Drilled airbox

[AlanG]

Was a bit bored today and my mate popped round with his n/a 850 sporting a drilled airbox. Tried it on mine to see how it would sound but no difference whatsoever. Have a K&N panel in mine but even so,I thought there would be some sort of induction sound...........

[T5arrrgghh]

can you not hear the turbo more? spooling and either whooshing or chattering (i know its stalling but years of calling it that take time to overcome!)

i have a couple of holes well less than ten anyway and mine makes a great noise but hey i am still a kid inside so.....

i can guarantee you will have woken at least one person who will make the statement that volvo spent the gdp of a large country designing the airbox so leave it alone.

[AlanG]

Mine is original and back where it should be,just thought it odd that it made no difference.

[p fandango]

Mine is original and back where it should be,just thought it odd that it made no difference.

have you still got all the sound deadening under the bonnet, that might of made the difference less noticable

[callyuk]

i dont see the point in this at all surley all you are doing is allowing more hot air into what used to be a sealed unit ducting cold air straight from outside

[T5arrrgghh]

i dont see the point in this at all surley all you are doing is allowing more hot air into what used to be a sealed unit ducting cold air straight from outside

hahaha told ya....

[AlanG]

Was only a question............

[AlanG]

hahaha told ya....

[callyuk]

hahaha told ya....

no no no i wasnt trying to say that at all i cant say that as i dont have the airbox myself just thought it would be better to fit a decent aftermarket induction kit with proper heat sheilding and preferably sealed air feed pipe direct into filter rather than boring holes in the origanal box hence allowing more heat soak from the engine.

[T5arrrgghh]

too true but then which one... is the bsr any good?

[AlanG]

can you not hear the turbo more? spooling and either whooshing or chattering (i know its stalling but years of calling it that take time to overcome!)

i have a couple of holes well less than ten anyway and mine makes a great noise but hey i am still a kid inside so.....

i can guarantee you will have woken at least one person who will make the statement that volvo spent the gdp of a large country designing the airbox so leave it alone.

Nothing mate,the damned thing is silent!!

[Torch S70R]

after the remap my turbo is much louder when spooling up (in a good way)
r u running std recirc valve?

[AlanG]

You mean bcs? All standard bud.

[Torch S70R]

is that the 15g turbo on there ?

[AlanG]

It's standard so I expect it will be.

[ahhpigsy]

I had a drilled box on mine, was like it when I bought it. It was heavily drilled and did sound good but the heat soak was so bad it would stall if stuck in traffic say on a motorway after hoofing it, sealed it all up and runs perfect now. It's a trade off!

[Big Pete]

I have BSR induction kit and sounds amazing!

[woz]

I would love to have a drilled airbox, but since it would make my car go SLOWER I wont bother thanks, regardless of how much Volvo spent on designing it or how litte it costs to get my leccy drill out.
W

[p fandango]

I would love to have a drilled airbox, but since it would make my car go SLOWER I wont bother thanks, regardless of how much Volvo spent on designing it or how litte it costs to get my leccy drill out.
W

i find it pretty amusing that people seem to think the standard intake/airbox must be the best "because if its good enough for Volvo to fit it then it must be good", yet seem quite happy to spend money wiping over Volvo's hardwork/expertise when it comes to the engine management. I'll admit its a pretty good system compared to alot of standard intakes i've seen, but think it can easily be better'd

[yellowt5r]

in what way can it be made better?, performane panel filter installed into the standard box is just as good if not better than any other set up