1.5 ALMERA 2003 AIRBOX ON A K11 MICRA
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Hi!
Yes it will work. The airbox fits into the current throttle body. There is a litttle bit of faffing in matching up a bolt, and breathing tube from the engine back into the airbox. You will also need to lower / move the Carbon canister to have it sit flush.
You are effectively giving your engine more cold, pre-filtered air to draw on. The other benefit is the air-intake to the old airbox is very limted. So, a bigger airbox, with a bigger (wider) air intake pipe feeding it would give you better performance. ESPECIALLY, if you pair this with a nice performance Air Filter (e.g. Pipercross).
Personally, I've noticed the car is slightly more responsive when accelerating.
As a bonus, with the bigger airbox the car will also have a nice throaty little growl when accelerating
The almera airboxes are getting harder to find from what I can gather btw, but definitely worth doing for a cheeky £30 improvement
Shout if you need help installing.
Yes it will work. The airbox fits into the current throttle body. There is a litttle bit of faffing in matching up a bolt, and breathing tube from the engine back into the airbox. You will also need to lower / move the Carbon canister to have it sit flush.
You are effectively giving your engine more cold, pre-filtered air to draw on. The other benefit is the air-intake to the old airbox is very limted. So, a bigger airbox, with a bigger (wider) air intake pipe feeding it would give you better performance. ESPECIALLY, if you pair this with a nice performance Air Filter (e.g. Pipercross).
Personally, I've noticed the car is slightly more responsive when accelerating.
As a bonus, with the bigger airbox the car will also have a nice throaty little growl when accelerating
The almera airboxes are getting harder to find from what I can gather btw, but definitely worth doing for a cheeky £30 improvement
Shout if you need help installing.
Hi!
Yes it will work. The airbox fits into the current throttle body. There is a litttle bit of faffing in matching up a bolt, and breathing tube from the engine back into the airbox. You will also need to lower / move the Carbon canister to have it sit flush.
You are effectively giving your engine more cold, pre-filtered air to draw on. The other benefit is the air-intake to the old airbox is very limted. So, a bigger airbox, with a bigger (wider) air intake pipe feeding it would give you better performance. ESPECIALLY, if you pair this with a nice performance Air Filter (e.g. Pipercross).
Personally, I've noticed the car is slightly more responsive when accelerating.
As a bonus, with the bigger airbox the car will also have a nice throaty little growl when accelerating
The almera airboxes are getting harder to find from what I can gather btw, but definitely worth doing for a cheeky £30 improvement
Shout if you need help installing.
Hey, thanks for the reply. Some very useful info there. Just wasn't sure if the 1.5 air box would give the same performance as the popular GA16 setup. Thanks.
Hi mate, i'll try a picture. I haven't purchased yet; was just querying before i bought it to see would it fit/make any difference to performance. Thanks.
Ey up! Missed the 1.5 part.
It has to be from an N15 pre-2000 Almera - 1.4 or 1.6.
It should look like a 'longer' version of your current k11 airbox. See piccer:
Almera airbox is the bottom one:
https://www.micra.org.uk/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fuploads.tapatalk-cdn.com%2F20170614%2Fe6976ed72b0da91d9a1c13ef1e24a201.jpg&hash=1e566e81a8e88e1c5796585164c06a7e
It has to be from an N15 pre-2000 Almera - 1.4 or 1.6.
It should look like a 'longer' version of your current k11 airbox. See piccer:
Almera airbox is the bottom one:
https://www.micra.org.uk/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fuploads.tapatalk-cdn.com%2F20170614%2Fe6976ed72b0da91d9a1c13ef1e24a201.jpg&hash=1e566e81a8e88e1c5796585164c06a7e
It took me ages to find one. They go super quick on ebay apparently.
Found one on this site. I think it is a place for scrappys across europe to sell their stock. So mine came from lithuania in the end!!!
shop.euroimpex.lt
Found one on this site. I think it is a place for scrappys across europe to sell their stock. So mine came from lithuania in the end!!!
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Ive just put an N15 airbox in, had to lower the carbon filter, bodge a rockerbox pipe and make a bracket for 1 fixing bolt but quite easy to do.Hi!
Yes it will work. The airbox fits into the current throttle body. There is a litttle bit of faffing in matching up a bolt, and breathing tube from the engine back into the airbox. You will also need to lower / move the Carbon canister to have it sit flush.
You are effectively giving your engine more cold, pre-filtered air to draw on. The other benefit is the air-intake to the old airbox is very limted. So, a bigger airbox, with a bigger (wider) air intake pipe feeding it would give you better performance. ESPECIALLY, if you pair this with a nice performance Air Filter (e.g. Pipercross).
Personally, I've noticed the car is slightly more responsive when accelerating.
As a bonus, with the bigger airbox the car will also have a nice throaty little growl when accelerating
The almera airboxes are getting harder to find from what I can gather btw, but definitely worth doing for a cheeky £30 improvement
Shout if you need help installing.
Ive got the intake pipe that came with tbe airbox, can i utilise it as air intake in the K11 ?
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Is there a CAD file for these? We could look into getting them 3D-printed if they're getting hard to find now.
Yes they are quite hard to find these days, but i haven't seen or heard of a 3d printed version. So there probably isnt a file for that yet.
It would be easy enough to design an air box and print it, the question is, would it be financially viable. How much would be people be willing to spend? I don't think it would be enough.
I'd be up for it if its with my while.
