After searching alot on these forums, a real conclusion wasnt found. Some said in order to run a pod, you need to by the oval shaped one, as apparantly a round pod causes swirling air, and disruputs the maf. Others said a round pod was fine.

Well, I decided to find out myself. I went down to Repco and bought a 4.5inch apadtor. I then checked to see if this covered any holes on the intake that shouldnt be covered up. The apadtor was good.

Next I added a redline pod filter, size 4.5inchs.

Took the car for a spin, and it worked fine, no issues down low, or up high. Car runs just as good as it did with the stock filter.

So there you go, its possible to run a round pod with an adaptor and have no maf issues. Just by the correct size adaptor, and, the correct size pod.

All up this cost me about $80, and im happy with the results.

A lot of people on here haven't even bothered changing their intakes, and will slam pod filters because that's what they've heard other people say. I've run two different kinds of pod filters on a third gen - and the only screwup was the adaptor sizing cutting off some required holes, fix that, fix the problem.

I've run three different pods on the Astron engine, all three worked just fine, Oval, 6" neck and 3" neck. People complain about turbulence, but they must be doing something wrong.

Please keep in mind when you install your pod filter to include some sort of heat shielding and Cold Air ducting so you don't suffer from hotter intake temperatures.

I believe it was a falicy deliberately fabricated by a company that was to essentially spook people into buying the $180 Mitsubishi MAF K&N pod and adapter - despite no one actually recording the bracket supplied coming close to fitting properly :doubt:

My 5c until conclusively proven otherwise.

After searching alot on these forums, a real conclusion wasnt found. Some said in order to run a pod, you need to by the oval shaped one, as apparantly a round pod causes swirling air, and disruputs the maf. Others said a round pod was fine.

Well, I decided to find out myself. I went down to Repco and bought a 4.5inch apadtor. I then checked to see if this covered any holes on the intake that shouldnt be covered up. The apadtor was good.

Next I added a redline pod filter, size 4.5inchs.

Took the car for a spin, and it worked fine, no issues down low, or up high. Car runs just as good as it did with the stock filter.

So there you go, its possible to run a round pod with an adaptor and have no maf issues. Just by the correct size adaptor, and, the correct size pod.

All up this cost me about $80, and im happy with the results.

As mentioned above the key is the adaptor used. Round or oval will work so long as you dont cover over the honeycomb stuff on the AFM. Good work ar3nbe this topic can now be put to bed.

Regards

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Thats right, if the mesh is obstructed the vortices aren't generated correctly and then the bad things happen.

Might be worth knocking out a few adapters for common sized pods-to-maf opening :think:

already workin on that Ian. :D

Good work ar3nbe this topic can now be put to bed.

Regards


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already workin on that Ian. :D

At your muff shop lol

As mentioned above the key is the adaptor used. Round or oval will work so long as you dont cover over the honeycomb stuff on the AFM. Good work ar3nbe this topic can now be put to bed.

RegardsGood shizzle, glad I searched for more info :D

does these pod filters actually do anything for your cars,
fuel economy, what performance (if so how much) and what an $80 pod n connecter from repco does the trick

i have a round pod filter running on my TH sport. preformance wise i dont think its done anything good(specially in the hot days notice a little less power do to engine heat soak) but boy it does give a nice intake noise... ha ha

Thats right, if the mesh is obstructed the vortices aren't generated correctly and then the bad things happen.

Have you ever tried running the donk without the honeycomb mesh? Some FI non-Magnas provide increased power when the obstruction is moved. Would be interesting to try hehe.

BTW, why use pod if using std airbox? IMO, pod is only relevant if using no airbox but direct pipe. Use K&N panel in std airbox ok.