Who said anything about drag racing, and since when does an intake and BOV help you get around the road course? I happily lap people on the road course using all of my 350whp and my perfectly stock suspension with a nice set of tires. I also drag race quite well and autocross very well. My extra power helps me in all racing venues. An HKS SSQV and Arc intake will only make your Evo worse than stock.

 

I dont understand..... i have never heard of a bad intake because of a hard MAF pipe... i thought they were only bad when you get one with no tune??

 

I like to have a clean looking engine bay. I like the way the hks BOV w/pipe looks but I want something that performs excellent. Since you said the hks bov is a no no, What do you recommend that looks good and performs well???

 

Bluetuscani04 the HKS is a nice piece as is the ARC. If those are the parts you would like them buy them. HKS bov sounds awesome. You can also look into getting the HKS EIDS to smooth the signal from the MAS.

The Forge RS is also a great bov. It does recirc, but you can hear it very well with an aftermarket intake.

 

Where the hell do you come up with this information. An HKS bov and ARC intake will destroy your motor

Funny how I was running a Turbo XS RFL and "hard pipe" intake un-tuned and my motor is still kicking at 41k.

Everyone needs to hop of this guy and let him get whatever the hell he wants.

Can we please help this guy and answer his question and not flame him...

 

Bluetuscani04
Yeah, don't mind what other people say on these forums. Do what you want to do.
Seems like 90 percent of the people here are just followers and worker ants.
I also think that the HKS SSBOV is the best sounding BOV and would love to have it, but VTA isn't very good for our cars. We need a recircing BOV and that takes away most of the cool psshh sound. lol.
Like althemean said, The Dual vent of the APS seems like a good choice, andwould probably sounds "cooler" then a full recirc.
Back to your main question, does the hks upper intercooler pipe work with the factory airbox? If it does, it should work with the ARC, since the ARC uses factory mounting, and
factory MAF pipe.

I agree with the first part, An HKS SSQV, while it does sound badass, will make your Evo worse then stock, but he's wrong about the ARC. Unless Wartalon has bought, and put on an ARC on his Evo, drove it around, and dyno'd it like I have, he has no idea about how the ARC will affect an Evo.

When I put on my ARC, I gained over 15whp, but the car ran a little leaner. So I recommend getting a tune, or atleast a Super AFC, if you plan on getting an intake such as the ARC. The stock BOV sounds much better with the ARC, and throttle response, and top end feel a lot better. (Confirmed by the dyno)

Wartalon's hero, Al, from dynoflash, also agrees that a intake helps make power.
https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=82047

Well sorry for the long thread, and hope you found something useful from it.
BTW I also went from a Tuscani to An Evo IX. Got to admit, they are worlds apart.

 

I guess I should have been more clear on that. Sorry. Yes...hard MAF pipe with no tune will run bad, from what I hear.

From personal experience, a K&N cone filter with a MAF adaptor on my 05 did not cause any undesirable issues to me. It increased the sound of the turbo spool and the sound of the stock BOV/APS BOV. I managed a 13.49@101.6 with a 2.03 60' with that setup plus a JIC catback and nothing else. Dynoed on the same day before I went to the track on a dyno dynamics @ 248.9whp

 

wow cry me a river.......wait let me find my shovel, so i can help you dig. you want straight answers, dont b!tch.

 

now thank you a constructive answer i appericate that

 

as is every fourm its ok

 

To me it seems like this guy wants to toss in parts without tuning for it, and on top of that he really doesn't want performance parts....he just wants to make noise so your telling me that adding a vta bov, intake, and god knows whatever other parts are going in without a tune on a otherwise stock car will be safe??? I think not. I have seen first hand what stupid noise making mods do to a car. This thread was pointless....I did a simple search and came up will a million threads about vta bov's and intakes, if the thread starter did this he would have found out on his own that those mods are worthless and will cause negative affects. But you guys are telling him to do what he wants which in this case is wrong. To hell with it right? just go get the bov and whatever other ricer mod....

 

An HKS bov that holds boost very well and also has a nice sound is ricer...I don't think so.

 

Why does everyone get so worked up about BOV anyways?? I still dont understand that.

 

I think it has to do with the personalities of the Evo owners asking the question. "My car will sound haWt with a mad tyte BOV, y0!" I love my Evo and would never add a modification that would hamper performance, or add something that will need to be "worked around". So when everyone sees someone that doesn't have the same love/admiration for the car's performance they get offended.

I had a Blitz DD on my 240sx w/ SR20 and it was terrible. Unfortunately on the SR, when you add a FMIC you loose the stock recirc valve and you have to add a BOV. I switched to a HKS SQV (not SSQV) and it worked better but was a ***** to tune since partial throttle was not accepted well by the BOV.

 

i... just... couldn't help but respond to the earlier flaming...

anyone who buys an evo and drag races it should be shot. so if you have a 1/4 time and mph posted in your sig, please do us all a favor and sell your evo. these cars were not born nor ever intended to run up and down a stupid 1/4 mile strip of pavement all day long. they were also never intended to run around an autocross curcuit, but we all can't go rally and autocross sure beats a 1/4 mile strip, doesn't it? let's stop the argument and realize the SSQV and other dual-stage BOV's are made for throttle on/off response and not for idling... because honesly, who cares about idle when you can lap tsukuba in under a minute?

autox/rally: driver skill > car ability
drag racing: car ability > what driver skill?