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Originally Posted by bigrobwoot
I would never finance mods. I'm just gonna buy an STi when I graduate. I've had the intake on since 2006, and if I change back, I'm gonna have to go to my parents' house and dig my stock intake out of the shed and clean it off.
Not that I don't believe you, but the one thing I can't get past is this: if it is so detrimental, why have I never hear of anyone having an engine fail due to their intake? And I've also heard that an intake is suggested with delta reground cams, because try actually do warrant the additional airflow capacity. I'm really not trying to argue with you about this, I'm just trying to learn
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I've heard of people running lean and hurting turbo cars due to an intake. But I don't follow the N/A side much so I don't know if it's caused as much of an issue. Like it hasn't, simply because N/A cars are harder to blow up.
But that said, just because it may not blow up the car... if it doesn't actually do anything positive, and causes issues like idle problems. Why in the world would you want it on the car to begin with? Certainly if you get cams and suddenly the VE of the motor is increased, you'll want an intake to be able to make use of the extra power available (assuming the stock intake would be a bottleneck). But again, doing that without tuning for it is a waste... not only a waste of money on the intake, but a waste of money on the cams too.
Ideally, anything you do to the car should be tuned for. We live in an era of easily modifiable computer controlled engines. Hell, even in the "dark ages" of carburetors, people re-jetted and retuned for power mods.