Hi guys, I dint know if this will help but i spent hours trying to find the right inlet hose for my 2litre type 4. The size you want is 63mm ID and it runs up to the funny little bracket next to the paint lid thingy in the engine bay, around the corner to the next bracket (I used zip ties to fasten the pipe on) and then poke it up to the fresh air grille void beside the battery. This means that your engine should suck nice cool air from the grille instead of stinking hot engine bay air, thus increasing efficiency. These people are on ebay (hope the link works!) and the product is superb because the pipe is heat proof and bends exactly as required, it is cheap and they have lightning fast delivery. 1 metre is plenty. Hope this helps. PS, I dint think the link works, so search on AP motorstore cold air flexible ducting. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Other-Heating-Cooling-Air-/20598/i.html[/
No need to bother. The top of the engine (if all the tin is in place) should always be nice and cool. If it needed a separate intake, VW would have installed one
I confused! The brackets to take the pipe are the genuine vw article and are tailor made for the inlet pipe. The pipes often goes missing tho. I dint know about you, but theres nothing particularly cool in my engine bay (and yes all my tinware and seals are intact!) It always gets stinking hot (but not as hot as the underside obviously) I know engines generally like cool air, that is why intercoolers etc were invented!
pictures of what you mean may explain more, as said above with all tin in place the temp in the top of the engine (the bay if you will) is loads cooler than under the van, the ram air through the ducts increases this i can't recall seeing a vw approved device to aid it? i'm interested though so pop up a pic of the thing you mean.
This pic shows the bracket. One to the right of the paint lid thingy and you can see the second around the corner higher, and leading towards the vent. They are curved shaped to take the pipe and allow it to be secured with zip tie or similar. I will give you a pic of the pipe fitted if you want, but I ha vent taken one yet!
do you mean that your intake pipe was completely missing from the air box? so your engine would draw air from above the bell housing and not from the rear of the engine bay
i see the brackets but i can't recall the pipe thing, i've not seen my engine bay so uncluttered as there are loads of pipes and crap in the way from the californian smog reducing crap, i'm sure someone will know more but it never ceases to amaze me the little differences they all have.
oh ok, i've never seen that, mine has a "trumpet" ait intake like most old cars had which points rearwards to the back of the van.
Nice engine assie, mine looks very similar and has the same airbox I think. When I got my van it had no pipe as does just draw the air from the engine bay. Apparently loads of vans are like this, but A) it made no sense for an engine to draw hot air when most cars draw cold, and B) I was intruioged by the curved brackets. It was only when I saw a scrapper with the pipe fitted (with nice thick rubber loops that it made sense to me why the brackets were there! I do know that cool air = greater efficiency on most engines. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9Fi-n7hV6aU/T47BtEO-PSI/AAAAAAAAA-A/GxhP65u5ucI/s640/nuts%25202012%2520005.JPG?gl=GB
Cheers guys (a good one this!) I cant see that the brackets can be for anything other than the air filter inlet pipe. Like I say they are curved (to accomodate the pipe) they are definately origional and are identical. They are not for the air filter (which is centrally mounted in the standard position, as the phots show) and the diagnostics plug is on its origional bracket to the right of the engine lid as you open it. I do believe that my engine is probably cooling normally, but it's still not a place I would choose to keep my beers cold.... especially in traffic!!
Im sure my 1700 had the pipe from air filter to that bracket before i changed to dells , i guess its up there out the way to stop the rubbish getting sucked in ...
