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(Not worried about sound) I have looked but all ive really found is the blitz sus and i dont really wanna fork out £200 on just an air filter Ive heard there fairy restrictive but is this true? Should i even bother changing? Buy cheap, buy twice.£40.Ethan21 wrote:Can anyone recomend me an intake and where to buy from?
Atm the moment i have the standard airbox on a rev 3 turbo.
I've got a HKS Mushroom on mine and only, and I'd like it noted ONLY because it came with it and my cash is better spent elsewhere. Once I've got free money once again, I'll change it to something that filters the air better than your average badger. Not really sure if it makes any difference to performance or not though. Had an Apexi intake before and loved the sound of it but I prefer the look of the engine bay with the stock air intake system in place
- saw yours for sale yesterday and was tempted! Already got Apexi power though, can't keep spending 
Lot better 
On a turbo car it's not so much about noise (vacuum cleaner sucking sounds) but may well help with spooling up the turbo (end hence torque curve) even if it doesn't have much effect on the top-end power. I certainly noticed that restricting my air filter helped reduce my boost creep issues before I sorted it once and for all by adding an external wastegate, so it's clear there is some form of gain to be had there. (Just because you can get 300bhp with the stock air box doesn't mean it's not causing some form of restriction that you'd be better off without) A £200 kit may well give you nothing other than ease of installation over something you knock together yourself for £60. But regardless of which engine you have, my personal opinion based upon various group tests is to stay away from foam filters on a road car.Mr.Two wrote:I was gonna say synXero
.. You could y'know... All boxed up and ready to go 
Why so bad? Oiled air filters do, too. Supposedly they're only of any value if you do high mileage - true?[if you have one]Loque wrote:
I love my Apex'i like a fat kid loves cake.
.... I love my K&N 57i kit which gives an awesome sound, but even better if you keep the air box restrictor - sounds more rorty but probably didn't do me any favours with restrictions. I've found torque is a little less with 57i but maybe I'm dreaming that..... I don't drive it much these days.synXero wrote:Foam air filters get a lot of negative press.
- fine for race cars, go karts and lawnmowers, but for a road car where you care about your engine wear and don't want to rebuild engines all the time you want better filtration than that.? Cost me £57 with shipping. Only just been shipped today. Still at least it will be genuine!.....Literally no difference at all! It was black with crap. Replaced, but keep debating sourcing a stock air box to replace. Presumably the improved filtration would mean a marginal drop in bhp?(Testing my patience)(Competent but dull) 
dylan5084 wrote:Interesting reading that test on induction kits, where do I get a 3A racing filter?
There are two things I'd take from that test: However having read that article, I'd rather have a cheap paper or cotton filter and swap it as a service item than to spend 5 times the money on a brand name filter that probably has not additional performance benefit.
Also it looks great and hopefully flows easily according to reviews.