Anyone done a DIY air filter on a VAN?

[dieselcrawler]

I pulled the dog box off today for a few minutes. There seems to be 2 pc of rubber hose connecting the air filter housing to the turbo, with the baffle thingy in the middle. If removing the baffle won't hurt anything, I think I could remove every thing from it to the air filter housing, and replace it with a filter setup like you're working on, and then fab my own "t" and have the long part extend all the way to where the baffle housing was removed, directly into the last rubber tube before the turbo. It looks like it would have to be shaped to fit, but a few feed of 4" muffler pipe should do the trick, along with a cut off disk in the grinder, and a mig welder.... I can make it one piece, "t" and all...
Greg

[rpm-inc]

Maybe your van doesn't have a resonator? It is a black plastic square box. I think what you are looking at is the ccv which you can't remove unless you do the ccv mod.

[rpm-inc]

Finally got some time to work on this air filter set up. Not done yet, but here are 2 pics of the intake piping.

[rpm-inc]

The air filters are in! I can definitely hear the turbo sucking air! I also gained 2-3 lbs of boost. In the 120 race setting, from 50-70 mph, I am now seeing 33lbs! Hopefully I can get a mpg out of it as well?