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By Utilizing OEM grade composite materials, this system is less prone to heat-soak than comparable aluminum, or chrome steel pipes, resulting in cooler intake temperatures.

Includes:
4" High Flow Smooth Intake Pipe
Silicone Adapter Hoses
Lifetime 9" Cone Air Filter

This system will provide you with a 13-18 rear wheel horsepower increase by utilizing OEM grade composite materials that will be less prone to heat-soak than comparable aluminum, or chrome steel product. This allows for cooler intake temperatures and more horsepower to your rear wheels!

The price for this system is $179.99 and you can save $10. by placing your order online. We should have them ready to ship by the end of next week.

Tom

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Originally posted by tbyrne@Mar 10 2004, 06:22 PM
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By Utilizing OEM grade composite materials, this system is less prone to heat-soak than comparable aluminum, or chrome steel pipes, resulting in cooler intake temperatures.

Includes:
4" High Flow Smooth Intake Pipe
Silicone Adapter Hoses
Lifetime 9" Cone Air Filter

This system will provide you with a 13-18 rear wheel horsepower increase by utilizing OEM grade composite materials that will be less prone to heat-soak than comparable aluminum, or chrome steel product. This allows for cooler intake temperatures and more horsepower to your rear wheels!

The price for this system is $179.99 and you can save $10. by placing your order online. We should have them ready to ship by the end of next week.

Tom

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The pipe might not be bad, but isn't the filter going to get soaked with heat in that position? Usually the heat soak is hitting the air draw area, and a heat shield/box of some kind is necessary to force air draw from a fender or a bit lower in the engine bay.

Brian

I personally don't think it's that big of a deal. Here's why. When there's great underhood buildup (the kind that causes the airfilter to suck hot air), you aren't really moving. You're probably idling in traffic. You don't need max power. When you start moving, it sucks cooler and cooler air, as the engine bay gets flooded with fresh air...the faster you go, the cooler the charge.

Yea, while flying down the highway you are probably getting cool air in there, but after sitting at a red light for 2 minutes, or staging up for the 1/4 mile, I'm not sure that it wouldn't take a few precious seconds before you're back up to full power.

Brian

One of the other benefits that you see from this style of intake is that the sound dampening construction that is built into the stock unit is not present. That sound dampening setup is also a restrictor of air-flow and also disrupts it. I can't comment on the possible gains that you would see, but I can say through past experience with other vehicles with similar setups that a difference does exist.

Cheers!!!

~MattS

That's right. So what I've seen of dyno results of these systems before is that you are trading low-end grunt for top-end pull. At lower RPMs your engine can easily swallow the amount of air it needs through a stock box.

I believe in these systems, I just think they should be honest and say they boost PEAK horsepower, but may not help or even hurt low-end power.

Fortunately the LS1 is torquey, not like a I4 Honda, so you're still traction limited not power limited I'd bet. The more I think about it, these intakes make more sense on an LS1 than the import crowd you typically find (cheap) ones on.
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Brian

There will be enough cool air in that corner to keep the engine fed. It does get pushed into the engine compartment when the car is at speed.

Tom

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We will have this systen ready to ship in the next few days.