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12-31-2019, 03:40 AM | #1 |
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eBay Intake Manifold
I was bored and endlessly scrolling through eBay and came across this. Anyone knows anything about this?
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12-31-2019, 07:25 AM | #2 |
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Looks like a copy of the RacerX intake manifold when it was in a prototype stage.
Probably loses power, sure seems like they have a lot of confidence in it if it's only on ebay and 1 or 2 other random sites. |
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I felt so strongly about the above comment, the computer decided to submit my post twice.
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Funny thing about the Chinese ripoff stuff is that it's usually pretty well made. Not well engineered, but well made....there's zero engineering going into them, other than from a manufacturing perspective. Functionally, it's a dice roll. But the welds and machine work all look nice on this. Someone will buy it and say they make 225 NA wheel horsepower with it...
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If you're looking for a different sound, that may be a reason to change. But it may perform worse, if that matters to you. I've seen a lot of pretty awesome looking "hot" air intakes. The quaility of Ebay can vary. I've seem some stuff better that big brand name and some stuff a lot worse. I agree there is very little, if any, R&D on the cheap Ebay items. But it may be an exact copy of something that had some R&D. That being said, I question how much R&D some of these aftermarket companies actually do. I think most of the time they make something that's just visually appealing. Something where they buyer says, "yeah, I can see that making my car haul ass." Just beacuse something "looks" like it would work good, doesn't mean it does. Look at a '88 Lamborghini Countach. Looks like it would slice through the air like a knife through warm butter. It's actually pretty crappy when it comes to coefficient of drag. Looks can be deceiving. |
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When people will realize ebay doesn't produce products/items on its own
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normal case of generalizing according common stereotypes. overbroad but gets thought across. Just like with "from China".
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Weapon-R IM? Interesting oddity.
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good thing it only happens with product listed on ebay.
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You can get the racerx for just a little more than that and you'll at least know what you have
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Additionally RacerX went through like 6 different trials (that they released to the public) and it was pretty challenging for them to get any real gains. The OEM I/M is pretty damn good. In other words, pretty hard for it to not lose power or muck up the power curve. Quote:
It's actually different people, in different production facilities, in different parts of the country who design things differently?! Whoaaaaa Quote:
Theirs was a hair over $800 I believe during the December sale |
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This might be the last piece of the puzzle for strapping a mp-62, non intercooled on e85 for my DD.
I think thats where racer x went wrong. They should have developed a an intake designed to take an oem supercharger to our engines. I would have paid $1000 bucks for it. |
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