Induction kits and prices

[Malcolmgt]

What are people's choices and how much should I be looking to spend?

Ramair?
K and n?

[Rasco]

Save your money and just get a decent panel filter for the OEM setup (which is totally fine and sucks in nice cold air directly in though the front almost straight into the throttle body)  induction kits do fu*k all in terms of power and can actually reduce power

[r5gtt]

Induction kits just look nicer in the bay 

[Rasco]

Something cannot be beautiful if it serves no function.

[AJP]

^ Not true strictly speaking chaps.

At stock or Stage 1 levels of tune the airbox is fine and does a good job. It's not really restrictive at this point.

At higher levels of tune, there's plenty to be had from an aftermarket intake. At big turbo levels, the stock airbox would certainly be throttling the flow.

Plenty run aftermarket intakes on Stage 1 maps though. They're only really unreliable or detrimental to performance if the maf scaling is wrong, and it helps to have a map that accounts for the intake.

[r5gtt]

Two different parts from two kits but look nice 
not beautiful 

[Malcolmgt]

I was under the impression for stage 1 that I would need a new panel filter or ideally an induction kit.

They also look cool ha

[MC71]

Something cannot be beautiful if it serves no function.

Codswallop!

Show me your panel filter stage 2+ map and I'll show you my CAI one? 

[r5gtt]

Something cannot be beautiful if it serves no function.

Codswallop!

Show me your panel filter stage 2+ map and I'll show you my CAI one? 

[AJP]

I was under the impression for stage 1 that I would need a new panel filter or ideally an induction kit.

They also look cool ha

No. For Stage 1 you just need a healthy car.

Only once you're up to Stage 2+ and beyond do you really need one. Unless you're getting it for the noise.

[r5gtt]

AJP do you really really need one?.

Some are running 300bhp with OEM and a panel filter and say the CAI isn't worth it. don't take offence as that's what I was crying about when I had issues with mine high revving and late gear changing etc do you remember?.

[r5gtt]

If you're going to buy one OP just get a Ramair kit and haggle the price down on ebay and they'll accept it  from 180 to silly 150 prices lower still and so forth.

[AJP]

AJP do you really really need one?.

Some are running 300bhp with OEM and a panel filter and say the CAI isn't worth it. don't take offence as that's what I was crying about when I had issues with mine high revving and late gear changing etc do you remember?.

No. Nobody really needs one. But at higher levels of tune they become proportionately more beneficial. It's not as black and white as saying they either work, or don't work. That was my point.

They're not essential.

Neither are they forged in the bowels of hell by the hands of the devil as some like to proclaim.

Anyway, I thought you just said in your build thread it was the split rev b dv causing all those fun and games???

[r5gtt]

I still can't be 100% on why the car was running perfect in my eyes before trying the filter kit if you recall but maybe too much air was causing more of a boost leak due to more air travelling through?. If someone had one I could try for an hour would be nice  that'll definitely answer the question of was it or wasn't it the dv that caused the car to play silly buggers with a CAI kit fitted?.

[rich83]

Something cannot be beautiful if it serves no function.

That doesnt make sense.