As long as the plastic welding or poor connection is upstream of the air
flow meter........
it won't have an affect on the AFM's functioning.
Unfiltered air might get in, and dust into the engine ..........but the AFM
can work just fine with no air box or filter on the upstream side of it.
I do however, 'collect' air boxes.
I have a big ole one out of a 88 Jetta TDI.
I have some others, Can send you pictures etc.

If you have a 'square vanagon intake on your AFM' ...........couldn't you
just use a vanagon air box ?
I'm probably not following you correctly.
But I have many air boxes........Subaru SVX, tdi jetta, volvo, vanagon, 2.2
subaru possibly. etc. etc.
send me a picture !
scott
www.turbovans.com
and happy day to ya ! ........to all.

----- Original Message -----
From: "BenT Syncro" <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 1:39 AM
Subject: Need AFM adapter so different aircleaner or cold air intake can be
used

> As the subject says... I have 2.0 inline-4 VW conversion in my Doka. The
> AFM
> has been giving me problems for various reasons. I suspect
> one problem is the Digifant AFM was plastic welded onto a stock Golf
> airbox.
> The welding job was not exactly the greatest. This is the way
> it came in the used conversion package.
>
> I have seen K&N cone filters on other Vanagons with Digifant but can't
> recall who makes them. These should be the same ones used on
> Golfs and Jettas. I have seen the ones on Ebay but those are for the later
> model AFM's. The one I need adapts the square intake of the
> Vanagon AFM to a round tube on a K&N or similar system. The common Ebay
> variety goes from round tube to round tube.
>
> Looking for leads either new or used.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> BenT