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Originally Posted by Frishkorn
Just seemed like a waste between the extra tube with the sound generator. And as I'm pulling out all the stock components, noticing how restrictive the air diversion channel seemed compared to the new plate that I installed.
Now you guys make me want to take the intake out, dyno it, put the aftermarket back in and dyno it. Should a intake companies dyno results be thrown out the window? And if so, how are they able to advertise those numbers without being in trouble for fraud?
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No doubt there would be some improvement and I don't think anybody is saying the stock one is perfect. More just a matter of for a stock set up they are pretty good compared to many other vehicles set ups. The original question was what is the best "bang for the buck" and in that context the drop in filters probably are.
If you are really ambitious and want to try and find them, there are already dyno comparisons between stock and aftermarket intakes on here someplace. Been a while since I saw it but seem to recall almost none made the numbers that the manufactures claim. Now add a tune on top and ya they made it. It isn't all that hard to push any sort of measurements up to what you want if you know how to tweak the system just the right way. Maybe they did 20 tests at 2 but then got one at 10 and said "ahhh there we go the max is 10 we don't need to discuss the other 20".
How many products of any type live up to the manufacture's claims? If they all did what they say they will there would be no obesity because a couple of special shakes would keep the weight off, every car would get the top mileage listed all the time and the average size of a dong would be 12 inch's!
How do they avoid fraud? Simple as putting a small print disclaimer on the product literature that says "results may
vary". You will also frequently see statements such as "
up to XXX" which of course can be argued that if you even have any increase at all you have met what they claimed.
The whole thing is that if you are happy with what you have and it does the job for you then why bother trying to prove that everything else is no good? No matter what you have somebody someplace is going to think theirs is better no matter what numbers you throw at them.