most intakes take like half an hour to install.

Yea it pulls nicely, def. an improvement over stock. As for the install, it's pretty cake, I didn't feel like fucking with sticking my arms into engine so I just took the bumper off. That is what took the longest.

well guys it took me pretty long 1.30 minutes. My cuzn got a gti You think hell spank my spec ? lol idk man GTIS are pretty fast with the DSG. BUT THIS INTAKE SURE ADDED ALOTTA HP to the WHEELS

SE-REN wrote:

well guys it took me pretty long 1.30 minutes. My cuzn got a gti You think hell spank my spec ? lol idk man GTIS are pretty fast with the DSG. BUT THIS INTAKE SURE ADDED ALOTTA HP to the WHEELS

SE-REN wrote:

well guys it took me pretty long 1.30 minutes. My cuzn got a gti You think hell spank my spec ? lol idk man GTIS are pretty fast with the DSG. BUT THIS INTAKE SURE ADDED ALOTTA HP to the WHEELS

Should have added between 37 and 43 horses to the wheels on your spec, from that intake. I wouldn't worry about the GTI.

Zankoku wrote:

ProZach626 wrote:

SE-REN wrote:

well guys it took me pretty long 1.30 minutes. My cuzn got a gti You think hell spank my spec ? lol idk man GTIS are pretty fast with the DSG. BUT THIS INTAKE SURE ADDED ALOTTA HP to the WHEELS

Should have added between 37 and 43 horses to the wheels on your spec, from that intake. I wouldn't worry about the GTI.

I'm tired of you guys disrespecting our vehicles and low-balling our numbers.  The Injen CAI EASILY adds 93-103 whp to the wheels.  It also raises your potential of getting laid by 43%.  So, if you don't know what you're talking about, you need to keep your mouth shut!

damn, I need to put my now 143% potential to work... oh wait the doorbell just rang and i hear like 6 women outside.  they love my car.  I'll give details later

whatever i can get nowadays... yeah, not really

what year is the GTI.  06+ GTI's are imo way better, if not uglier, than previous years.  My friend sherry has one and it runs like a motherfucker.

A non FI/spraying/VQ swapped spec does not stand a chance against the new supercharged GTI's. It's not worth burning the gas, to get beat. You can keep dreaming, though.

Ya Guys Mine Is The Se-r, B16 With The Greddy Exhaust And An Injen Cai .  The Guy With The Gti Didnt Want To Race His Like Ima Wait Till My Car Breaks In Lol. But I Gotta Ride That Car Is Pretty Quick. Im Happy That Specs Are Able To Beat The Gti's Tho. And Gtis Cost So Much More Too.

I have raced three different GTI's and i beat all 3 of them. But like Zankoku said it all comes down to the driver.

SE-REN wrote:

thats true it depends on the driver, but the driver of the spec does have to manage the power, but the dsg tranny just doesnt stop accelerating

That's not such a bid deal.  Our manual trannies lend to a more efficient drive train that uses up less HP than the CVT.  With that, we have more power available at the wheels.  That extra power will allow us to make a few minor mistakes.  It's not so crucial that we have to manage our power.  It would be nice to have a short throw available to help our shifting though.  I must admit, I have slammed the shifter right up between the gears once or twice.  Mis-shifting is not fun and quite embarrassing. 

Is there a break in period or something with the Injen CAI? Does the ECU have to adjust or something? Because I am noticing something of a decrease in performance after installing it. I'm going to go take a good look at it today to make sure nothing looks out of the ordinary but my car seems to be less responsive and accelerates slower.  It may have something to do with me changing the wheels and tires as well.

If you go to a smaller radius on your tire it should actually increase acceleration though right?

I went from 225/45 17 to 235/40 17

as soon as i got my intake installed i felt a dramatic INCREASE in performance. At 4000 Rpm The intake gets its full tone and pulls you. And ya the GTI gets 207ft of tq at 1700 rpm. Thats kind of a problem of the line. They also have this launch control thing, on there gti idk what that does tho. But i heard you fly off the line with it.

it's not just the radius of the tires, you can put larger wheels with a lower profile tire and same weight but performance can take a hit still depending on where that weight is distributed.  if the new wheels have more weight to the outside circumference it will cause a bog for rotational force.  generally lighter is safer overall but again if the bulk of the weight is farther towards the edges of the wheel it's possible, not likely, that because more weight was there than before you can see a decrease.  like i said it depends on wheel design and such.  I noticed immediately a difference in power after the install of my intake.  check that all your vacuum lines were installed back in order as well. and that you don't somehow have something blocking airflow around the filter (like a rag, this happened to me lol) or even inside the piping.

Those are nice wheels. Good to hear your ecu is getting used to the intake.

i feel like it pulls much harder now than that custom sri i made 4 it. but it took me an 1 1/2  hours to install on floor no jack or anything just hand tools. but i also did notice it idles funny as in it goeas from 700rpm to like 900rpm any idead y. but noon the less worth every penny. oh and before i forget the next day after the install i beat an altima ser on the highway

Hitman86 wrote:

07specme wrote:

i feel like it pulls much harder now than that custom sri i made 4 it. but it took me an 1 1/2  hours to install on floor no jack or anything just hand tools. but i also did notice it idles funny as in it goeas from 700rpm to like 900rpm any idead y. but noon the less worth every penny. oh and before i forget the next day after the install i beat an altima ser on the highway

I would venture a guess and say that is you cpu getting used to the new air ratios.

I have to say that yes this was worth every penny. I hit the gas and it sounds like a turbo spooling up when it's in the high rpm. Then i was driving home from work yesterday and was in 3rd gear to get around this car and when my RPM hit 5500 it felt like I hit boost the car just shot off like a mother...Now this might be in part that I have a small amount of 100 octane gas in the car. Oh and I did my first autox even on sat and I have to say that the intake did help.

how do you get 100 octane gas ? They actually offer it at the gas station ? Does it do any harm to your engine ?

Stitch wrote:

100 octane gas doesn't affect performance regardless.

The intake doesn't make much more than 6whp IMHO, so it will not feel like boost, it does sound sure nice and provide small gains in the midrange and the top end of the spectrum.

Wow way to be a party pooper...and 100 octane does affect performance for the better. And I know what I felt on the ol'butt dyno. The car lunged forward after it hit 5500 rpm, so why don't you please keep you negative comments to yourself.

To answer the quetions it does help the performance a bit and it was available at the local Luvs accross from Firebird International Raceway. They had 100 octane and 110 octane for $7.25/gallon, in general the car felt smoother and more consistant. This gas may not improve you HP or Torque, but it made the car fundtion better in my opinion. I only added like 2.5 gallon, so it's not like I filled all 14.5 gallons with 100 octane gas. I got a nice blend....

Last edited by Hitman86 (2008-08-12 17:54:32)

Zankoku wrote:

From what I heard, if the ecu isn't programmed to deal with higher octane, there probably won't be any performace benefits.

The same could be true about adding a CAI if the computer was not reprogrammed to handle the new air to fuel ratios then there would be no performance gains. Since we know that isn't true I bet the computer made or could make a few changes to some benefit out of it...