Actually I don't think the pantyhose will cause any harm as if it gets caught it will just melt and burn up. A piece of screen might be a better idea as it will also act as a flame arrestor just in case the motor should backfire. Get a piece of stainless screen. A cheap source is a cooking supply. Get a grease fire preventer, it is just a piece os s/s screen mounted in a wire handle. Cut the screen out and you have a nice big piece. Most places that sell door screen materiel sell either plastic or aluminum and that isn't as good as stainless. In some cases removing the air induction system can result in a decrease in performance as they are "tuned" to the air flow. The only way to really do it right is on a flowbench. Dave Swingle is also correct in that you can't expect any improvement if the exhaust is restricting the breathing of the motor, fixing the intake won't get you anything in that case. A motor is supposed to be an engineered system and as such there is usually no one thing that will give you much improvement without also upgrading the associated systems. This will give you some idea of what Steve Wynn went through to get more performance out of the PRV-6. If it was that easy to improve the performance you would think that the Delorean engineers would have done it because they realized the car was underpowered because it came out too heavy. Their answer was to go to Legend Industries and create a turbo-powered "D". It may have been the expensive and "brute-force" way to get more horsepower but it made a significant difference as any owner who has a turbo will tell you. The efforts to improve the performance by just working on the air box will yield small if any improvement. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "David Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx> wrote: > I'd be VERY cautious about trying this. If you don't get it exactly > right, and you rev the engine up all the way, I'd hate to think about > what a hunk of pantyhose sucked thru the engine will do to things in > there. This could get expensive. > > Dave Swingle > > > --- In dmcnews@xxxx, senatorpack@xxxx wrote: > > > > Just take some old panty hose. Remove filter housing. Cut the > panty hose to > > fit over the air plenum and attach with rubber gasket supplied.