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whats the best air intake?
acespizee:
--- Quote from: CarrG on May 11, 2010, 04:55:49 pm ---
^^^^ Nice. Whats the noise like? Have you modified your front Dbilas brackets?
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Sounds really meaty and Breathy, but not annoyingly so. Has a very nice sound along with exhaust that makes it sound alot more fruity than a 4 cyclinder has any right to.
Front brackets are unmodified.
acespizee:
--- Quote from: vRSy on May 11, 2010, 05:01:50 pm --- :scared: :scared:
I wouldnt want to hit a puddle or drive behind another cars spray with that lower filter. That must be a recipe for water ingress into the air intake system.
If you made gains then good for you, but there is no way id be happy with that. Also congrats on the output. thats the most powerful k03 ive seen to date :wink:.
Also another point as well is looking at your filters, you have two different brands/styles of filter-one panel/1 cone. these wil have different flow characteristic causing more disruption where the two air flows meet, there is an array of different sizedhose connections to disrupt air flow even more
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This is england so i have already been through snow, wind, rain and sunshine, all with out any problems. I have had this intake for a while now.
I had the original Forge CAI and was to my knowledge the first Leon with it fitted, also allowing me it really, really cheap, as i was the Leon ginuepig in the Forge pic. I ran this intake for over a year (maybe more) with no problems at all, in the same location the second filter is located.
It just works mate.
I had two intakes lying around and could'nt decide which was better. My original Forge intake flowed better than my Dbilas up-top and sounded much better (IMO) but my Dbilas had better throttle response, especially at motorway speeds. I wanted the best of both worlds. I had an idea, grew a fat pair and tried it.
And it worked. :congrats:
Throttle response is much better, mid-range pulls very hard and top-end is nice and smooth, and it sounds much better than my Dbilas or Forge when they were on there own. Lots of Darth Vader noises.
Power band is very, very smooth and the car flows over 215gs at the maf. This intake will be following me to big turbo land.
Intake temps do not rise above 20*c and is at 17*c at redline.
Here is Dyno run note how smooth it is. :happy2:
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bacillus:
I find it puzzling why your peak torque appears to occur at around 4.4k rpm on a k03. I would expect this with a bigger turbo and not a k03. :confused:
My peak torque occurs at around 3.2k rpm with a stage 2+ revo map allbeit with higher numbers than your results.
Janner_Sy:
bacilus is right about the peak torque as well.
john_o:
@acespizee : thats some intake thanks for sharing , well done :happy2:.
In terms of 'smooth' curves though thats just how the software is set, easily manipulated, the graphs from various tuners vary widely in the smoothing applied (as do power readouts lol).
however the numbers seem very healthy. Have you been on any other dynos
@everyoneelse : whilst I would agree water intake is a potential problem on low flung intakes, its worth considering that this may be reduced significantly on any 'twin' design.
I may be corrected here, but on a
1 : single design if you block the intake (with water) theres no option but for it to hoover the H20 into the bores :surprised:
2 : twin design , the lower intake may 'block' and attempt to suck but never get very high
(it takes a lot of vaccum to raise water x inches) , whilst the upper intake is still open.
you need a closed system to have a real detrimental effect.
I would liken it to trying to drink some diet coke from a glass using a Y piece with only one of the 'twin' side in the glass.....
makes sense to me but Im no expert!?!
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