Hey Folks,

Newbie to the site. So, I hope i posted in the right spot. I have a 2008 G35 Sport and I was looking into getting some aftermarket parts for it to boost the HP. What would be your recommendations for cold air intakes? Also, if I got a new exhaust system, I don't want it to be incredibly loud, but rather a deeper tone when accelerating. Any recommendations there? What parts would be needed (i.e. high flow cat)? Any other area I would need to look at in increasing the HP? Any recommended brake systems or wheels? I am looking at wheels with a black trim and silver finish (the car is silver).

Thanks for all the help!

 

have u done ur research here? there are TONS of threads for everything u asked about

 

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Welcome to the site, just browse the tech section here, all the sub-forums have plenty of reviews, suggestions, tips, etc.
https://g35driver.com/forums/tech-v36-sedan-291/

 

Your HP gains for installing intakes are so minimal that it doesn't matter. Any long tube CAI will have a risk of sucking up water since they sit closer to the bumper instead of behind the radiator. I would recommend R2C intakes.

 

Wecome to the G community. So your saying you dont want to be loud but you want HFC? That is pretty loud when you get on it. But i like fast intention set up. Has a very nice sound. I can tell you that the f.i hfc added 15hp to the wheels. I did a before and after dyno on them.

 

^I have R2C intakes and didn't notice any significant change in speed therefore I wouldn't recommend that unless you only want the sound. Some intakes for our car would actually decrease HP as some had shown from their dyno results. From what I remember the ones that had shown some gain were the R2C, JWT pop charger, and injen? Not sure about stillen intakes but for HP gain I would go straight for the FI HFC.

 

Just to add some possible perspective here for our new member, I seem to recall that there was some discussion in another thread a while back about the 'relativity' of your particular dyno numbers blue. Bottom line, I don't think your results serve as a general representation of what would be considered typical. Instead, they fall decidedly into what could be referred to as the 'optimistic' range.


btw, welcome TexasCash


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Thanks folks! I appreciate your thoughts. And... Thanks for the welcome.

 

You can hate all you want. HFC does increase HP. Everyone knows that church automotive dyno reads high. Would you rather i go to another dyno and dish out some numbers?

 

1) Calm down, there's no hating here, just keeping it real.

2) I never said HFC's do not increase HP.

3) I'm glad to hear you acknowledge this here, as it seems to be conveniently left out of your numerous (no less than 8 times!!) posts where you claim a lofty number and quickly add that you "have the before and after dyno to prove it".

4) I could care less whether you do or not, but you might want to consider whether potentially misleading people really serves anyone but yourself.

I know everyone wants to feel good about the mods they have done to their cars and the gains they've acheived, but at the end of the day, if there is a (known) distortion/exageration and you post it all over the place you are potentially impacting other people's decisions about how to best spent their hard earned dollars. If it's SO important to you to feel good about your numbers that you can't see that, then I guess you're just going to keep doing what you're doing. I'm sorry if my pointing that out feels like hating to you, as that is not really my agenda. I care far more about preventing new and unsuspecting buyers from being disappointed with THEIR results after spending THEIR money; that is all.

 

The reason i post what the increase was b/c the company advertised it to be 20hp gain. I just proved it to be less.

And to save money i do recommend buying 2nd hand parts.

 

^ He's also the guy who claims that he can hook you up with a guy who can get you into a new G for less than sticker price, even though nearly every single dealer will let you get a G below sticker...lol

This guy is a salesman! Never trust them.

 

Although that's not exactly what they claimed, that is just typical marketing hyperbole for them to state their gains the way that they did.

According to their website: http://www.fastintentions.com/index....th=41_50_67_69, they only claim their HFC's gain an average of nearly 20 whp when used in conjunction with their full cat-back exhaust system. However, if you then look up their cat-back system, it claims to have gains of an average of nearly 11 whp over the stock cat-back. Typically gains are never directly additive, but their own statements would imply that the HFC's alone only add just 9 whp, NOT 20! . . . and not the 15 or 16 you've been reporting.

 

Different dyno is all i am going to say. I am not going to spend 100 bucks to test out every dyno. But now i am going to be on the dyno jet.