Hey guys, my cousin just gave me a Z-Tube, and i was wondering if i kept the stock filter the stock box...and i just added the z-tube will I get the whole intake sound difference? Or do i need to buy a pop charger?

 

DEFINITELY get the pop charger........ no question.

thats what i did.

 

thats but....i just want to know what type of sound i would get with a stock z-tube and the stock filter setup

 

ya it will be louder... the ztube dosent have the sound baffles like the gtube

 

it won't be a notcable difference.

 

I respectfully disagree.

As you can see, I have the Z tube + K&N drop in. I did them both at the same time & feel the engine sounds much better under load. Just after 3k rpm it sounds a little deeper & a lot nastier.
Just realize that there is little to no HP gains & you won't notice a thing until you get up there in the rpm's.
(I have the MD 5/16 spacer sitting in my garage waiting for the weekend. It should sound even better by Sat afternoon.)

Klubbheads: Maybe you can't hear the difference of the engine b/c of your custom exhaust?

 

with the Z tube and stock box you WILL hear a difffernce above 3k rpm. good "stealth" modification. with a new intake, you will hear it all over the place.

 

I have a 2004 6mt I didn't notice much of a sound difference.. All it really does IMO is a little bit better gas MPG and that never hurts!

 

I had it with the stock exhaust too. It didn't make a noticable difference. The reason i put the z-tube because i hated the G-tubes resonated plasting being there.

 

sounds like you dont rev your car all that much.

 

Actually I beat on it daily, just didn't notice that much sound difference.

 

We are talking about just a Z-tube with stock intake!!!

 

I heard a big difference in sound Z tube w/ stock intake. you just wont notice it until 3 or 4k rpm at WOT. Even my friends noticed it.

 

when u punch it.....the car already screams at 3k so its just going to scream louder at 3k lol...im picking it up today and ima bolt it on...and ima go get pulled over lol

 

The very first thing I did to my car was to change into Z-tube and buy a drop in K&N filter. I still have the OEM filter so when I clean the K&N I drop the OEM filter for a day until the other one dries.
About sound I did not notice that much a difference.