Unless you cut your sheet metal and get out of the engine bay; you will end up with a HOT ram air intake. So it's that, a short ram, an enclosed filter boxed intake or a true CAI. This and you're still not likely to gain much more then 10whp.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/per...ter-setup.html

 

Just get the FSport pipe or JoeZ pipe for now, then buy the PPE one when/if that comes out

 

lol at least other "sri" makers use a heatshield to fake a "cai", injen doesn't even have a dam heatshield lmfao

 

That made me LOL.. not a fan of the e-lingo? I'm guessing saying, "u mirin brah?" isn't ok either, huh? Hahaha. Enlighten it is from now

 

Mike, as soon as the guys at PPE allow me to, I will post some pics. I think their design is different from yours, but does have the filter down in that same area. I do know that it sounds AWESOME at WOT, as I am sure yours does as well

 

could of said "make me aware" but I chose to use a different word.

OP, like others said if your intake pipe and filter doesn't go down past the sheet metal behind the bumper where it has cooler air. its not a cold air intake.

 

yeah injen doesnt make a cold air intake for the IS, its just a long short ram intake. sucking in straight hot engine bay air. you were better off just sticking with the stock air box and a Joe Z pipe. the stock air box already sucks in fresh cool air from the front of the car

 

Glad PPE is making something, they make some quality products. BUT... 308whp I'm going to say... You're not putting that much to the ground. Youre especially no where near that if all you have is an intake.

Lol... cool short ram intake. As the rest of the party has told you, you dont have a cold air intake.

 

LOL..."i no what i buy & it is!"

 

LOL, no, not just a cold air intake. When we dynoed the car with just headers and F-Sport Intake, it peaked at 286WHP but when the graph printed and the lines were corrected, it rounded at 281WHP. I am not familiar with how dynos work but I think the place the car was dynoed at did it wrong because the lines don't make sense. I am not going to claim 308WHP at all lol. I truly believe it was a fluke and done wrong.

I think PPE is going to try to get the car dynoed somewhere else because they also don't think it was dynoed correctly as well.

No idea what all of that means, but I do know it sounds awesome at WOT .

Either way, from what I have read most intakes aren't going to show massive differences on a dyno anyways due to the fact that the advantage with a cold air is when the car is moving it is sucking in cooler air..

I know they posted a pic of the prototype cold air intake on their Facebook page.

 

very exciting to hear about this cai from ppe. just ordered headers a month ago from them. should b here any day now

 

get a k&n intake

 

hahahaha i died!!