Poorly designed intakes cause turbulence and often use a different diameter pipe where the MAF meter is. I've heard good things about SPT and Cobb. I removed the resonator and got a K&N Panel filter. This is as good performance wise for my setup and cost aroud $20.
$20<$209
Poorly designed intakes cause turbulence and often use a different diameter pipe where the MAF meter is. I've heard good things about SPT and Cobb. I removed the resonator and got a K&N Panel filter. This is as good performance wise for my setup and cost aroud $20.
$20<$209
BTW there is not an O2 sensor in the intake.
This is a very economical way to make an intake good for >300whp.
SPT and Cobb SRIs are similar in capability and sound and perhaps a simpler solution that many prefer but either way, you're good.
A cold air intake is defined as an intake that pulls air from outside the engine bay. The SPT intake does not, it is mounted inside the engine bay. Effectively, a CAI on a WRX is going to have to have a major bend and then pull from the passenger side fender. That bend is the problem. The SPT intake (like the cobb intake) matches the stock pattern but terminates in a cone filter rather than an airbox.
they make the air intake itself, like the big conical filter and the mount that it goes on, and then they make an air box that you put the filter in. do you need the box? im guessing they work together?
Yes, the intake works with or without the air box. The air box is a glorified heat shield. It's main purpose is to shield the intake form heat under your hood. $265 seems a lot to pay for just a heat shield but it's a nice offering.
As a newb I bought an intake off of ebay but learned I had wasted my money brfore I even received in the mail. When I took off the resonator I used some of the aluminum tubing from the intake to direct air from the fender area into the stock airbox. It is not a cold air intake by definition but it does not suck hot engine air either.
they make the air intake itself, like the big conical filter and the mount that it goes on, and then they make an air box that you put the filter in. do you need the box? im guessing they work together?
ya well the 260 somthing price is for box + filter, i dunno there are temperature charts there that claim the box drops the temp by about 25 degrees!
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