As there is no 'ideal' location for the 200 Tdi air filter housing on a Defender Tdi conversion, I've come up with the 'mad' (I say mad as I can't find anything on Forums about other people who have done this!) idea of trying to graft the box-like 300 Tdi air filter housing into the front left hand side of the engine where there's lots of space.
I intend to fabricate a simple mounting bracket that will bolt onto the top of the timing cover (the 'unused' bolt holes where the air-con is fitted I believe). The picture below kind of shows where I want to fit it.
The orientation of the inlet/outlet ports on the filter housing however are almost 180 degrees away from where I need them to be and it's not just a simple job of turning the unit round and I don't think it would fit then.
It's a fairly basic paper filter cartridge on the 300Tdi and I was wondering if I could simply pipe it up back to front ie. use the air inlet port as the outlet and vice versa. Does anyone know if this is feasible and is a paper filter such as this one manufactured to only take air in one way?
Answers on a postcard or preferably on the forum
Cheers
Mark