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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:57 pm 
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bry40l wrote:
if you do a search on these you will find some one asked a question a few weeks ago about this stuff and a company makes them for the ef/el/au but an exhaust place could make them


Are you able to find it and send the link on here? if you do that will be appreciated :)
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:11 pm 
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http://www.fordmods.com/ford-4l-and-6-cylinder-f1/e-series-polised-intake-piping-t105623.html?hilit=intake

 

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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:27 pm 
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This is only my own personal experience with my car with Dyno Sheet
This was not a couple of hundred bucks either - more like $1,000 lol
Did it for go and show & so i can take the headlight out at the drags ang get straight cold air

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Custom Air Box from Acron Plastics with K&N Pod inside
Modified Difillipo BA Intake HPC Coated
SS Big Mouth Induction Intake

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Before (171.7 rwkw RED) and After (BLUE) together
Power comes on earlier - More Torque - More Power
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:48 pm 
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Thanks man ur a champ :)
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:00 pm 
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BGS4MY wrote:
Phongas, how much did it cost you for the one piece pipe, you obviesly got an exhaust joint to do it for you yea?


Nah I bought it off someone else for too cheap to mention. I don't think it's one piece, but I have never really looked into it, may have been welded, then sanded down smooth.

Also note...it JUST fits. You have to cut down the mounting point on the BBM where the stock intake is mounted to. Even then, it rubs on the bonnet heat cover.

 

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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:09 pm 
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Yeaa i would imagine that it would be touching the bonnet
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:56 am 
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dont get an exhaust place to do it. They usually dont have the right welder to get the perfect weld.

I got this made by snort performance for $200 (might have gone up now). All I did was send a pic of phongs intake and he made it up. Its stainless with a couple welds then sanded down, barely noticeable though.

Could probably be adapted for a basic boost set-up later down the track too.

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Also that snorkel if from an XR6 Turbo - if its good enough for that then its more than enough for any non boosted 4L, you can fit your whole hand in it.
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:02 pm 
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That looks good as, where abouts is snort performance in melb?? Or did u get it send over here??
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:44 pm 
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Pacemaker intake pipe $300-400??.. as used in saloon car racing. Vid of a wagon with one fitted........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl1qwrX3cQk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

 

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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:18 pm 
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DiFilippo & Jim Mock sell off the shelf 3" intake for Eseries NA 6cyl which are ceramic coated but cost $395 each looks similar to what Snort did above

DiFilippo one here http://www.darrendifilippo.com.au/airintake.html

 

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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:47 am 
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rhys.c wrote:
dont get an exhaust place to do it. They usually dont have the right welder to get the perfect weld.



Excuse me but where did you get that load of crap from?

If you want a seamless looking pipe then all welds leave a bead which needs to be smoothed down, regardless of the process used.
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:04 pm 
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I just put on half of my intake, 2 straight pipes up to the elbow and a poddy connected to it, i can deffinetly feel a better acceleration responce, its such a pain to get the pody in the box, i got the fat Calibra one so its a bit tight, next few days get the 90 degree bent pipe and yeaa
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 Post subject: Re: Is it worth spending couple hundred of $$$ for an I6 intake?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:57 pm 
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I think in a round about kind of way he's trying to say most exhaust places would mig it up then polish it back, where-as to do it properly you would purge it with a tig so when you do polish it back theres still some weld left to hold it together.

Not sure if thats where he was going but that's my thought. Though most zorst shops have tigs these days anyway. That would be something you would work out upon purchase.

I'm a boily/fabricator so one on every car in my front yard cost me nothing, would I pay big dollars for a big one after noticing the difference ? definitely not. There's plenty of other ares I'm more interested in spending money on. Mostly associated with a positively charged inlet :D

It's a bit like a pod vs panel debate. there is a difference, but it's negligible.

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:39 pm 
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