Chrome Intakes

[Rich1985GST1997]

Hey guys, Ive looked all over the site, and their never has been a post on these chrome airintakes from ebay........ Their so cheap it must be to good to be true, anyone running one...... Any probs, or advice as to a good air intake
thanks Rich

for that price it must be to good to be true

 

[brassc2007]

I have never had any problems with apc, it was in my price range. A filter is the only thing i would buy from them.

 

[Shmagmar]

Ok, here is MY personal experience with specifically CHROME INTAKES. shipped in a few days, when i opened the box everything was well packeged in bubble wrap and such. i unwrapped the pipe and to my not so supprise the chrome was hideous. . . speckcled like. (should have taken pics before i painted it). the couplers and hoses were (for lack of better words) a very ### blue color. the MAF adapter was very light plastic, but it fit well. the 3'' cone filter seems to be trustworthy.
the coupler to the turbo inlet was a little big but it fit, the clamps supplied were of good quality. the larger coupler (MAF to intake pipe) did not fit, in fact it wasn't even close. i ended up using black electric tape as sort of a gasket and cut the end off the stock intake hose to make my own seal. (not real pretty but it works, ha) overall i would say that it is not a really bad deal for $48 shipped.

 

[pboglio]

Intake pipes definitely can provide some gains. I was having the hardest time cracking more than 42.5 lb/min out of my setup. Figured I'd switch out to my bigger "Injen" 3" intake pipe instead of my smaller 2.25" RRE intake elbow, along with a bigger diameter lower j-pipe. Immediately I picked up the airflow to 44.0 lb/min. Every little bit helps.

 

[the_mork]

That could be true, an easy way to fix that though would be to remove the maf honey comp which was pretty simple when i did it, would make it so that there was no obstruction

I hope that you didn't just do this on a turbo car. I have no idea how sensitive 420a MAFs are but doing this on a turbo car will throw the MAF so far outside its registered values that the car wont be able to bring the fuel maps back in line with the ~ +/- 12% correction available through fuel trims. The only way that you can just start hacking your MAF is if you monitor o2 voltages and you are already using something to tune your car which I would suggest most of the people in this thread are not at this point. This is by no means a simple free horsepower adder.

 

[dsm_Prince]

ebay intakes are actually good and cheap.

 

[knochgoon24]

And now, an ACTUAL parts review. The proper way. With pictures.
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/art...24-crome-intakes-2g-intake-w-filter-ebay.html

 

[zhjiln]

ebay hard intakes are actually really good for the price...$30-50 bucks....

no issues here....and it lets you hear your turbo spool ...

i dont use the ebay filter it came with..just the hard pipe...

K&N FIPK w/ ebay hard pipe.. =)