how would a hks mushroom air filter with a aluminum intake tube perform you guys think??? or even the mushroom at the end of a cai tube, at my shop we use it on our turbo and non turbo cars and the desighn looks good so let me ahve some feed back

 

I hate mushrooms, especially raw......never had any on my car though! What exactly is a "mushroom filter"

 

jerry-rigged intakes look like crap. you would do better gettingone of those cheapo ones off of e-bay. save up a few bucks and get a JWT popcharger.

 

I made my own custom intake, cars pulls HARD!! and the sound is amazing, HKS is bad ***!! and paid less than any intake out in the market...

 

That metal strap "supporting" the intake does not look very good...

 

Who cares what it looks like, does it work and where are the dynos.

 

I think he's talked about his intake gains before in a thread, and the bar holding the intake is just like the JWT design

 

stock the air intake is sealed off from the engine bay, which I think most would consider preferable. as it forces the air to come from the bumper area which is cold and slightly pressurized at high speeds. this is possibly 1 reason why CAI's show very little gains as its sucking the same cold air.

but to remove that and add a filter like that... it would be sucking hot air from the engine bay. and no pressure coming in.

doesnt seem like itd be a better design, but I guess reality doesnt always follow rules, could be something else happening.

 

Those tend to work "alright" on turbo app's...

Though on your engine, purely NA, you will benefit from a velocity stack found within the intake itself.

JWT, etc... have such a thing. Check into it.

I think you're just "feeling" the new sound.