Air intake?

[Pikey Motorsports]

Originally Posted by Smokey550ims

This is not a muscle car from 30 years ago. BMW put a lot of money into research and development, especially on M cars. Don't you think the stock intakes are better than any aftermarket setup? Heat rises, hot air under the hood (turbo cars) is what you are pulling into the intake.
Just remove the carbon filters, and you will see an improvement. Even muscle cars are using ducting to pull cool air from front of the car under the grill, or off the windshield.
Go figure... Performance is what counts.

Stock Intakes are good but not as good as front mounted filters

[Pikey Motorsports]

Originally Posted by m5teven

Referring to the Gamma intakes? Which brand filter did you switch to? The paper filters they provide are wrapped in spectre plastic. Found them here https://www.spectreperformance.com/s...aspx?prod=8161 for $20. They charge $50 each for the mesh and I'm sure they are also $15 or $20. I wouldnt mind switching to another paper filter like you mentioned.

These are the filters made by a company called green filters

[m5teven]

Originally Posted by Pikey Motorsports

These are the filters made by a company called green filters

That looks great man. Do you have any sound clips of these in action?

[Chiraq M5]

Originally Posted by m5teven

I went ahead and ordered a set of the gamma intakes. I had them send a pair of the mesh and paper filter. You can definitely tell why they don't recommend daily driving with the mesh filter. My M gets driven maybe once a week sometimes twice, but I am still nervous about running the mesh. Which one do you use? Have you heard the way the paper filter sounds compared to the mesh?

Hello

mine came with mesh filters, they kinda rusted a little but never bothered me

I got a set of paper filters as well but I haven't switched them yet.

I believe mesh sounds louder, but paper has better filtering.

[mister2d]

I didn't think the mesh filters filtered anything. So dangerous.

[m5teven]

Originally Posted by Chiraq M5

Hello

mine came with mesh filters, they kinda rusted a little but never bothered me

I got a set of paper filters as well but I haven't switched them yet.

I believe mesh sounds louder, but paper has better filtering.

Where abouts do you live and how long have you had them installed? Gamma has plenty of sound clips showing them off, but they don't seem to be the first choice for running all the time due to the lack of filtration.