Anybody Get Their V. 4 Yet?
07-03-2004 | 05:19 AM
#21
Originally posted by Mike Wazowski
The Crawford plenum is a modified OEM plenum, while the Kinetix Racing plenum is made of plastic which is prone to cracking as illustrated above. With the Kinetix Racing plenum, you can keep the beautiful engine cover and factory strut bar, which means less volume in the plenum chamber since the design requires an indention to allow the strut bar to fit, and requires the front of the plenum to be a little lower to allow the engine cover to fit. And since it's plastic it requires reinforcements underneath to prevent flexing and cracking; those reinforcements obstruct airflow; the airflow that was supposed to be gained in the first place. With the Crawford plenum, you can't use the OEM engine cover, but who really cares; it's just a piece of plastic covering up your even more beautiful VQ engine; you also can't use your OEM strut bar but that's not a problem because they have an alternative strut bar to use that works just as great. You have to send in your plenum to Crawford but there is no downtime due to their exchange program. I chose the Crawford plenum because I wanted maximum volume under the plenum for better performance. And cause I'm such a genius I modified my factory engien cover to fit over the Crawford plenum and it looks just as great if not better.
The Crawford plenum is a modified OEM plenum, while the Kinetix Racing plenum is made of plastic which is prone to cracking as illustrated above. With the Kinetix Racing plenum, you can keep the beautiful engine cover and factory strut bar, which means less volume in the plenum chamber since the design requires an indention to allow the strut bar to fit, and requires the front of the plenum to be a little lower to allow the engine cover to fit. And since it's plastic it requires reinforcements underneath to prevent flexing and cracking; those reinforcements obstruct airflow; the airflow that was supposed to be gained in the first place. With the Crawford plenum, you can't use the OEM engine cover, but who really cares; it's just a piece of plastic covering up your even more beautiful VQ engine; you also can't use your OEM strut bar but that's not a problem because they have an alternative strut bar to use that works just as great. You have to send in your plenum to Crawford but there is no downtime due to their exchange program. I chose the Crawford plenum because I wanted maximum volume under the plenum for better performance. And cause I'm such a genius I modified my factory engien cover to fit over the Crawford plenum and it looks just as great if not better.
