Bolted this on yesterday with my buddies. Talk about simple...the whole process with strut bar took under an hour. Immediate gains were felt. I love this thing! Has a very mild sound to it...you'd probably notice it if you didn't have any other mods, otherwise it's pretty hard to hear it. Seems to compliment the JWT very nicely.

The guys at Crawford are fantastic...kept me updated all along the way, even though they're back ordered on their plenum...took 2 1/2 weeks to get it...not bad.

I was wavering between kinetix and crawford....I'm glad I chose this path, and no worries about cracking! It looks super bad *** in the engine compartment too...I was so excited, I forgot to put on my ground wires (more for show)...something else to do today I guess!

 

Yup, glad you like it. The V5 is actually quite nice!

 

Dr,

We'll have to meet up so I can check it out in action

 

yea, i gotta jump on the V5 next...
you mentioned 2-1/2 weeks from when you ordered to when you received it? did you get the polished version?

 

Fantastic product isn't it? I also have their cats.
Luv them both

Lou

 

Nope, just painted black. Doug said they have so many orders that they're about 2 weeks out. They took my order but didn't bill me till they shipped it...very cool. Also didn't charge the core charge...just told me to send the original back asap. I'll put some pics up as soon as I load them on to the computer.

 

NICE! - i should probably just go ahead and order - by the time they ship, i'll have the $$ together.... and black definitely is the color in my opinion... are you planning on modifying the plastic engine cover, or just leavin it off?

 

hold on here... do u have to ship your manifold top piece TO CRAWFORD for them to modify?? what is this core charge?

 

I left the plastic piece off...looks cool with the strut bar. You can modify it with a dremmel tool to fit...seen some people do it.

The crawford v5 plenum is a stock plenum that has been modified...therefor they need stock plenums to continue to make their product. A *core* charge is what they charge you if you decide to keep your stock plenum. You simply send them your stock plenum as soon as you get a chance to put your new one on. The same process is common with throttle bodies.

Some people said they wanted to keep their stock plenums, and went with kinetix. There's no real point to keeping the stock plenum with a crawford, since you are essentially putting on a Z plenum..just a modified one. The price is the same when it's all said and done.

 

Glad I got my V5

 

why not matching the body color? black seems very "dark"...

 

Two reasons:

1) The don't offer an "orange" color...just black, white, yellow, red, green, chrome (extra) and grey. There might be a blue as well..can't remember.

2) The black is a gloss black...it actually looks pretty awesome when you open the hood.


Pics to follow, as soon as cardomain gets back online.....mine looks sick with the zextreme orange ground wire kit.

 

Here's the blue V5. The color is darker than the picture shows. It matches the DB well.

 

what is wrapped around your intake tube?

 

does the V5 allow u to keap your engine covers and stock strut??

Ben

 

Nope. The plenum sits too high for the stock strut bar. Some people have modified their engine covers to fit, but why would you want to hide the engine. Just my opinion.

 

Yeah, kiss the stock strut goodbye...I think that's one negative...but overall you gotta love it...and no worries about boost down the road.

 

DAMN

Cleanest engine yet! Congrats on the install!

 

My plenum matches my wheels

 

i am gunna get my engine covers painted and try and make me engine bay look good for shows and such....i am just in the process of finding performance that will work around the covers and such....we will have to see

Ben