Track is useless since it's installed and you have other mods too. Comparing two track results is like comparing apples to oranges or dynos to dynos.

 

I guess your right on that point but who are you to tell me that my car wasn't faster with the intake on. Just like comparing track to track maybe my car did get slightly faster where others didn't whose to say. It's all opinions anyways. I'm just saying I FELT not heard a big difference. Anyone wanna take a ride let me know. More than happy to go for a spin to see if a person would like a product that I do.

 

Engine laws are engine laws, if an intake yields 10 hp on your car, it should yield similar gains on a car with the same mods as you. What I'm talking about are differences due to differences of location. My car does not make as much power as a WRX at sea level. Similarly it does not make as much power in the summer as it does in the winter. As I said, feeling and hearing are closely related, much like taste and smell. Your senses do not act independently of each other, they work together. This is why people can get car sick just watching TV.

 

Very true I understand the location issue. I live at alittle over 3500 feet and can run almost a half second faster at the track 30 mins. away at 1300 feet. Plus weather and temp play rolls. My question is why if the car wasn't going to go any faster do almost every tuner in the world by an intake when they first get their car and start modding. I has to do a little more than just make noise I would like to think or me as well as many others have been part of a huge con game.

 

That's untrue, not every tuner in the world recommends an intake as the first mod. Go look in the evo forums, people are explicitly told by tuners not to buy an intake because it does nothing for their car (in this case an evo). I suspect there are two main reasons why people want to get an intake or catback exhaust as their first mod. Firstly, from a technical aspect it makes sense. The stock airbox looks restrictive and one would assume that if you open it up, the car will get more air in and make more power. The second reason is because it's been so hammered into the psyche of people that it's just become the standard response. The counterargument to the first statement is what proof is there that the stock airbox is actually restricting power? How do we know the car is starving for air? It could in fact be taking in all the air it can right now. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, I liked my intake when I had the car even if it did nothing.

 

True it is driven in to everybodies head. For the last six or seven years since I really got into modding and imports that's all I've heard. And true whose to say that the car is struggling to get air. Would Mitsu put a strain on the car? Probably not. Then is it just marketing or a money ploy that an intake was the first part put out for this car. I mean it has to have some validity to it. No hard feelings or anything. Maybe I just need to be more educated on the real route to go about tuning then.

 

It was probably the first part out because it's the easiest to make and one of the mods that everyone does because it's so ingrained into the community.

 

understandable. we all gotta make a living somehow.

 

Agreed. This is why intake and muffler are the first modifications available for pretty much every car out there.

FWIW, I'm happy with the RRM SRI.

 

I can definitely feel a difference in power between +35C and -10C. Of course it might be in my head lol.
It would be interesting to know how many HP difference there is.

 

Has anyone moderately accurately tested the 0-60 times yet, before & after the SRI install, under the same conditions?

PS: Please no flames? I see when the last post was. This seemed like the most appropriate place to post the question.

 

Rob from RRM did the test.
EvoM user show time (an admitted RRM fanboy) did the test.

No one else that I've seen. I tried it, but I couldn't get consistent results.

 

Dangit. Ok, thanks. I'll keep an eye out. This info could make the difference between me getting a GTS or waiting for the new RA.