Review: Supertek Industries intake tube
 

Placed an order on a new intake tube after my Perrin intake tube was getting cut up by the drive belt. I was looking into a clean design and @Supertek Industries had what I was looking for; wrinkle black with black couplings.
Straight out the box
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Installation: It was a pretty easy install. I had a Perrin tube before so I had already taken off the sound tube. Took about 5 minutes to install. The package came with everything you need for installation.
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Clearance from tube to drive belt
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Old Perrin intake tube; notice the cut.
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Driving impressions: Sounds great at WOT. Still has the same response as the Perrin intake tube gave me. The only small difference if any was maybe a better take off response. It feels slightly better than a rubber tube and construction is a A+

Shipping and service: quick and easy, very helpful and provided tracking number right away. Product arrived before given date which was pretty great after having a hard day at work, really got me happy to receiving this.

Would you say this produces more intake noise than the silicon piece you had before?

If it used rubber couplers and factory clamps, that would be as close to oem looking as possible.

Thanks for the review, we are glad you are satisfied. All other preorders are shipping shortly and look forward to more feedback!

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Is the Perrin Intake Tube hitting the drive belt a big issue? I havent seen anyone report of that happening until your made this review. Could you of gotten a bad part perhaps?

I believe Evasive sells an intake tube too that is carbon fiber which is extremely nice. It is just a little more than the Perrin Intake Tube. I believe its like just around 200 bucks. 50 more dollars for a carbon fiber intake tube that has a similar design to Perrins with a smooth bend unlike the avo/zetas where it is just a 90 degree angle where the tube bends.

Figure I may as well add mine here instead of another thread.

Hi,

Great pictures, looks like a nice setup!

In regards to the plug yes it is for the sound tube delete.

For the inside of the pipe, this is a cast aluminum unit so the texture inside will be similar to that of a OEM intake manifold or cylinder head.


As far as the metal sticking do not worry, we are having the production line go over EACH ONE today to ENSURE there will not be future issues and correcting.

Thanks for sharing!

Overall how do you like the sound and performance of the product?

Probably just new mod placebo, but it feels like it pulls a bit better.
It definitely added a nice sound to the Perrin CAI. Also looks great with it as well.

yeah, I received mine too.

Decided to have a once over thanks to this thread.
It looks like they didn't take special care in not doing the inside so there is quite a lot of loose powder everywhere.
If I touch it, it flakes off.
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Now that I've gone through and gotten rid of the all the loose powder, not entirely sure I want to put it on since I have no idea how well the powder is attached to the inside. Definitely don't want any of it to come off when the pipe heats up due to different rates of expansion between aluminium and the powder.

Looks like I'll need to take it to get it sand blasted to put my mind at ease..

I like this! Which one would you guys say it gets colder air in the intake? i tend to believe that the silicone one, however the powder coating might make the whole difference to an aluminum tube.

As stated in the other thread in the vendors forum, mine is the same and I'm not comfortable putting it on the car until I have it sorted. Powder will flake off if I touch it, so this is effectively useless until I get it media blasted and/or have all the loose powder removed via other means.

Since you guys are implementing a new production process to fix the issue, will us early adopters be able to get a replacement for tubes which are having such issues?

We will honor an exchange for anyone that particpated in the original buy on the product and is not satisfied. We did quite a bit of testing over the past few days and found that although the current finish on the interior of the pipe does not pose any danger to the engine nor to performance we are working to correct it for the near future.. This may take a few weeks so please be patient with us.

Thanks everyone for your support and be assured we are working quickly to correct it!

Thanks for the update and reassurance that we will be looked after - appreciate that any new product has teething problems.

Please keep us posted on this :)

Prob didn't check clearance. With those things, it's always good to recheck after so many miles driven.

I wonder if a wire brush on a power drill would be enough to clean up the insides?

Probably. I just used a file set on mine.

I just wanted to update this thread.

We have begun the processing of removing any excess material or buildup in our intake pipe. If you received a pipe you ere not happy with with please email us at sales@supetekindustries.com with your order # and information. We will honor an exchange.

PLEASE NOTE: Going forward there should be ZERO concerns as all new orders will ship with inlet pipes that have no issues.

We thank you all for your feedback and support and look forward to more install pics!!!!

OP, did you cut the coupling on the Airbox side? Looks shorter than the one on the TB. I installed mine earlier and was considering cutting it shorter. Both were the same length and the one on the Airbox side sits a little awkward at the bend.

Thanks for your reply.

The revised version we are shipping now includes one coupler that is slightly resized for visual purposes. We have gotten a few requests and have updated it. If you dont feel like trimming yours shoot me an email and I will send you a revised one. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Yeah - comboed with the perrin that looks bad ass

All members,

Happy to announce all inlet pipe kits are now shipping with corrected pipe and resized couplers.

Thank you all for your support and feedback. Our kit has been a massive success as a result of your support and we thank you all. Such a great community!

Best part? group buy now at ft86speedfactory, an unbeatable deal! Through feb

Having read the review this seemed like the ideal intake for what i was looking for right now. After doing some research on other intakes and i decided to buy it and take a shot at it and see if it is really all that great. Supertek was more than helpful with the many questions i had in regards to the intake and it's a really nice piece especially for the price. I doubt there is any gains from me installing their intake and filter but it definitely cleaned up the engine and the car is more responsive...

Thanks for the kind words. A note to all members, we are only shipping the revised version now! Thank you all for your patience and support of our products. The feedback we have gotten has been tremendous and we appreciate it greatly!

Interested. Discount through here vs. web page ordering?

Our website. ;-)

I'll be placing an order Friday.
Any chance the Q300 is going on sale in the near future? Cause I need one of those too ;-)

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Received the updated (shorter) coupling and new intake tube (with extra processing to ensure no more material build-up) a couple weeks ago, and finally got around to installing the intake tube on my car today!

The updated intake tube was pretty much perfect right out of the box, so hats off to Supertek for sorting out those teething problems and also honouring an exchange. The updated (shortened) airbox coupling was still a little too long for the pipe to sit comfortably in my opinion, so I cut it down further until it was 50mm long.

Installation was straight forward ; hardest part was removing the existing sound tube all the way to the firewall, especially that one stubborn clip attaches the hose to the chassis. Brute force solved the issue and I managed to get everything out intact with no damage.

Butt dyno suggests little change in power from stock setup, but I hadn't driven the car in 2-3 weeks so my calibration is out :P Setup sounds great - no unwanted booming resonances at cruising rpms, with a healthy amount of natural induction noise above 4000rpm.

All in all I'm stoked with the outcome - to me, it's the way it should have come from factory!

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Thank you for your patience and sharing your feedback (not to mention awesome engine bay shot), Looks great@ With that said, we are really lucky to be involved in a community that is so supportive and understanding.:party0030::party0030::party0030:

Quick picture of my SuperTek intake pipe w/filter.
Thanks for the great product and thanks to FT86SpeedFactory for the great price!

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Looks great! I recently installed this product but i have the same issue with the airbox coupling. I'm also thinking to cut it so it'll sit better. what did you use to cut yours?

I tried a few different methods. Youtube suggested using a hose clamp as a guide, but I found it difficult to get a clean perpendicular cut into the hose using either a box cutter (worse) or a double edged razor blade (better).

In the end, I used fresh box cutter blade placed on a flat-topped object of my desired height on my desk - this keeps the blade parallel to the desk at all times. I held the silicone hose against the object then used the blade to cut through it - this gave me a clear, nearly perfect perpendicular cut with a constant height.

For reference, the height I settled on was approx 50mm.

Ahh, I may just go this route. I was contemplating either using a hacksaw or Dremel to do the job, but a box cutter sounds like you have more control for a more precise cut. Thanks!!

Anyone else logged Intake air temp?

I found the supertek intake tube on ebay brand new for 90 shipped. Vendors have it also with the filter for 109 shipped. Super pleased

Well, I logged it and it heat soaks like crazy.

More so than the stock tube?

Yes. It'll rise up about the same temp but it won't shake the heat whereas the stock one will drop 20-30F lower in comparison.

Very dissapointing. Looks like mine will be hitting the for sale section soon

Our intake pipe and filter have proven performancegains over stock setup and other inlet pipes. We challenge anyone to do their own independent testing, and actually PROVIDE results. If our claims are not true we will gladly refund any customer. We have offered this already many times already, but still no one has come forward. We wonder why? :)

Its interesting that that we do not see these attacks against companies like HKS or Blitz that make similar products. Maybe we need to a 30 page forum thread that attempts to convince everyone.