should i get an intake or exhaust first? - Page 2

merdy05 · 2005-07-04 17:37:43

hyundais and kias got good warranty policies, hmmm they might be better cars b/c of that ;) for the record, i believe hyundai was actually better then average on the last reliability survey...

07-15-2005, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Fanman

Revi from Racing Beat right now (though AEM just came out with theirs). K&N makes lots of claims, but dynoes have shown that it is complete crap. Some people were actually LOSING hp. They have a new design coming out (probably because their other one failed so miserably) and in tuner it gave about 3-4 hp, not 9 hp though.

Perhaps so, but that's the old K&N Typhoon. K&N has a brand new intake for the RX-8 with a carbon fibre heat shield. They're running adds in car mags saying 10 hp on the RX-8, guaranteed! But the July Import Tuner did a test with the new K&N intake and also the RB exhaust, the results were marginal. If I recall correctly, around 3 or 4 hp for the K&N intake and only around 1.5 hp for the RB exhaust. The RB exhaust also weighs 10 lbs more than stock, so it's really a wash. The look and sound is what one is mostly paying for.

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