Deckplate mod with a twist ..

[Shawn5800]

Just wanted to hear your opinion on this deckplate mod twist im thinking of doing.

The typical deckplate mod uses a plate that you must manually screw into a flange mounted on the airbox. I decided that i wanted to make this cabin operational.

In short, sliding door guides with an aluminum door mounted to my airbox. Underneath the door reveals a 4x4 square hole to suck air into the intake. The door seals completely from water using rubber weather seal.

The door is opened up using a actuator that i reversed to use vacuum. There is a supply line going up into my cab underneath the steering column which supplyies a toggle vacuum switch to open vacuum to the actuator or not.

Once vacuum is applied the actuator pulls the door open and allows airflow, once the switch is closed a spring mounted on the opposite side of the box pulls it back to sealed position.


Sound cool or like to much work? I figured 1/4 poly lines with some push to connect fittings would work great.

Just something i was pondering lately.

 

[Whackmaster]

Sounds like a lot of work to me...Do it and take lots of pic's..Good luck.

 

[4-Ripcord]

Not worth the effort, popping the hood and screwing in the deckplate takes like 15 seconds.

 

[Clownmeat]

I think the deckplate mod isn't even worth the time. When I had the stock airbox I just popped the lid off, you get a nice big hole and can snap the lid back on if you're going through water or whatever.

 

[4-Ripcord]

The pins on the lid is part of what holds the filter in place. So opening the lid is not very wise..

 

[Clownmeat]

The pins on the lid is part of what holds the filter in place. So opening the lid is not very wise..

And I made a little thing to hold the air filter back tight and sealed, forgot to add that.

 

[4-Ripcord]

And I made a little thing to hold the air filter back tight and sealed, forgot to add that.

Oh I see.

 

[bolantej]

too complicated.

 

[Running4life]

Sounds creative...
I had the deck plate mod on my tacoma (damn I miss that truck) and my 98 Runner but on this one I did elbow delete mod and removed the silencer mod. i feel those two have created more bottom end useable power/torque/throttle response. Just a thought.

 

[Riggity]

For the minimal gains that I saw, I'm not even sure the deck plate was worth it.

 

[BeachWagon]

I think it would be a lot of work for not much gain.... that being said, I would love to see it. It could be one of those things that someone else improves on later to make better through several re-incarnations and just something to brag about. Think about driving down the road nice and chill and pulling it open to hear the sound it makes!!:reddance:

 

[Brentif]

Has anyone ever put a deck plate modded vehicle on a dyno? After spending many long nights around dynos I have found that "butt dynos" are often very wrong. My buddy had a Scion XB with all the bolt ons (intake, header, exhauset, SAFC, ground wires) and he swore that it should add up to a realistic 15 HP at the wheels. The advertised gains supposedly added up to like 25 HP. We had run a base case of the same car a month or so earlier with the same basic weather and conditions so I know it was mostly accurate. His total gain......4 horsepower at the wheels, or approxamatley 6 or 7 at the crank. 4 horspower for $2500.

This being said I dont see opening up a hole into the hot engine compartment and using the same filter adding much more than noise. I could be wrong, just my $0.02. I would love for someone to show me some numbers if they got em.

 

[hungryeddy]

i was thinking about putting an opening and twist thing kinda like the top of a charcoal grill... i'm not sure what its called but its used to let the smoke out. you twist it to close it, and twist the other way to open it... i only thought of this so i don't have to worry about loosing the deckplate cover... not really to be able to open the hole from the cab...

 

[Shawn5800]

It was more of something i was going to do as a project for my engineering class which is why i brought it up to you all. If someone liked the idea then they could use it. Otherwise its not practical, atleast not for the little gains you will receive.

 

[awdjunkies]

Sounds more like a NOS button to me. But yeah would be cool to see pics/write up.