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Old 10-17-2003, 12:55 PM   #14 (permalink)
fmshaw1971
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Originally posted by yield


Do you even know anything about that companY?
Nope, not at all which is why I prefaced my remark by saying that I hope they did the proper R&D on it before producing it.

There are many companies that slap something together out of carbon fiber and everyone assumes it's better. Not at all. This looks like a quality intake, but you never know. That's all I'm saying.

For instance, I just looked at the Weapon R site at their ram air intake system. It's a joke! They attach the ram air portion to the SRI intake filter with a damned dryer hose. Dryer hoses have huge hills and valleys where the plastic stretches over the metal skeleton. When air passes over that, it forms little vortices in every valley. That's horrible for airflow, but the jokers who designed it didn't know or care. I wouldn't be surprised if it actually hurt your performance.

My point is, you can't just slap something together and hope it will improve performance. You need to hire a team of nerds with sliderules to calculate everything for months. If the designers of that intake measured every possible runner length for top performance and flow characteristics then it's a good piece.
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