Induction kits

what version of directX are u running?

Dead Easy, The more expensive it is , the louder the noise it makes, and the amount of money you have just wasted is greater !

Because the perceived 'improvement' is directly proportional to the amount by which your wallet is lightened. If you're stupid enough to buy these things.

The more expensive ones usually have little flashing LED's that go across the Grille.......KEWL.

JK

None. But if you don't buy a full kit, then you aren't gonna be able to attatch the cone (unless you're very lucky, and it just "fits").

Kit is a kit - comes with all fixings and required pipes.

About =A35 worth of plastic or corrugated foil pipe, a few hose clips and= =20 a fancy anodised aluminium trumpet

--=20 The poster formerly known as Skodapilot.

The filter is MUCH easier to change. The induction kit really needs a cold air intake for it to be effective. The induction kit will effect your insurance. The noise will also be more with the induction kit. I'd go for the filter!

Cripes. Ask a simple question and you get so many stupid answers.

Thanks for this one. So whats the point of the cone itself if you cant fit it on without all the pipes/fittings? Can you get those seperately? The price difference is quite steep.

I was thinking of getting an Apiro air filter which costs around 35 but I don't know if I'll be able to fit it on.

Cheers.

The kit includes the mounting plates and brackets (adapter) needed to fit it to the air intake.

You get lots of stupid answers because most things like this give you little or no performance increase.

They are cosmetic 'go faster' accessories.

I thought the whole point was to make more noise?

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Why?

It has a nice name?

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And a proven track-record (in relieving teenagers of their dosh).

It allows the manufacturers to screw you twice.

I asked a similar question when I bought my 190E 2.6 (NOTE: Not as a bot racr), and got a lot of people telling me that a K&N filter would improve the longevity of my engine by cleaning the air more compleatly. What that a heap of bull?

DV

Moooo!!!!

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Almost certainly. The filtration efficiency of paper filters is more than adequate for engine use and anyway, engines usually outlast the bodyshell these days - and have done for some years.

Look, basically a "freeflow" air filter will slightly improve the breathing of the engine. Indeed many respected tuning houses will recommend fitting one of these but in conjuction with other mods, like a sports exhaust manifold and system, a hotter cam and a different fuel set up.

You might get, what, an extra 1bhp from your engine? The long pipe induction kit is usually used as underbonnet bling, and because it's metal it resonates differently under acceleration. So you get more noise.

It's usually more beneficial to make your own long ducting (from salvaged intake trunking at the scrapyard) to a so-called cone filter somewhere in cold fast airflow - like to the side and in front of the radiator by an open intake in whatever body mouling your car has got. It costs very little. These things attach with little more than jubilee clips. If you're orifice diameters don't match up simply sleeve with more or less trunking. It's only air that you're guiding not an fuel/air mixture. As long as the unions are reasonably secure, and you're working upstream of things like airflow meters etc then you'll be fine with DIY.