Cold Air Intake for 2013 BRZ

[scottryan]

Originally Posted by Delgado

Hey man, I have the same exhaust set up on my FRS and I'm working with an Injen intake. Maybe give it a look, I've always been super happy with the combination of the two.

Sweet man! I've done a little research and I might stick with a K&N just because of a discount I can get, but from what I hard the Injen one gets nothing but amazing reviews. Did you notice a good difference in the sound when accelerating?

[scottryan]

Originally Posted by FRS_2K13

I have the Perrin CAI. It frees up alot of wasted space and goes into the front bumper to suck in fresh cold air.

I considered that one as well, watched a whole set-up video and it seemed easy enough but I think I'll keep it simple with a K&N one as I don't really need the free space since I'm a student and shouldn't be dumping a ton of money into the car's engine bay LOL.

Thank you for the response tho, I'll keep Perrin in mind.

[Teseo]

Originally Posted by Leonardo

You will need to tune your car to get any real advantage from installing an intake.


Part of the reason I just went with a drop in K&N filter and a silicone inlet tube.

Womder how many hp give that k&n sticker

[Leonardo]

Originally Posted by Teseo

Womder how many hp give that k&n sticker

It's their smaller sticker, so 2HP. I think the larger one gives you 5HP!

[wparsons]

Originally Posted by scottryan

I considered that one as well, watched a whole set-up video and it seemed easy enough but I think I'll keep it simple with a K&N one as I don't really need the free space since I'm a student and shouldn't be dumping a ton of money into the car's engine bay LOL.

Thank you for the response tho, I'll keep Perrin in mind.

The Perrin intake requires removing the bumper to clean the filter, and you should still tune the car after installing it.


IMO, stick with the drop in filter and stock box. If you want to clean up the engine bay a bit get a silicone intake pipe, but it's really not needed.


Lots of people throw money at stuff and love it because their butt dyno isn't accurate at all. Read the articles/threads on actual dyno testing. Nothing worse than spending a few hundred on an intake that actually loses power.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by wparsons

The Perrin intake requires removing the bumper to clean the filter, and you should still tune the car after installing it.


IMO, stick with the drop in filter and stock box. If you want to clean up the engine bay a bit get a silicone intake pipe, but it's really not needed.


Lots of people throw money at stuff and love it because their butt dyno isn't accurate at all. Read the articles/threads on actual dyno testing. Nothing worse than spending a few hundred on an intake that actually loses power.

The reason that intakes seem too be a first go to for people is that in many, many car it is indeed something that will make a large and immediate impact. So many cars that are not designed for performance from the get go have undersized intakes that draw all their air from the nice hot engine bay. In those cases it makes perfect sense that the first thing you do is to open up that airway and get the cooler air from outside the bay instead. The Twins design does all that right from the factory. Yes the original filter is designed more for economy than performance but even they have more flow than many cars do at the stock set up.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by wparsons

The Perrin intake requires removing the bumper to clean the filter, and you should still tune the car after installing it.

I hate mine for this reason. Doesn't help that I live in farm country in the heart of the grass seed capital of the world. That and without a tune it throws the maf scaleing way off.

[tyler_win_photo]

Originally Posted by FRS_2K13

I have the Perrin CAI. It frees up alot of wasted space and goes into the front bumper to suck in fresh cold air.

The stock airbox also routes into the front bumper, with relatively the same intake location as the Perrin cai.

[FRS_2K13]

Originally Posted by tyler_win_photo

The stock airbox also routes into the front bumper, with relatively the same intake location as the Perrin cai.

still removing it saves me some weight and freed up some power on the lowend torque. plus it looks a lot better im tired of all the plastic

[FRS_2K13]

Originally Posted by wparsons

The Perrin intake requires removing the bumper to clean the filter, and you should still tune the car after installing it.


IMO, stick with the drop in filter and stock box. If you want to clean up the engine bay a bit get a silicone intake pipe, but it's really not needed.


Lots of people throw money at stuff and love it because their butt dyno isn't accurate at all. Read the articles/threads on actual dyno testing. Nothing worse than spending a few hundred on an intake that actually loses power.

i plan on getting a tune after the headers are changed and the rest of the pipe ive already got the catback on.

[tyler_win_photo]

Originally Posted by FRS_2K13

still removing it saves me some weight and freed up some power on the lowend torque. plus it looks a lot better im tired of all the plastic

Without a tune you're not going to realize any power. If anything, your afrs are going to be off. That's why when tuning an aftermarket cai you need to rescale the maf.

But yeah, it does save some weight and look cool.

[Delgado]

Originally Posted by scottryan

Sweet man! I've done a little research and I might stick with a K&N just because of a discount I can get, but from what I hard the Injen one gets nothing but amazing reviews. Did you notice a good difference in the sound when accelerating?

I don't blame you for sticking to your guns. If it aint broken, don't fix it. Thats how I look at my set up too. Everything that requires maintenance will be upgraded, but it doesn't make sense to replace what doesnt need replacing.

To answer your question I feel like my car sounds different from every other twin I've come across but im not sure if that has to do with the fact that the combination of the magnaflow exhaust and injen intake are both not as common as other aftermarket brands in regards to our cars. It's more noticeable during start up, mid-top range of the RPM's