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Intake waste of money?

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Lucastheone92:
Just wondering peoples thoughts on intakes. A lot of people say they are worth buying whilst a lot of people also say that they just suck in warm air from the engine bay and can mess with MAF. I also read that it does not matter how much air you suck in as it still has to go through the throttle body.

Every time I read up on intakes my mind gets changed from buying one to not buying one!

If you do have one which type do you guys have? the EVOMS intake seems a poplular choice.

I have a edition 30 at stage 1.

Paradox1:
For stage 1 I wouldn't bother. they may increase bhp a little bit but that you will notice.

I only got 1 as im going beyond stage 1.. but then again, whos to say I need one for a stage 2 map???

xs2man:
I have an APR Carbonio (I think it is).  But only because it was on the car when I bought it.  Otherwise I'd have gone for a Revo, if I had gone for anything at all.

I will admit, it is a nice looking bit of kit in that engine bay, so I'll be keeping it, the car also benefits from a carbon fiber engine cover anyway.  So does look good.

I will say though, there is a lot of chat on some of the facebook groups where people are going for that Ramair thing.  I don't see the point personally.  It's only £50 cheaper or something than the Revo, and the tuners (well, R-Tech in particular) suggest that there is no better intake out there for making numbers.  Now there is more to life than numbers, for sure.  But for the sake of an extra £50, when you're already looking at spending close to £200, it seems a no brainer to me to go for the more efficient one at gaining numbers.

TDLR:  My money would be buying a Revo.  But as I have an APR one already, I wouldn't dream of spending money again on this side of things.

AJP:
I think from what I've read about the Revo, it does the best job of matching the standard intake's MAF scaling. Plenty of other intakes don't, and therefore the ECU is forced to use bigger fuel trim corrections. It's not all about flow (as much as it's a big factor).

If and when I get an intake, it'll be Revo. But by that time I wouldn't be surprised if something even better is available!

Madone:
I recently went from the standard air box at stage 2+ on my edition 30 to the VWR intake. The MAF scaling is spot on so no loss of torque and it takes cold air directly from the grill in the same place the Oem version did. In terms of performance, I can honestly say (at stage 2+) it made a big difference (bigger than expected), def noticeable pulls much harder, more torque and power. 100% worth doing. Noise wise the VWR isn't much louder than stock which is what I wanted. Can't comment about stage 1, I ran the standard intake with panel filer all the way to stage 2+. But based on my experience it made a massive difference.

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