The outside video you can't hear, but the inside video sounds so bad ***. I almost started humping an inanimate object!

 

thanks, I love the sound It really turns heads when you go by people.

Sorry I haven't had any more time results or video's the weather hasn't been very permitting. It seriously has been raining almost every day for 2 weeks now. If everything goes as planned, this Friday my friend and I are gonna go to the track, and he's going to record a couple more videos for me. I'll also have some conclusive time slips to see how much the intake actually helped on paper.
If you calculate your 1/4 mile time, trap speed, and vehicle weight, you can get a estimate flywheel horsepower.

 

Any updates on times with the V2 since July 5th? Just following up to see if there really is any difference performance wise between the original and the V2. Definelty a price difference...........

 

Just went to have the v2 installed last friday at rrm on a 09 DE.

The funny story is that my wife drove the whole time that day. She kept on complaining that the sound is not as good as my 04 ES SRI from RRM. So I drove the car and figured out the problem. She wasn't flooring the gas pedal. When I did floor the gas pedal, the engine came alive, the deep 8 cyclinder big block sound came out of the little 4 cylinder engine. It was truly amazing.

I did make some observations, the chrome pipe that connects the SRI gets really hot. Although I'm not sure if the volume of air passing through the pipe negates this issue. What do you think Rob?

I noticed that the filter can push in further into the chrome pipe or be pulled out further. Does this make a difference? Should it be as close to the edge of the pipe as possible?

 

Alright, So I got out to the track finally. Awesome night, I even made it to the semi-finals in the handicap racing event they had, made 20 bucks . Unfortunately their time slip machine was broken... completely this time, no slips at all. So I don't have any of my Mph's, R/T's or, 1/8 mile times. I had my friend in the stands text me my time after each run.

However the intake DEFINITELY helped in the 1/4 mile. Each run I made, it took off anywhere from .5 - .35 seconds off of my 1/4 mile times and added about 3mph to the trap speed. So, as an estimate it gave me around a 5-7hp gain. The air was warm and humid too that night. Not too bad, but the heat WAS was getting to it after you make a few consecutive runs, that chrome pipe gets REALLY hot and it starts slowing down.

What happened was - In the beginning of the night, there were a lot of cars in each class to run before me, so there was a lot of time for the engine to cool after each run. By the semi-finals there were only a few cars in each class left, and I had made 3 runs almost back-to-back. It was getting hot, it ran way slower than my dial-in time, and I ended up losing.

Overall, In comparison to the other aftermarket Air intakes on the market right now, I'd say its worth the money to get, if not just for the sound alone. 219$ is reasonable, although SRI's for other cars tend to be in the 150$ or less range. Its just because there just aren't many out there for it yet.

 

aha i was right!. but thats still some nice gains, good work man

 

yeah i want to know if there is a diff between the 2..i have teh first original one..and im trying to decide weather to get the SRI or the Injen CAI... the CAI has more hp but its across a wide rang of rpms while the SRI is mostly giving you low end where we need it...so i dunno im trying to find somone who has tried both CAI and SRI

 

Well i can tell you that there is a wrap you can get for the pipe that keeps it cold. As for the filter i would say having it at the tip is better due to the fact that air come in across the whole filter. If you push it up futher you will only be effectively using like half your filter. At least I would think so.

 

Like the kind of thermal tape/wrap you put on headers? Doesn't that just keep the heat inside it so it doesn't spread to the rest of the compartment. If that would work for the intake, I might give it a try even if it looks fugly .

I have my filter on the edge of the pipe, I'd imagine having it pushed in would also make air get caught along the sides of the pipe and not get sucked into it, which would make it work like crap.

 

I read some of this, and i have mine pushed all the way on, now having it on the end of the pipe makes more sense. Clear this up for us RRM? Im guessing the flow wouldnt be affected, but yes, you would only be using half the filter it would seem.

 

Just some food for thought, those time differences could easily be because of factors other than the intake like tire grip or more likely driver skill.

 

Well. This car doesn't have the power to spin the tires at all, at least with the CVT, So grip isnt an issue with me. My skill hasn't changed since the last time I went out to the track, I was shifting and launching the same. But like it IS just an estimate, not a dyno tested gain.
Regardless, it does help performance without a doubt, and makes the car sound pretty nice from inside the cabin.

 

I agree, I love the sound coming from it. When i order my exhaust from RRM in a couple weeks, it should only help. I do seem to be getting slightly better gas mileage.

 

Obviously a difference between the CVT and a Manual then! I can smoke the tires off the line, and "make them bark" shifting into second. It all seems to come back to the sound of the SRI though, rather then out right performance. That is exactly why I got rid of my SRI..........little to no performance and lots of noise! " All bark, and no bite!"

 

Yeah, The computer in the CVT only lets you rev to 2.5k rpm while you hold the brake and press the gas.
You can smoke the tires in almost any car with a M/T because you can rev it to 4-5k, let off the clutch, and let em spin.

I personally like the sound, even though it makes it sound WAY faster than the car actually is, its still a little more fun to drive.