I spent pretty much all day yesterday and up til now today working on this contraption. The objective was to direct water out of the car and as an added benefit, direct air where it's most needed in the car. I reckon by this time tomorrow, I am officially out of excuses to not wash it.
The CAD piece now remade in aluminum. All aluminum construction (aluminum rivets). Guaranteed to leak like a sieve. (no TIG machine)
Aluminum box detail shots
Mock-up of rain flys to keep water out of vents
Glued up with polyurethane adhesive. Should provide strength to hold it all together and seal it up nicely. If this fails, I will be seriously unhappy and then probably move on to windshield adhesive...which is phenomenally sticky and runny and messy, but always holds.
Rain flys now in aluminum. Riveted down. Sealed with polyurethane to prevent water intrusion.
In situ. Drain is made from a grommet I had laying around, some plastic hose connectors, and some clear tube. (Every single part of this air box is stuff I had laying around. ZERO trips to the store.)
I made these little guys from some leftover rain fly material and some hose clamps Porsche left in my car where I think they intended for there to be heater hoses. Hoses were not received with car. Maybe they dried up and blew away, maybe they were removed. 50:50
SCEET hoses added and clamped into place and now I have 'direct drive AC'.
Hoses directed where needed most. On the boys.
Now if we can convince Bryan and Tony to make up some Kool'n Ducts that have round 60mm inlets, I'd be willing to give those a shot and maybe class up the interior of this hog a little.