Nope. All it will do is suck in warm air from the engine bay, but will give you a nice throaty roar sound that will make you feel like you're driving a fire breathing monster ;-)
None.
Buy a better car with a bigger engine...preferably not a Saxo.
Ever driven a 'hot' Saxo? As a nippy runaround for younger types, they're great, they handle well, and they go well. They just have a bad rep (mainly from people who've never driven one...)
Remove all unnecessary weight, spare wheel, tool kit, interior trim, sound proofing, almost empty washer bottle, no stereo, no speakers, drill holes in inside of all non structural panels (doors, tailgate, etc). For only the price of a holesaw and some of your time it will noticeably improve acceleration times.
On a Saxo, you might get a slight change in the throttle response from a jazzy replacement filter for the standard airbox. It still won't actually make your car any noticeably faster.
Personally I wouldn't bother with any sort of induction kit, as many of the Peugeots and Citroens I have worked on actually have some form of cold air induction as standard, usually a dirty big pipe into the air filter housing from somewhere in front of the radiator. I don't have direct experience of a 2001 Saxo VTR though.
In order of cheapness/easyness to do: Fit a tyre/wheel combo which has a smaller overall circumference. Fit a gearbox with lower ratios. Engine swap (wouldn't go there, just buy the VTS like you actually wanted in the first place you cheapskate (c; ). Forced induction.
No, an induction kit won't. You'll get a noisy roar, hot air, and probably slower performance. Especially afterbeing sat in traffic where heatsoak will be worst.
The single limiting factor on both the VTR and VTS is the crap stock manifold and exhaust system.
Fitting a decent 4-2-1 manifold and system will release 10-15bhp on both engines. Throw in a live-mapped chip and this will be 5-8hp more with abig boost in the mid-range torque.
I havn't even read the rest of the replies here but i'm assuming they will all be pisstakes.
There are only a feew induction kits worth buying and they aren't cheap.
1 - Green enclosed
2 - BMC carbon enclosed
Expect to pay £150-£200 and you will still only see a very small increase in performance (when I had a green enclosed on my sax it saw about 3bhp) (yay!!)
As the other have no doubt told you, on a car like yours, the cone style inductuion kits are a waste of time....they simply make noise.
All VTR and VTS saxos have this, the are set up quite well.
If you have the money then ...
1 - Buy a VTS
2 - Go to the lads at pug-performance and have throttlebodies, cams and a remap. Or a supercharger (rotrex) if you have money coming out of your ears, very fast but break a lot.
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