Well after about a year of the shop owning our BRZ, we are starting to move into the engine development work. I know there are plenty air intakes on the market, and all of them have there own unique design. Here is our version of the air intake, and currently the design that we think will work very well. We are keeping the stock snorkel, and bolting on an airbox infront of it. The airbox will allow you to keep any aftermarket drop in filter you may have in place. Currently we plan to dyno our shop car with the OEM filter, and the K&N filter.
Our shop car currently has NO engine modifications.
The design of our intake does a few things, it reduces the sharp 90 degree entry into the OEM intake elbow. This will reduce some flow loss, and allow for a smoother entry into the throttle body. In addition all of the tubing is formed on dies that we build in house. The tube coming out of the air box is sized to the exact diameter of the OEM MAF housing. It also places a large tapered bellmouth velocity stack in front of it. Next is our ram air tube, this tube is designed to increase air speed, and bring it back to a stablized air flow before entering the throttle body. The ram air tube again is designed for the OEM throttle body, and is formed from a die that we built specifically for the FR-S/BRZ.
We will have dynos posted in the next few weeks, and of course I will post any updates we have on the project as it moves forward. For now here are a few pics.
As always we are open to suggestions and comments.
