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Originally Posted by mad monkey
Ok, you guys just need to stop all this offensive crap. Some people on here are friends of X and some people on here are friends of Ant and that just adding more fuel to the fire on being defensive on what's what. I agree on wanting to see a dyno along with a/f readings. I posted earlier that I'd be more than happy to throw X's current intake onto my car and take before and after dynos along with a/f readings. Hopefully we can get that done ASAP and post up some results.
Overall... X didn't come up with the idea of the MAF so I don't know why people are protecting him like he's a major company that patented the idea or something. The modification of the MAF has been long discussed in forums for cars previous ours and the same ideas and production have been presented. X was just nice enough to be the first to present his modification that made good gains in comparison to other intakes and would perform the service for a slight profit.
Ant just tried to improve it a bit as we would all do to avoid paying 300 or as said 125 for a modified MAF. Why is everyone bashing on him and saying he's just biting off of X's intake. First off its not X's intake whatsoever. To get technical he just has a custom intake period. So does Ant, period. Things started getting possesive as he began selling them. And the heatshield that Ant brought up is a very good idea. It would be even better to make a solid vent route up from the foglight hole up to the filter to help colder air pass by.
X did a good job by figuring out what needed to be done to gain more power and Ant added to it with the heatshield. Without the bashing through all of this you would have a very smooth SRI with a modified MAF along with one of the highest CFM flowing filters out there protected by a heatshield. That's it... nothing should be getting possessive unless AEM, Injen, Fujita, etc. are on here as they are actually figthing for patented names. We're just a bunch of people that want to do better with our mods plain and simple.
X... good luck and I'm looking forward to your DIY.
Ant... mad props for the free info and DIY on the heatshield.
All I'm gonna do to just let everyone know is ignore all the crap everyone's been saying since 80% of this thread is nothing but defensive statements on both ends, wait for X's DIY to see how he does his MAF.... make my own, and if I mess up I guess X will be selling another modded MAF, make the heatshield along with a vent coming up from the foglight hole and venting the filter a bit better.  Look what I just did! Took all the GOOD info out of this thread and basically made what may be the best SRI setup you can have! I think that's what everyone should do and jsut stop fighting for each other...  |
modded MAF have been a comon thing, im the 1st to attemp it on a Si and the first to find out correct angles... not all maf housings on cars are the SAME.. im just trying to disprove were ANT is clearly wrong, im glad hes not testing others peoples cars with this because he has noway of motioring whats going on. heres a quick test i did to disprove on his statement about the Si tube being bigger...
i mainly use the CRV tube because its straighter and slightly bigger which helps with throttle response. going super big like ANT did with his 3 inch will eventually cause MAF overload voltage. maxing it out and burning the sensor, and actually decreasing the throttle response because the ECU parameters are not ment to stretch for that kind of instant volume. this is why most aftermarket companies take care of were there sensor mount is place. who puts a 3 inch hose on a small throttle body,
CRV tube is on the left, Si on the right
the water in the jars shows how much water each tube can hold.. the CRV tube is clearly larger.
now to the filter. i DYNO tested just about every filter on this set up... GUESS WHAT, the APEXi owns in every way. plus i like that fact that the senor never gets dirty with a apex... with all other filters you will be hurting your sensor over time... the apex is nice and small, and it takes a K&N thats almost twice the size to achieve the same CFM's if you want a cheap filter then go with the filter. it at least has a air horn on the top.
the intake stand that i supply is made outta of 304 stainless steel.. it will outlast your car. i understand hes trying to make it look like this mod is a walk in the park, if it was i would have told you so.. i am the most willing person here to help some fellow si owner out in anyway i can. DIY filming will continue tomorrow.