Have been wanting to relocate my MAF/Filter into the inner fender for awhile to take advantage of the cool air there. Didn't want to go to a cold-air kit as I still wanted to incorporate my Pro-M 77 housing and not mess with one of the Bullet MAF etc...
Current setup was just the Pro-M 77 off the stock intake tract in the engine bay. This was easiest and functional, but sucked up all the hot-air from the engine. This pic shows how it was:
I was contemplating doing one of the "Home Depot" cold air/ram air setups, but I didn't really want to mess with all trouble (little did I know it would've been easier
Didn't want to pay the $200+ for one of Andersons NA powerpipes either. I would've loved to have a Morpheus, but we all know that story as he is no longer in business.
So fast forward to the other weekend and I'm walking around the pits at WFC. I see a black 94-95 GT running open comp. I go over and talk to the guy. Nice car, believe it ran low 11's etc.. Anyways, over by his trailer, he has a box with what looks to be a cold-air kit. After closer inspection, it is a Brand New Morphues NA Powerpipe for 94-95 cars. He said it was an extra one and was trying to get rid of it. Needless to say I talked him letting it go for a very nice price. So low of a price I feel ashamed to say...roughly around 1/4 the price of a new Anderson pipe
So I figure it'd be a simple install, no more than an hour. Well...that turned into a few days of messing with it.
Day One: Discovered that one of the fittings wouldn't work since the Pro-M has such a huge flange opening. I had to scour the plumbing sections of my local hardware stores to find the correct rubber reducer coupler, which luckily I found.
Day Two: Removed the inner fender and fabbed up the pipe from the TB to the fender. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves below:
So yeah...it was a little "Big". I think a shorty style MAF would of worked perfect, or else a smaller filter, but this is what I was stuck with, so I had to make it work. Don't ask me how I did it, but a few hours of cursing, bending, pushing, fabbing, etc...and she's nice and snug in that fender. Hangs down pretty low too which grabs all that nice cold air.
Day 3: Went to hook everythign up and realized the MAF Harness, wasn't long enough since it is hooked up with the ACT harness. One of them had to be extended. While I was messing with all these wires, I decided to relocate a bunch of them into the fender
So the next step was to mess with cutting and splicing the ACT harness so it could hook up in its bung near the throttle body.
To make a long story short, I got it all hooked up and it works pretty darn good. I took the car out and it was about 80 degrees out. Could of been my imagination after all the work, but the thing felt like it was pulling harder by the SOTP meter. Too bad I won't get a before and after comparison at the track, but I should have numbers by next weekend if the weather holds up.
Here's some pics of the engine bay now. It's not the cleanest and I still need to organize some stuff, but you get the idea.
The Morphues pipe is nice, and the coating is great. I would make the ACT bung threaded instead of a rubber grommet and the air tubing hookup could be better, but over all...definetly worth the money.
Hopefully some other company can step up and start making these at a price less than the arm and leg Anderson wants.
Jeremy
Current setup was just the Pro-M 77 off the stock intake tract in the engine bay. This was easiest and functional, but sucked up all the hot-air from the engine. This pic shows how it was:
I was contemplating doing one of the "Home Depot" cold air/ram air setups, but I didn't really want to mess with all trouble (little did I know it would've been easier
Didn't want to pay the $200+ for one of Andersons NA powerpipes either. I would've loved to have a Morpheus, but we all know that story as he is no longer in business.
So fast forward to the other weekend and I'm walking around the pits at WFC. I see a black 94-95 GT running open comp. I go over and talk to the guy. Nice car, believe it ran low 11's etc.. Anyways, over by his trailer, he has a box with what looks to be a cold-air kit. After closer inspection, it is a Brand New Morphues NA Powerpipe for 94-95 cars. He said it was an extra one and was trying to get rid of it. Needless to say I talked him letting it go for a very nice price. So low of a price I feel ashamed to say...roughly around 1/4 the price of a new Anderson pipe
So I figure it'd be a simple install, no more than an hour. Well...that turned into a few days of messing with it.
Day One: Discovered that one of the fittings wouldn't work since the Pro-M has such a huge flange opening. I had to scour the plumbing sections of my local hardware stores to find the correct rubber reducer coupler, which luckily I found.
Day Two: Removed the inner fender and fabbed up the pipe from the TB to the fender. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves below:
So yeah...it was a little "Big". I think a shorty style MAF would of worked perfect, or else a smaller filter, but this is what I was stuck with, so I had to make it work. Don't ask me how I did it, but a few hours of cursing, bending, pushing, fabbing, etc...and she's nice and snug in that fender. Hangs down pretty low too which grabs all that nice cold air.
Day 3: Went to hook everythign up and realized the MAF Harness, wasn't long enough since it is hooked up with the ACT harness. One of them had to be extended. While I was messing with all these wires, I decided to relocate a bunch of them into the fender
So the next step was to mess with cutting and splicing the ACT harness so it could hook up in its bung near the throttle body.
To make a long story short, I got it all hooked up and it works pretty darn good. I took the car out and it was about 80 degrees out. Could of been my imagination after all the work, but the thing felt like it was pulling harder by the SOTP meter. Too bad I won't get a before and after comparison at the track, but I should have numbers by next weekend if the weather holds up.
Here's some pics of the engine bay now. It's not the cleanest and I still need to organize some stuff, but you get the idea.
The Morphues pipe is nice, and the coating is great. I would make the ACT bung threaded instead of a rubber grommet and the air tubing hookup could be better, but over all...definetly worth the money.
Hopefully some other company can step up and start making these at a price less than the arm and leg Anderson wants.
Jeremy