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by **mycoolcar** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:12 pm

Ok, so today i got bored and decided to play around with the air filter on my car.
I have a digital camera but its not here right now and wont be back for a while so i found another picuture of my engine thanks to google.

The car is a 92 Corolla. 1300cc engine, 12 valve, 2E vairant.
Body shape is hatch if that means anything, for pic of actual car follow link in sig.

Any way, theres a big round thing on top of the engine which i figure must be something to do with air intake as its connected to vairous ammounts of piping that goes down to infront of the (when in drivers seat) right hand head light. So i look at all this piping and figure if i take some of it off it will be less restrictive and allow more air in, much like a pod but without it being a pod.
So i disconnected the bottom half of the piping and went for a drive. It drove fine, seemed to go faster, but thats proably a phylogical thing.

Now what im wondering, is it ok to leave it like this?
The piping that i disconnected was just pipes, and on the connected side of the piping theres a bit that looks like it really needs to stay, its got hoses and stuff like that comming out of it.

Ill expalin a bit of the pic, the red is where its been disconnected from the rest of the piping that goes down to infront of the right hand head light.
The yellow is the bit that looks like it really should stay there because its got hoses comming out of it (but they arnt shown in the pic)
The blue bit is the large circle thing that i mentioned earlier in my post, is it a carby? Im really confused as to what its for and what it does. Please tell me what its for

Thats all i have to ask for now, just trying to find out stuff about my car.

Thanks

by **Adamal** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:34 pm

That'll be a carby engine, yes.

The big round thing on top is what houses your air filter. You can take the top off that air filter and you'll get a real good induction sound, but its REALLY not recommended if you value your car!

by **jacko** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:53 pm

Haha hardcase. Yeh your carb is in the middle of the big round thing, The yellow thing is from memory the hot air intake (for cold mornings) but it doesnt do shitall anyway.

I wouldnt recommend pulling lines off. You might make a mess if you pull ya breather line or something off, and you wont get any extra boogie.

by **TotemoAW11** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:57 pm

oi yo, do this:
take off the top air filter cover and all the ducting
leave the actual circle filter in place and cut out a plate of steel/aluminium and bolt that to the top of the filter.

Just like what they have on the v8s yea yea :twisted:

now you can have the dope induction noise and not suck in heaps of crap, blang blang. :wink:

o o dont forget to polish the steel cover so its chromey as to impress the ladies! :wink:

by **mycoolcar** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:27 pm

I thought they stopped prodicing carby engines in the early 80's... guess i was wrong.

Should i put sugar into it?

by **jacko** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:42 pm

Im with ya TotemoAW11 - But you should paint the steel bit harlequin. and watch the 2e really pull.

Carina AA63 · by **kingcorolla** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:43 pm

haha, fresh.
yea just undo the clips and the wingnut on the top and whip it off. just dont touch hoses UNDERNEATH the filter housing. (big round thing) and if you really want to be fancy and put an aftrmarket filter on, just measure the diameter ov the carb neck and go to repco and get a ranflow filter.

but whipping the filter off wont harm a 2e, go for it.

but remember, filter or not, its still a 2e.. :lol:

by **mycoolcar** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:21 pm

:D

Removed the cover for the carby and stuck the wing nut back on, didnt touch the shit under it because i could smell petrol when i took it off.
Went for a drive and farkk... it sounds mint now.

I think ill leave it like that for a while and see what happens. should be interisting.

Yeah, its a 2E, but im only 17 and ive only been in one turbo car, so untill im 25, its n/a power all the way!!

I like carby's now.... whats a nice car i can get for under 6k with a carby engine?

by **fuel** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:36 pm

I've got the same issue, I have an '89 Galant which is also carby, and has the same filter setup. I was thinking of removing the whole 'fry pan' filter and just fabricate some ducting to the front of the engine bay with a pod filter on the end. Or I was going to get a ramflo filter and just stick it in place of the fry pan, but then all it's going to do is suck in warm air from the engine bay.

by **macabre** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:55 pm

fuel wrote:I've got the same issue, I have an '89 Galant which is also carby, and has the same filter setup. I was thinking of removing the whole 'fry pan' filter and just fabricate some ducting to the front of the engine bay with a pod filter on the end. Or I was going to get a ramflo filter and just stick it in place of the fry pan, but then all it's going to do is suck in warm air from the engine bay.

just get a new standard filter and get some more hose from a wreckers or something and run that to the front of the engine bay, thats what i did on my old sigma. so it sucked in cold air from the front worked ok i think

by **mycoolcar** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:52 pm

OK, i have another question. Rather than creating another thread ill just post it here.

I went to the petrol station after notiing my tires had a bit of a bulge in them and figured they needed pumping up.
So i get to the air pump and go to read the tire for the pressure to pump it up to (this is the frist time ive pumped up my tires, done it on other cars that have the pressue on the tire)
Problem was there was no pressure written on the tire, so rather than pumping them up i left them.
So i need to know what i should pump them up to.
The tires are "Kelly 70 175/70 R13 82s"

Now from memory is the 175 the width? 70 the someting to do with the tread depth and R13 means its 13"
But whats the "82s" at the end there for?

oh, and the removal of the carby cover is great, it seems to have more torque so going from 50-100k up hill is a lot less painful.

by **Lloyd** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:15 pm

Most tyres you can just to do to 30psi

As for the numbers, 175/70/R13
175 is the tyre width in mm
70 is the sidewall profile (tyre profile is 70% the width of the tyre)
R13 means its a 13 inch rim (I think the R means its a radial)

by **mycoolcar** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:41 pm

Ok cool, thanks.
Anyone know what the "82s" at the end is for? Possibly a model number or something like that?

by **Pelo** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:50 pm

82 is the load index, how much weight a tyre can carry. 82 is 475kgs (per tyre).
The S is the speed rating. S means the tyre can handle a maximum safe speed of 180kph before overheating and possibly disintergrating!

Removing your airfilter is NOT recommended as you might "suck in dirt off the track" :wink:

Engines like clean air. I admit to doing it though!

by **mycoolcar** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:07 pm

Pelo wrote:82 is the load index, how much weight a tyre can carry. 82 is 475kgs (per tyre).
The S is the speed rating. S means the tyre can handle a maximum safe speed of 180kph before overheating and possibly disintergrating!

Removing your airfilter is NOT recommended as you might "suck in dirt off the track" Engines like clean air. I admit to doing it though!

Ah, ok thanks that makes sense.

The air filter is still there, just the fry pan type ducting around the filter is not. I used the wing nut that was holding the fry pan type thing on to hold the filter down.
So it is still getting filtered air, but the air comes from in the engine bay rather then through the vairous ducting from behind the right hand head light.

by **Voodoo** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:01 pm

just cut a hole on ya bonnet and raise ya filter out the hole

by **mycoolcar** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:22 pm

Maybe get a scoop like on the levins and stick that on?

Or one of those huge ass air intakes like on supercharged V8's
That could be.... interisting but i think the olds would notice and get pissed off (they pay for insurance and petrol).

Carina AA63 · by **kingcorolla** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:28 pm

mycoolcar wrote:Maybe get a scoop like on the levins and stick that on?

Or one of those huge ass air intakes like on supercharged V8's
That could be.... interisting but i think the olds would notice and get pissed off (they pay for insurance and petrol).