I was just curious, im liking the varis air duct more and more. (Not so much the cf part but o well) Im just curious, with popcharger, how does it stand up with water coming in the engine bay? np or can it be a prob? i searched some and only found one that explained a lil but he said just a few drops get in (but he lived where it doesnt rain a WHOLE lot)

 

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So where did you buy your air duct cause I here there kinda hard to get right and I'd love to find one, Thank's.

 

I have the Varis on my car, and with rain, it's not a problem.
The duct is pretty far away from the filter. It would be hard to get a lot of water through the varis duct, then through the stock vent in the front support, then to the filter... I haven't had trouble with mine at all, i wouldn't worry. but you can always slap a piece of vinyl tape over the duct during the rain if you really want to, to be extra safe...

 

Where can you get 1? I want one pretty bad. It looks hawt on CS and DB Z's

 

We sell them online here:
http://performancenissanparts.com/ca...oducts_id=5541

but Varis takes a long time to ship to the USA. We're waiting on our shipment to come in still. We have nearly all of them sold already.
Andy has it on his Black Z, and I have it on my chameleon Z. It's easy to put in and nice once on the car

 

why does urs sell for so much? i know where u can buy one for 140 shipped

 

No problems in the rain. I've had mine on for 3 months and have checked under the hood quite a few times during rainstorms.....I've only seen one drop of water ever on the popcharger. I also have a tube running from back of Varis duct to the filter area.

 

When I had mine, no problems in the rain whatsoever. Great mod, but becoming played out fast.

 

how did the install go? what tool did you use to cut the bumper? man, you guys are brave motha's.

 

The varis duct coms with a template so you can line it up on the bumper. I recomend doing this:
put masking tape on the bumper, in the area where you will cut. Line up the template, and with a pencil or marker, outline where the template tells you to cut. Remove the template, and then cut out the bumper along the marks that you drew on the tape. The tape will hep prevent paint peeling etc... I used a dremel with a cut off wheel bit, that's what I would recomend for this.
Once it's done, take a file to file down the rough edges, then install the duct. It takes about 30 minutes to do....

 

i havent had any problems with mine in the rain

when i installed it i just used a boxcutter to cut out the hole in the bumper

 

j/k.....got any pics?

 

Here's a tutorial:

http://www dot 350z dash tech dot com/zwiki/Tutorial:Varis_CF_Air_Duct_Installation

Replace the dot with . and the dash with -
This forum censors that site for some reason.

 

I like mine. Ive had no problems with rain but it doesnt rain here very much.

 

nice....it definitely looks functional....can you get them already painted to match the car?

 

Hello.
no they only come in Carbon Fiber, but they are easily painted to match, just talk to a local body shop...

 

I hardly ever drive my Z in the rain, BUT when I have, not even an issue to be concerned with. The design of the piece is indeed angled towards the intake, but downwards. And there is plenty of space between it and the air element. You would literally have to hold a water hose directly to the Varis and even then I'm not sure it would hit the filter.

I disagree completely with your last comment. I have had mine for @ 6 months and being here in the Dallas area, you can imagine there are tons of Z's on the road. I have seen NOT one other Varis ever on a Z other than mine! Does that mean there aren't any in the huge city of Dallas and surrounding areas? Nah. But obviously they are FAR from being "played out".
Great mod and I get mad compliments VERY often... But that's on the car as a whole.

 

My varis order is in process, can't wait for it to come. And I disagree with the air duct be "played out" as well since I am in a Local Z club and no one has one. I will probably be the only one to have it due to how the varis is always out of stock and not a lot of people want to cut a hole in the bumper(maybe they are leasing or whatever).

On a side note, has anyone seen or thought about getting the varis air duct painted the colour of your car? I'm thinking about a lip and when I get the lip painted, I was wondering if I could just ask the painters to paint the varis air duct as well as the head of 8 screws(4 extras just in case).

 

I think that would look sweet! The only reason I didn't is becuase of the contrasting carbon-fiber lip I have.