Nice! I wanna see these results!

 

Looking forward too seeing your results.

 

I think you guys are more excited than I am. LOL I've seen a few JOEZ intake tests already done on the IS-F and they all showed a promising 5+ hp gains. I'm just going to get my own confirmation and to escape work for a few hours tomorrow.

 

Yeah I guess were all thrilled for the extra 5 hp your gonna gain....

 

I finally got my intake! Just installed it a few hours ago. To be honest, I'm not sure I can tell much difference beyond a little more growl when the RPMs swing past the 3600 mark. However, the intake looks very nice and the fit was spot on.

Do those of you that already have the intake swap the OEM back in before you take your car in for service?

 

^^I leave mine in personally (but then again, the tech and service guy are buddies of mine). I wouldn't worry to much about it. Is yours black or blue?

 

Taken with my Blackberry so not the best...

Just installed it today =)

 

Hi Veeral

Your Oil Cap looks a lot like mine It really looks great

Lou

 

That's not too hard with some work in CATIA or AutoCad; but working with Sulfuric acid to annodize I will gladly take a raincheck.

That Raw stock will set you back about $28 or so. Then you need to Mandrel bend it. If you crush it you'll lose flow. And then you'll need to drill and do 2 MIG welds (Tig is not needed as its not as critical point). Or if you're really skilled do 2 counter sunk holes. Then Hone the edge and do a locking washer on the top (same way hard lines are used on an aircraft.) But even then without the proper tooling one is well over into the 100 zone.


Even with a rough break down:
28 =Raw stock
+25 (bend piping)
+20 (for upper 6061 piping)
+30 (for 2 mini welds) (if one is to weld)
+40 (at least) for Anodizing (if you send it out)

And time is money....Kudos for the true Macgyver's...
The money spent on buying the premade is worth it

 

+1

I did enough DIY hacking over the years on my 4G63 Eclipse. Not gonna do it on this car.

 

Mine is black. I doubt they would notice unless they try to change the air filter.

I service my car at Sewell in Fort Worth. I'm hoping since Sewell seems more mod friendly it won't be an issue.

 

Peak power hasn't really changed, but I'm short for words about two sections of the power band. 3200 to 4100rpm and 5100 to 6100rpm the stock intake has considerable more power which I can't explain. (intake resonance? timing?) The JoeZ pipe made more top end power from 6100rpm to redline.

For those of you with photobucket blocked you can also view a smaller graph here.

 

Very interesting graph, hard to explain though. I think you're the first one doing a dyno comparisson for the intake alone, right? Other dynos showed the combination intake-exhaust.

 

so basically the intake is for sound not even a 5hp gain?

 

Hey James.. Great Dyno runs..

It might be a good idea to re-verify the base numbers..

I can't see the graph to well either way..


^^ Not necessarily..
Gains are indeed approx 5rwhp.. Results can very from car to car or dyno to dyno..

So far to date, 3 other IS-F's were independently tested & achieved the approx. 5rwhp gain.

Thank you
Joe Z