I didnt really know where to ask this. So i decided to ask the fellow Sedan owners.

I found this on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/03-06...QQcmdZViewItem

Looks like it would take the place of a ztube and popcharger. it goes for 17dollars with 22 shipping and if you notice this ebay store has sold over 1000 items and has 99% feedback

Is this real?

EDIT: Found another unbelievable deal http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/03-04...QQcmdZViewItem

 

I'm not sure what you don't get? It's a polished Ztube and a cone filter. I'm not sure where the "is this for real" comes from other than maybe the cost. They seem to have good feedback - read the responses on the feedback and see what you think.

 

you dont think its surprisingly cheap? for a ztube and cone filter since the ztube alone is 100$ and a cone filter is around 40$

i just dont want to have cheap or fake parts if thats possible...

 

^ It's not an OEM Ztube and they aren't a name brand company so I wouldn't buy them myself for those reasons doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the product but if you consider the cost of materials and the price they are selling them at and they have to make a profit it all boils down to a cheap intake instead of a good deal in my book.

 

It's Ebay. You never know where people have gotten things from. Hell sometimes people are just trying to get rid of things they have too much of. Who knows?

 

Its legit dude. The filter is a crappy made in china for .99 cents. The tube is fine, its made the same as the $300 intakes. Basically you could just get the intake and buy a better filter and it would be equivalent to a an expensive setup.

 

But how do you know tube is real i am not worried about the filter because i can get one somewhere else.


I would also like to point out that for both of these auctions they have sold over 1000 parts and have 99% good feedback

 

LOL you serious dude? You are asking if the tube is real? What do you think its fake paper mache? Its a metal tube, if you have a tube bender you can make one yourself. The cost of that metal tube is probably a buck a foot in china and the cost to bend it is probably.20 cents in china. If you are asking if its a real Z tube, then no its not a real "z tube." Z tube refers to the OEM tube in the z before the tb.

 

well would it have the same performance as the ztube

 

lol

 

Yeah it is real. Just goes to show you how much these guys make off us on the name brand intakes. Yes the JWT does also has the heat shield but I bet they make at least 200% on every one sold.

 

Last time I checked, the injen, aem, nismo intake tube are no special tubes. They look pretty and have the brand, but if you own one, you can just see that they are regular metal tubes. I would say get that intake tube, buy a 3" or 2 1/2" K&N cone air filter and call it a day. And you can also purchase the bypass valve separately as well from AEM. The only thing I would worry about with these tubes are not actually the materials itself, but the fitment of them. The other companies spend $$$$$$ on R&D and their fitments are perfect, unless these people copied straight from the other company's R&D, they're gonna require a lot of modifications to fit right. Good luck.

 

on the auctions they say fits 05 sedan do you still think there can be fitment problems...

 

If you take the intake "a," install it on 3 different G35s and dyno all 3 of them they will get different numbers. So when you are only making a few hp the different intakes don't make much of a difference.

Honestly on my last car I had 3 different intakes and my ghetto made ebay one made the most butt dyno power. I had a stillen ram air, injen and an ebay intake with K&N filter. I was probably more satisfied with the ebay one too because I only spent 20 bucks for the tubing and $50 for the filter. You usually get what you pay for, but with intakes, your filter is the most important part and usually when buying more expensive intakes, your payin for the name.

 

Thanks for that input