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Originally Posted by JNoSol
Can't say about other car manufacturers, but BMW makes solid intake system. If your car has a stock tune, aftermarket intakes will not do anything but look and sound better. If you're running 25psi+ as stated by Burger Tuning's website below, you "may" see 10HP (at least they're honest). Which makes sense as higher boost would require more air than the BMW engineers spec'd it for. After market drop in filters can fix this alone.
Don't believe the gimic. After market intake power gains is the biggest scam for suckers, no one has proven massive power gains with just intakes (3rd party unbiased testing).
OEM air box with BMC filters would be the cheapest upgrade if you're just looking for another 5-10HP with a tune.
If you want cheap intake sound, get BMS intakes with Perrin or Weapon R filters. I like the effort of OP here, but cheap foam filters will damage your motor. They let contaminant through and the foam will break down over time, going into the intakes. There's nothing more damaging to your motor than burnt foam. If you ever burnt foam as a child, you know what I'm talking about. They turn black and sticky, very toxic.
http://burgertuning.com/s63tu_BMW_M5...ce_intake.html |
Interesting post, RAMAIR are well respected here in UK, and remains subject to opinion or home spun wisdom as to their quality over and about other filtration systems, and feel the that topic is pedantic too.
However one comment you mentioned above: you said there is no scope for power increase unless your running 25 PSI, well the M5 runs 21psi standard so assuming it won’t develop that extra 10 BHP only if you tune it to 25psi
There not a gimic, and im not a sucker, ive come from 15 years of tuning GTR's and we used high flow filters to simply allow better breathing, and feed greater volumes of air into the turbos - period. Turbo’s crave air, this just allows more of it to flow
On some race GTR's we only used turbo entry trumpets with no air filters at all and removed a headlight to literally ram air in, in these extreme instances turbo’s would only last up to 10k miles before needing a rebuild, and we have swallowed many wasps and small children with this method
thanks for your comments but ive deduced you’re not actually factual and just a nay sayer - forums are full of them !!
