air intakes

[specmodeler]

anyone know how to make air intakes

[hirofkd]

Do you mean NACA type inlet opening or chimeny like one that sticks out?
Either way, you can make it with a sheet of styrene.

[weaponCIVIC]

i cut a part of the chrome parts holder out, heat it up and bend it. your on your own with the filter

[MR-2RaCeR]

For the air filter, u could use a spray can nozzle, and then use styrene pipes or the parts tree for the rest.

[Honoturtle]

Originally Posted by MR-2RaCeR

For the air filter, u could use a spray can nozzle, and then use styrene pipes or the parts tree for the rest.

That would be quite big, no?

[MR-2RaCeR]

Well yeah, but you could cut off some of it.

[EMAXX]

I like that idea above about using the chrome tree to make it. I might have to try that sometime. I've already made an exhaust, and a light bar out of the tree. lol

[specmodeler]

Originally Posted by MR-2RaCeR

For the air filter, u could use a spray can nozzle, and then use styrene pipes or the parts tree for the rest.

I tried the spray can nozzle but it is just to big and doesn't look realistic, maybe the toothpaste cap will work?

[MR-2RaCeR]

Maybe, all you really need is something with grooves going up and down.

[willimo]

Take a peice of styrene rod (or tube) the diameter you want your filter to be. 3/16 should be about right, I'd guess without a ruler in my hand. Take a saw, a razor saw, but one with teeth about 1/16 or so OC, and press it against the styrene tube/rod as if you were going to cut it. Then run the blade down the length of the tube/rod, so that the teeth in the blade scribe parallel grooves the length of the tube. Do this a few times around the tube until it has grooves all the way around. It make take a few tries to get it to go straight. Ideally, you can do a considerable length of tube like that, and cut off a bit for each intake you make. Then cut a round peice of styrene (if you can find a hole punch the correct diameter, that will make it much easier) to glue to either end of the filter, to simulate the plastic cap on either end. Then use styrene rod (1/8 inch or so, guessing again) or sprue or whatever as the intake tubing. You can bend the tube over a candle or by heating it in boiling water (be careful, I have plenty of burns from bending styrene).

This way you can make the filter whatever size you want, and won't be limited to using the enormous spray nozzle or even bigger toothpaste cap. It's easy too, and you can make several dozen all at once, throw them in your parts box and grab them as you need them. Thats probably the most economical, time and money wise, way to do it, too. Anyway, have fun!

[Jurva]

Do you guys have pictures of your scratch build airfilters?