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Originally Posted by Alpine White Girl' post='832386' date='Mar 31 2009, 08:36 PM
your post are great!! just wanted to see if anyone had anything else to suggest!
I think the scoop is a must from what i've read. Filter, scoop, and exhaust. How much HP gain is this going to give me?
I think the scoop is a must from what i've read. Filter, scoop, and exhaust. How much HP gain is this going to give me?
nerwyll or joe from trinity might also be able to help you out with that...
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so once again even on the N54/TT engine it seems the stock box is good to go....
definitely good to go and money saved for other mods here...
so once again even on the N54/TT engine it seems the stock box is good to go....
definitely good to go and money saved for other mods here...
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Originally Posted by -Mike-' post='832410' date='Mar 31 2009, 08:49 PM
Did anyone ever happen to dyno the anti-RPI $2 homemade plant pot scoop? JUST ASKING!!! 
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Originally Posted by -Mike-' post='832410' date='Mar 31 2009, 10:49 PM
Did anyone ever happen to dyno the anti-RPI $2 homemade plant pot scoop? JUST ASKING!!!
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Originally Posted by Alpine White Girl' post='832466' date='Mar 31 2009, 11:32 PM
that scoop was funny, but im sure it works just as good. Just kind of ghetto/janky approach
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Originally Posted by Alpine White Girl' post='832466' date='Mar 31 2009, 09:32 PM
that scoop was funny, but im sure it works just as good. Just kind of ghetto/janky approach
youre sure? based on what? your opinion?
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Originally Posted by RPIpower' post='832216' date='Mar 31 2009, 06:31 PM
Got a chance to dyno the new Injen intake for the 535 today. The results were not surprising. After the car sat for about 15-20 minutes, I measured the temp at the intake tubing IAT. It was at 184F.
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I'm just throwing this info out there as I personally when it comes to mods like to keep it simple soo... I would definitely prefer to run the stock air box with a drop in as well...I'm not b/c of other testing that I have seen. I'd love to see more data...
Pretty extensive open element vs stock air box testing was done over at n54 a while back. I will look for the thread(s). Anyway, I believe the conclusion was that with stock/slightly raised boost levels the stock air box was the way to go since open element made no improvements. However, once the boost was turned up much higher than stock the air box would actually produce a pressure drop/resistance and cause a loss of power. At high boost levels the n54 made more power with an open element rather than the stock air box.
Obviously this applies only to the turbo N54 motors that are running aggressive tunes (if you have stock tune/not high boost tune or a NON-turbo e60 stock air box is probably the way to go). I'd love to see more back to back testing on n54 running high boost.
As a side note...In my personal setup I am running full time water/meth injection so even if the temps are increased by the open element my water/meth cools the charge down before going into the motor....so I am more concerned with pressure drop. Like I said if more data is brought forward on high boost cars proving this wrong I would gladly go back to the stock air box
Pretty extensive open element vs stock air box testing was done over at n54 a while back. I will look for the thread(s). Anyway, I believe the conclusion was that with stock/slightly raised boost levels the stock air box was the way to go since open element made no improvements. However, once the boost was turned up much higher than stock the air box would actually produce a pressure drop/resistance and cause a loss of power. At high boost levels the n54 made more power with an open element rather than the stock air box.
Obviously this applies only to the turbo N54 motors that are running aggressive tunes (if you have stock tune/not high boost tune or a NON-turbo e60 stock air box is probably the way to go). I'd love to see more back to back testing on n54 running high boost.
As a side note...In my personal setup I am running full time water/meth injection so even if the temps are increased by the open element my water/meth cools the charge down before going into the motor....so I am more concerned with pressure drop. Like I said if more data is brought forward on high boost cars proving this wrong I would gladly go back to the stock air box