i bought my car about 2 weeks ago, and im thinking of getting an injen intake w/ either the FI Intimidator Exhaust or the Stillen Dual Cat-bak Exhaust as my first mod. After that, im thinkin of the Kinetix intake manifold. anyone here have any experience with it? goods? bads?

 

people are gonna tell you its not worth it unless your going FI

i got a used one if you are interested though .. only used for about id say 3k miles or less .. its at a friends house ... looking around 700 bucks + shipping .. forgot what kind of conditon its in so the price could drop

 

I'm not sure on N/A but I have seen boosted cars loose power with it.

 

the thing is, im look at my mods in this order: 1. intake, 2. plenum spacer+mrev2, 3. exhaust, 4. headers, 5. sway bars, and after that i dont know. im planning to keep my car NA until i run out of mods to add, then i plan on going FI. so i guess it would be better to wait until i went FI for the intake manifold?

 

they lost power with it??? thats hard to believe, being that it opens up that whole section where the plenums use to be.

 

is the reason the intake is showing power loss because of the fact that there is too much air going in therefor too much back pressure for the stock exhaust. Just a thought

 

I haven't seen any boosted cars loose power with the ssv manifold - unless they were trying to drive untuned. I have seen every single NA motor loose power with this manifold though, regardless of a tune or not.

-Sean

 

this is off topic but what do u guys think of individual throttle bodies for a NA setup

 

Bad idea unless you have cams and the cam timing to match them. Even if you do get the cams, ITB's are typically high RPM power producers, not really where you want it on a street car. If you are making a drag G with a 5K stall, they would work pretty well.

 

Do they have a ITB kit for the vq motor? I haven't seen one, but im sure if they made one top secret would have it.

-Sean

 

Yep, TS has it http://www.topsecretjpn.com/products/vq35itbx.jpg

Looks good, but for 6 grand, why? 20HP? Maybe?

 

No air filters or anything? Wouldn't the thing only suck in hot air since it has no outside air source?

-Sean

 

It's a race only setup. Typically used with a hood cowl or intake.

 

I have the injen cai,stillen td ,strup headers,crawford hf cats,aam spacer and ur pulley with a reflash. run mid 13's consistantly with this set up, had it on the dyno last weekend @ function tuned it did 286.0rwhp corrected.

 

Jouvert what year/body/Trans is your car? Thats awesome mods to run mid 13's... =)