cheap mod: blower intake filter screen

[abatzis2@hotmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

or you can just tape some filter material over the intake. ghetto, but 
effective. i couldn't figure out why this rocco was so much worse about that 
than the old one. turns out it's missing the plastic grating beneath the 
vents on the hood, so larger debris can get through the hood vents.

-Michael Abatzis
Hotlanta! GA-->Soon to be New Orleans!
1988 Scirocco 2L 16v RIP-->parting, finally taking orders: 
www.learnlink.emory.edu/~mabatzi/mikes_page1.html
1987 Scirocco 2L 16v...




>From: "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: cheap mod: blower intake filter screen
>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:12:49 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Okay, so this might not appeal to anyone else, but I've been having a lot
>of trouble lately with crap getting in my rain tray and blowing in to my
>eyes while I'm driving. This is not only annoying, it's dangerous.
>Specifically there's this blooming tree where I frequently park and no
>matter what season it is it just craps little brown or white things
>everywhere.
>
>When I get in the car and turn on the blower, I get a faceful of tree
>dandruff, and it gets all over my interior, making vacuuming it all up
>later on an annoying chore. Also big leaves get sucked in somehow and I
>have had to pick them out piece by piece from the inside of my air vents
>because they start resonating in the air stream and making an annoying
>bzzzz noise.
>
>So last weekend my frustration boiled over and I tracked down some screen
>door material and cut out a 125mm x 227mm rectangle of it. Then I cut some
>5/16" wide by 120mm long by ~2mm thick "bars" of plastic, taped them to
>the end of the screen door material and rolled them over a couple times so
>that friction would be holding the screen in place rather than the weak
>tape.
>
>I tucked the upper end under the lip between two halves of the blower box
>and fastened the lower one in place by poking small zip ties through the
>mesh material in strategically placed holes and tightening them around a
>large zip tie "chin strap" that I ran around the blower housing.
>
>Here's a photo so you can try to make sense of my description:
>
>http://students.washington.edu/treed2/screen.jpg
>
>It's not "pretty" but it gets the job done. Airflow isn't noticably
>reduced, which was one of my concerns. It's not a 100% seal, either.. but
>who cares. I'm just trying to keep sesame seed sized and larger debris out
>of my ventilation system, I don't need an electrostatic filter..
>
>I'm also thinking about putting some sort of finer screen over the
>openings in the hood, since that seems to be where the crap that gets
>sucked in is originating from.
>
>Anyway, just a minor thing.. but I thought someone else might be
>interested for safety reasons. "Ow! My eye!"
>
>-Toby
>
>
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