Cold air intake.Pros and cons
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Cold air intake.Pros and cons
just put a cold air intake on my 1992 sc400 and got the center resanator cut to straight pipe.. love the sound. If I cut off the other 2 resanators do you guys think it would be to loud. I have two megan racing mufflers in the back..I'm new here and not much of a machanic..I also got a piggy back for the ECU I think it an AEM.to be installed and tuned in a couple of weeks..
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I cut out the cats, center cat and both resonators and replaced them with high flowing cats 2.5 inch piping and an X-pipe. My wife says it's too loud, but I get a lot of looks when I start up.
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What you have is nice and very blingy, but it's basically a hot-air intake and will not gain you anything at best and decrease HP at worst. I'd keep the cool looking pipe and do a BFI, or get some more pipe and run the filter under the headlight. There's enough room down there if you look under your splash shield. There's a little area that's square that is big enough for your filter to sit.
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Thanks guys, ill chec k out relocating the filter a little lower.
I'm getting an AEM piggy back for it as well supposed to be installed and tuned next week..I'll post results of that as well..
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Time isn't the main consideration. The thing about the BFI is that it pressurizes the air and you do get COLD air. Some of the Aussies have gotten as much as 17(?)WHP from this mod and that's a REAL gain. My sister and I did mine and we were both shocked at the amount of response we got from that mod alone.
What you have is nice and very blingy, but it's basically a hot-air intake and will not gain you anything at best and decrease HP at worst. I'd keep the cool looking pipe and do a BFI, or get some more pipe and run the filter under the headlight. There's enough room down there if you look under your splash shield. There's a little area that's square that is big enough for your filter to sit.
What you have is nice and very blingy, but it's basically a hot-air intake and will not gain you anything at best and decrease HP at worst. I'd keep the cool looking pipe and do a BFI, or get some more pipe and run the filter under the headlight. There's enough room down there if you look under your splash shield. There's a little area that's square that is big enough for your filter to sit.
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The Lexus intake is somewhat restrictive, but lack of smooth flowing air isn't where your power gains are. It's because the BFI makes a pressurized elephant snorkel out of existing parts. Pressurized is the key.
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