Nick Stonawski said:
Starscream5000- the airbox idea is becoming a great idea the more i think about it. only thing is it would be more of a fiberglass/CF cover for the intake itself. to seperate heat form the intake and motor. making an intake out of fiberglass/CF is not very practical, due to the fact that one extra turn of a clamp on the fiberglass/cf inlet could cause it to crack! more ideas here though are appreciated.
Okay, How about this: on the opening of the box where the 4" pipe would bolt to, instead of having a round, 4" section of fiberglass jutting out for the pipe to be clamped to, have a short section of actual 4" pipe fixed into the fiberglass box as a single piece with the rest of the design.
Think of the short section 4" pipe (or whatever else you could come up with that would be 4", round, and able to be clamped down hard) with a square section, or something like that on the end, so you could put the FG epoxy on it to fixate it to the rest of the box.
There would also have to be a front piece to the box, like a sill to hold the square/rectangular air filter against the rest of the box, making a seal to only allow air to flow through the air filter itself. Think of this: a sill going all the way around the front of the box, in the shape of an "L", the longer part would push the air filter seal against the rim of the box. The bottom of the box could have like 3 slits in it to fit 3 little legs into it, which would be on the sill, the top portion of the box would need some type of piece on it that would accept a screw to tighten the sill to the rest of the box and make an air tight seal.