Hey



I have a question. I have a Fujita cone filter with the oem inlet hose.

My question basically is: if i change the oem inlet hose with perrin's or cobb's.. will it be a good setup? Would it be basically an aftermarket cai?

hp gains wise... will there be a big difference between changing just the inlet hose than and changing the whole intake?


Thanks,

ice91

 

It will be a short ram intake (all you need for a turbo car since your intercooler acts as your "CAI".

Changing the filter and inlet will essentially be a whole "intake" except the maf housing will remain stock (which IMO is a good idea, I have heard changing mad housing does not mesh well with our cars) your gains will be small regardless( tho spool and BOV sound will be loud.)

I have the Cobb inlet pipe and it's a quality piece.

 

Only real difference you're going to get is the BOV and intake being louder actually. Not much hp gains there as he has said. Does make you smile pretty big first time you here the bov loud though if you haven't heard it lol I would try to stay in the general market though if you plan on tuning with the AP. Don't "rig" it too much since it's based on specific intakes. Pro tune wouldn't matter though.

 

thanks a lot...

i think im going to tune it locally... right now the car sits with AMS UICP, the fujita cone filter, hbc manual boost controller, UR dp, testpipe and downpipe. I should be receiving the UR intercooler pretty soon including the UR LICP.

I was just trying to see what else is missing on the car before i put all the pieces and tune it. Thought it was a good idea to replace the inlet hose without having to buy the whole intake.


THANKS

 

Ok then it shouldn't be a probelm. It's always a good idea to ask your tuner what he thinks will be best for him, since he is the one tuning it. I would go with what he says in the end!

 

you have all that on your car without a tune?? I am not a professional when it comes to the evo x but I know a lot about cars and im pretty sure you are going to cause damage, especially with the test pipe and downpipe! These two pieces control how fast the turbo can get rid of spent gas and therefore you car is probably overboosting and causing a lean condition. Again im not 100% because im just talking generalities but im pretty sure! The manual boost controller might be helping but it is not a fail safe.

 

I'd get that car tuned ASAP.

Your plans seem solid, though.

 

jaja sorry the car is tuned, but i want to get it re-tuned since its boosting 29psi on a stock turbo. Dont really think that is good for reliability. so im not really driving it aggressively until its done right.

 

Thats what I was thinking!!

OP- How long have you had the car like this? Also, who helped you install these and didnt recommend you getting it tuned immediately?? Pretty much any of your mods done even by themselves should require a tune and you have ALL of them on your car at once without a tune...Not good my man! You should see some nice power and much smoother power delivery after a tune...I would wait on any other mods and either get a cobb AP and OTS map or get some open source tuning software and have a professional tune!