Originally Posted by
4drturbo
Old thread, but relevant rather than opening up another thread.
I was expecting to be able to hear the supercharger whine quite a bit during WOT. I barely hear it with this new NeedsWings DCAI intake I installed. But I see someone asked that earlier in this thread and that's normal. No biggy. I am just "Okay" with mine. I mean, $800 was quite a bit to chew on for what is actually included. But then again there really isn't any other DCAI out there on the market. So I can understand the high price. I took quite a few pictures of the install and some other things. Will upload those this weekend.
Major gripes I had was the mini clamps for the new PS lines. They were too small. Had to get some HD stainless wide worm clamps at the hardware store to stop the leak since I re-used the factory ones along with the $28 PS fluid. One of my filters was damaged in shipping a tad. Probably due to such a small box that is used. The elbow before the air filter is painted black. I believe it literally only has 1 coat of paint. I barely rubbed my hand against it when moving it around and I noticed a bare spot from it. My finger nail barely nicked it and off came the paint. Went to another spot and noticed I could literally scrape the paint off with my pinky finger nail lol. Horrible job for a $800 intake. The drivers side area where the 2 -3/4'' rubber gates pipe goes was funny. Barely fit through. Hopefully it doesn't damage the cable/wires and radiator line that it is pressed up against. The rubber Y pipe has a super tight clearance too up against that plastic firewall wire holder thing. Also pushed up against the plastic brake booster line. Factory piece doesn't even have a hose clamp on the throttle body. Plastic tabs were used instead, probably due to clearance. Boy that was hard to find the right angle to get that hose clamp on that small 1/2'' area on the TB.
All in all I am just okay with my $800 intake. Just my opinion you guys. It does look pretty darn cool. Don't really notice anything in the power department. I should definitely be able to feel the claimed 20-30whp on my bone stock SRT-6. But don't.
It's a great start to getting the hidden power unleashed, but you'll be a lot happier w/ your intake when you add a pulley and bump up your SC r.p.m., and get it tuned to bring it all together.
Originally Posted by
oledoc2u
You have to drive the car and make high speed runs for the car to adapt. If you haven't tuned the car, you aren't going to see much either. Remember, everything you change requires the tune to be tweaked. You should hear the supercharger. My runs at the track only improved a few tenths over my single nw cai. But, a few tenths wins races. Good luck...
Couldn't agree more with all that. I was skeptical at first about the "adaptation" claim, but after my first autocross day(and heading home)I was blown away when accelerating up the freeway on ramp. Holy heck, it's for real. As to the SC whine, believe me, the folks outside can hear it! I didn't think I had much of a whine either, but when I let a fellow AutoX'r take a lap in my 6, I was amazed that that's what everyone else was hearing from me! Back then, they were all probably wondering why I didn't have faster times than I was posting, lol.