Cold Air Partition Template Instructions Well it’s finally done. I’ve made up a template for a heat shield for anyone with a R33 GTS-t that is using a pod filter instead of the factory air box. This heat shield will reduce the amount of hot air being sucked into the pod filter from the engine. We all know that the colder we can get the intake air, the denser it is which means more horsepower for us. Especially on a turbo car. Below are hints and ideas to make your life a little easier when making and installing the cold air partition. Installing the partition is a fiddly job, it’s fairly straight forward, but patients is the key. Once you’ve downloaded the seven pictures of the template print them out on A4 paper. I’ve marked the corners of the A4 sheets so you can easily see where the edges of the sheets are just in case the pictures are that clear. Once printed, join the templates together at the corresponding numbers. Eg. 1 goes to 1, 2 goes to 2 etc. And sticky tape them together. If you don’t have a printer available to you, I can post photocopies of the template off to you. Please note that there are two templates, one is for the top and one is for the side. Once together I strongly recommend that you make another (one piece) template out of cardboard first to test fit it to your car. I also recommend that you make the smaller hole (for the intercooler to intake pipe) a bit bigger as this will help with the installation process. Note that the large hole is for a HKS pod filter, and if you don’t have a HKS pod filter the size of this hole may be different for you car. If you don’t have a HKS pod filter don’t worry, it’s easy to make the template WITHOUT cutting the hole for your filter, then install the cardboard template, and mark the hole that you need to run your pod filter. OK, so you’ve installed the cardboard template into your car (removing the pod filter, AFM, and intercooler to intake pipe), and it seems to fit good. Remember that around the edge of the partition will be a rubber seal (like the seal around window glass in the frames) to seal against the car body work, so take that into account when thinking about how it fits. Re-install the intercooler to intake pipe (running it through the partition which will be a fiddly job) then the AFM and then the pod filter. Does it still fit OK??? Double check that it all fits good cause once you’ve cut the metal for the partition it will be harder to make adjustments. A few adjustments you may want to make to the partition is to the top piece. If you take a look at the photo of mine you will see that the top part that folds down right near the front of the car doesn’t quiet go down far enough. I didn’t think about this when I did mine, but if you extend that by about 20mm you can seal it against the top support brace. Cause remember that hot air rises, so if you can make the pod filter breathe air from lower down it might help to keep air intake temps down too. The other (and I’m not sure if it is possible) is that on mine the bonnet just touches the box, which, after about 8 months has worn a slight bit of paint off of the underside of the bonnet. You could try and make it a little shorter if you like. I have no problems closing the bonnet at all, so it’s only just touching. But remember that when making adjustments the HKS pod filter is a very very tight fit once the partition is all screwed together, so you may not have a lot of room for adjustments – another reason why you should install a cardboard partition first. If all is good, head down to the metal shop and pick up a piece of 3-4mm aluminium. I’ve used Alubond or something called that !! that is two pieces of 1mm aluminium separated by 3mm of plastic/rubber. It has great heat shielding properties. Once cut (taking note of the pictures when to make the bends) install the partition. It will be harder than the cardboard one cause the cardboard was easy to bend while the aluminium is stiff. Most of the time will be spent on getting the intercooler to intake pipe back on. I found the best thing to do is take the rubber elbow joint off of the inner guard, put that onto the intercooler to intake pipe, then re-install the elbow onto the inner guard just because of the angle that you have to use. Another thing to do that will make your life easier is to rotate the round hose clamps around the pipe (both the inner guard one and the other side of the elbow) so once it’s all together you can still get to the clamps to tighten them up. Put the AFM back on, then the pod filter and tighten everything up. Remember to plug the AFM back in too !!!!! Then put the top on the partition, screw it all together and that’s it. Remember that even though the whole thing is very secure, you’ll still need to run a bracket from the AFM to the body work, this is a requirement for rego. I’m pretty sure I’ve covered everything that will make it easier for you, but if you need any advise feel free to email me on Jayson77@bigpond.com or just PM me on the forums on www.skylinesdownunder.com or www.skylinesaustralia.com Jayson Disclaimer: In some states it may be illegal to use a pod filter, or anything but the factory air box for that matter. So check with your State RTA office first.