fitting of jp4 covers

1. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #1 5th December 2013, 21:01

   How many people have fitted these to the standard engine bay? I want to fit mine at the weekend and want to know what people did with the breather pipes ie the big one that somehow needs to be connected to the air box and the little pipe that ideally wants to go to tb
   
   Been told a good easy way to sort the little breather is to cut it off and plug the hole and then somehow plug the little hole in tb if so what have people used? Or is bit of flexible pipe better to connect it up properly?
   
   And secondly I would assume I can just cut the big breather off under the coilpack cover so its hidden and leave the connection on the air box open (assuming the connection is.pre airfilter ie so it doesn't matter if it sucks in air
2. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #2 5th December 2013, 21:09

   Just looked.at my engine bay and I don't even have the little pipe that connects.the camcover to the tb so that hole in the tb has been left open for some time with no apparent issues also the out let on the air box points down and the jp4 breather points upwards so they should be fairly easy to connect up via a joiner of some kind
3. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #3 5th December 2013, 21:19

   Think I've figured it help via gav on fb showing me a pic looks like a length of vacuum hose is needed for the little breather and the big breather can be inserted in to the rubber U on the airbox after a bit of chopping
   
   Anyone no of any shops that sell appropriate vacuum piping?
4. user_26373 Established Member Joined: Aug 2008 Lancaster Posts: 1532 JP4 AX

   #4 5th December 2013, 21:31

   I ran mine for a few weeks without any breather piping at all (yol0)
   Yes the idling was high but the car ran fine fuel wise etc. I now have the breather piping on and one of those crappy filters cable tied on the end. Gav has seen it and laughed
5. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #5 5th December 2013, 21:48

   well it looks like i just need to get a length of of vacuum hose from some where and it should all be fine im like you im not too fussed about not having everything wired up 100% but if i can do it then i think i will want this vts to look oem, deffo cant be doing with little breather fitler cable tied on
6. Tom5190 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Sep 2007 Someones Bumhole Posts: 5721 Mk2 16v Desire

   #6 5th December 2013, 22:46

   lmao at this thread, you started it asking for help and you've replied with all the answers! ha
7. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #7 5th December 2013, 23:37

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by Tom5190 lmao at this thread, you started it asking for help and you've replied with all the answers! ha

   well tbf gav pointed me in the right direction from looking at the thread jsut gave me the answers outside of the thread lol

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8. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #8 7th December 2013, 19:50

   just incase any one is interested or searches for this in the future few pics
   old dirty j4 covers
   
   new jp4
   
   i cut the rubber u and the jp4 breather down so they could slot in to each other and i cut the smaller pipe down just waiting on a piece of vacuum hose to connect it to the t/b
   
9. user_11460 Super Moderator Joined: Aug 2006 Staffs Posts: 3778 207 HDi GT

   #9 9th December 2013, 19:39

   I used a 16mm ID silicon elbow for the large one (cut to size)
   http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...E:L:OC:GB:3160
   
   And 8mm ID silicon hose for the smaller one.
   This should really be swapped for some 7mm or possibly 6mm at some point
   
   
   
10. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

    #10 9th December 2013, 21:51

    cheers for that very handy knowing the sizes, i was wondering what ID i needed for the smaller pipe, if i had a fiver buring a hole in my pocket id go for the black 16mm ID hose but im happy with how mine is at the mo, its in very tight