Cheers mate!
Make your AVTAR your new piccy!!!
PETE do not remove the pipe from the backplate unless you absolutly have to as it is a little BOOGER to get back into the hole ( as someone said to his holiness)
IF necessary use a heat gun to soften everything BUT remember you are in the engine bay with lots of fuel and plastiky bits that melt
In the end I removed backplate and pipe from the IACV and did the removal job on the bench.
In the final end I did not need to remove it at all as I used the Pipercross backplate. but there is no substitute for experiance
I’m just bumping this thread as I’m about to embark on a similar mod for my car. I’m re-manufacturing the Pipercross backplate as the OEM item is heavy steel. Going to make my own in anodised aluminium to save some weight 
Have contacted ITG to see if I can buy the filter separately. Seems a bit of a rip paying 200 quid to PTP when similar filters are sold through other outlets for somewhere in the 100-quid region.
Update to this …no need to cut off the lugs and if you get on with the quick release turnbuckles then keep them.
I never think they are secure/tight enough so replace with bolts and captive springythingy nuts.
Its been ok since I fitted it but with the direct cold air feed the filter needs cleaning regularly as plenty of rocks / straw / children /etc find their way in…
The ITG backplate requires enlargement for the IACV pipe and getting it off the original backplate takes some doing…that is if you want to run IACV anyway…as some of us dont .but thats another story. 
Clive… hows the oil leak???
Hope you gout it fixed.
Still working on it.!!
Still working on it.!![/quote]
Gout!
[quote=Mr PeskyGout! [/quote]
Too much drinking gravy…Pete of course not me .Hick!! 
How are you doing Rob?/ when they allow you out in the Bathchair S1
Hi Clive
I’ve not got any restrictions on driving (or anything else, for that matter 
). May go for a short trip tomorrow in the “Bathchair” & see the Racing God - for a chat/walk/pi$$take i.e 30 mile roundtrip.
Did you get anwhere with this? I’ve just removed mine to clean and found this problem - I can only think it’s taken a beating from stones and other road debris:
Looking at the photos above mine appears to be a slightly different design with a wired cage on the inside:
ITG will recover it for you for a price
Mr Bean - thanks I didn’t know that so I’ll contat them and see what they say.
Interestingly, I was looking up the invoice to see how long I’ve had it and how much I paid (PTP want to change a small fortune for a new one) and came across some ITG glossy literature for it that stated it had a lifetime guarantee. I might ask what this means!
I have an ITG and carbon air box for sale at the moment if anyone is interested.
Got mine back from being re-covered and have to say I’m mighty impressed - it seems a virtual re-covering - I’d swear that it’s a completely brand new replacement.
Contact with ITG was very easy and turnaround time pretty fast.
I just need to make a gasket for the back of the airbox to the throttle body back plate. It seems strange that the kit appears to ignore this part?
Steve, I had to make this part too. I went to a place here that specialises in foams and made my own.
Esprit
saw you had to do that on your Project. I’m really surprised the kit doesn’t come with a seal.
Might cut some heavy duty gasket or rubber rather than foam as I’m worried about it breaking off and getting sucked into the engine.
Steve, I think it’s because the filter is designed to go directly against the backplate, not sandwich a filter box inbetween.
The foam should be fine, it’s what all the OEM solutions use. The foam would go straight through the engine without damaging anything because there’s nothing to it.
Esprit - thanks for the reassurance.
Now done with some foam I had lying around. Had a brain fade though and made holes for the original fitting baseplate as well!
The extra thickness of the gasket meant it was a bugger to get the original bolts to catch in the rivnuts, so I went for some 5mm longer. Made the jog that much easier to line up.