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740 turbo air filter housing 700 1992

Trying to find some info to restore an air filter box for my car. The car came with an "airbox delete", someone threw out the OEM box and put a cone "Spectre" filter which I didn't care for much. The car is a late model (1992) 740 turbo wagon, with no air preheating tube. I found a box from a slightly older 740 turbo that did have a preheater tube, and a plug to put in instead of the plastic connector tube. Now I'm wondering whether the rest of the box can be adapted to my needs: it still has a flapper and a thermostat that controls the hot air tube on/off. Tried to find a description on how the air filter box is supposed to function but came up short. Help much appreciated.

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'98 V90 234K '98 V90 158K '94 940 NA 195K








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    740 turbo air filter housing 700 1992

    1992 740 Turbo does not use the preheater function.

    However, a unique filter is specified each for either normally aspired (non-turbo) and turbo air filter. See the FCP Euro, iPd and like sites. Dunno whether these are of different size. Yet considering the different in air mass consumed between NA and Turbo, you'll want a Turbo filter. Also, dunno or I forget whether the Turbo air filter box provides some manner of support so the air filter does not collapse.

    The factory installed Turbo air filter box does not have a port for preheater function. The turbo manifold does not have a preheater shroud to make connection for preheated air from the Turbo exhaust manifold.

    For more research, search here on the issue. Your better be searching and asking at Turbobricks. Some info requires a Turbobricks login account.

    Not a cone filter fan myself. The oil-basted filter allows oil to draw in past the AMM / MAF

    On my 240s, all normally aspried and aspired (ha!), I removed the air flapper preheater valve, removed the preheat hose, and so the air filter box is a cold air intake with very slightly improved throttle response, on a 3400-lb 240 with a 114 HP factory stock engine on a good day. So not Turbo.








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    740 turbo air filter housing 700 1992

    I can get the exact air filter housing for your 92 turbo. Its in a junkyard near me..I can ask how much toorrow..908 3431939








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      740 turbo air filter housing 700 1992

      Well, I already sunk $30 cash into the air filter housing, so I'll try to see if it works first. :) The yard it came from had a 94 940T with ~150K and a 1988 740T with ~185K. I compared the two units, they seemed identical except the 1988 had a preheater tube (90 degree connector), and 1994 had a plug instead of it. The 1988 was in a slightly better shape (while the other one was cracked), so I put the plug from 1994 into it and off I went. These plastic boxes all have issues with plastic breaking at the metal clips, and the clips falling off. Since 5 of the clips were broken on mine, I modified the thing a bit by cutting the broken pieces off with a box cutter and getting a little creative with a soldering gun. I also made 6 custom clips from stainless steel tablecloth clips I sourced at Amazon to hold the lid. It fits the thicker 700/900 turbo air filter just fine. I could simply remove the flap and have cold air intake 100% of the time, but I was wondering whether the flapper had some other purpose since as far as I remember the 940 air filter box had it too.
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      '98 V90 234K '98 V90 157K '94 940 NA 189K








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        740 turbo air filter housing 700 1992

        OK, problem seemingly solved, I checked the 1994 turbo housing, it did not have a thermostat or a flapper. So cold air only then. Will modify mine by removing these. Anybody knows if the thick foam "silencer" insert of the 1988 or the thinner foam "silencer" above the filter serve any useful purpose. For one thing I would prefer not to have foam above the filter, seeing that it can potentially disintegrate over time and send pieces the way of the MAF sensor and further up.
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        '98 V90 234K '98 V90 157K '94 940 NA 189K







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