it's a bolt-on. it's cheap. 8hp here and there add up. If you don't think it's worth it you should just stop reading now. Bolt-on's are not for you.

Also, all this talk of hydrolock is just hype. The chance of this happening is extremely minimal.

 

you must do some bolt ons before moving onward. of course gains are minimal, but they are through the whole power band, which is a good bit of performance improvement.

then again, intakes are useless with a turbo. but untill turbos come around, the intakes lots of fun sounds good, looks nice. and a few extra hp is always good.you paid 30000grand for 287hp, 300$ for 5 hp is cheap.

 

2 things i disagree with:

1) you dont need bolt ons before moving forward... i am planning to go the greddy turbo kit... from the intake to the exhaust and all in between... why do i need any other intake?

2) i paid closer to $37,000 for a piece of art, and a really fun automobile. not for 287hp.

m

oh yeah, who paid $30,000,000 for thier Z?

 

hehe I knew number 2 would come up, and your right. as for number one, a turbo kit coming with a included exhaust is news to me, ussually they might offer a very free flowing exhaust tuned for the turbo, but its typicly not REQUIRED, so its a seperate option that could be bought by itself.

and I did say intakes were useless, as well as headers, but you can sell them down the road when you get the turbo. for me, 300$ is doable, but Im a ways away from 6grand of more for the turbo kit. Ill play with what I can now, and keep saving for the holy grail.

 

Exhaust wont be included in the greddy turbo kit.

 

You are correct. I don't think I have ever seen a turbo kit which included an exhaust for that matter. The Greddy Evo should be available in Febuary.

-Jeremy

 

my point was i will wait to buy the greddy turbo kit, then supplement any parts necessary with the appropriate ones from greddy...

i might get the evolution sooner, but jeremy will know first.

m

 

Butt dyno tells me it feels a LOT more than the 5-6RWHP increase.. feels more like a 10RWHP increase to me... The car runs a LOT quicker and pulls significantly harder from all over the powerband, especially in the upper ranges.

 

It was for this reason I just got the replacement K&N filter.

Only $45 , you can do it yourself , and it gets the same gain in hp and torgue. Of coarse you don't get the funny sound

 

and you get a loss of hp when your engine heats up.

 

a loss as compaired to the regular filter .. I don't think so. Now if you are compairing it to the injen then maybe. If you are compairing to the wolf pop then no way.

The stock box does a better job then that piece of tin they call a heat shield.

 

whatever, once someone does a before and after dyno K&N filter owners will be disappointed.

 

Some of you guys are just plain out "couch mechanics". Please have use a bit of personal experience and intuition before making comments about performance gains.

Ive thrown enough money into my cars to know.....
- The injen WILL increase HP
- It will not loose HP when hot. Its sucking air from in the grill, not next to the engine.

 

I was talking about the K&N filter. I happen to like CAI's.

 

TJZ, not you man

I was referring to the skeptics

 

ok, just making sure .

 

I think I have a little more expertice then the average couch mechanics. I have been building engines and racing cars for over 25 years. I can tell you right now that the K&N will make as much or more hp then the wolf pop and will be less influenced by heat then the pop. I also have had a lot of experience with the Injen via racing an RSX type S with one for the past year. It was very much subjected to the effect of heat. Please, really look at where the filter is getting its air from in the pic attached. Nissan did a very good job in both its intake and exhaust on the Z.

I just don't want people to think that throwing money at the Z is going to get them the rewards people making a buck tell them.

 

Ok, i just re-read what you posted. You do favor the injen, not the pop. Ok, im in 100% agreement.

RSX-S huh? My buddy has one and from what I understand, most of your intakes wind up sucking hot air right back in. THen they went to heat shields and they kept breaking. Lordy. Did you use one like that?

I know that when his car heats up it doenst run quite as strong.

 

thats right and Injen never would address the problem to anyones satisfaction. It made good hp when it was cold but next to non when it got hot.
I didn't have the problem since I was cooling my own air via N2O

 

I think i have to clarify that injen NEVER made a CAI for the RSX/RSX-S. They have only made a SRI. The problem with losing power once the engine heats up will happen to anything taking air from under the hood. That is why we want to buy a CAI, b/c it takes in cold air from outside. Luckily injen and aem have both made true CAI's for us, so we wont be faced with what the RSX-S owners have.