I have been looking into changing the air intake on my VRS. It is stage 1 with a Shark Remap and K&N panel filter and I am not going too stage 2 anytime soon. I have been looking at the forge air filter and it only showed a gain of 3bhp and few extra torque for a stage 1 car. I know that the Ed30 has the same OE engine cover intake as mine and that works well when remapped over 300bhp. I am really stuck at the moment as to whether a stage 1 car would see any benefit from any after market intake. I can get a carbonio air scoop very cheap i.e well over half price and was thinking of just sticking that on? As that would see a bit more air being sucked into the engine over the OE setup plus it looks nice under the hood! I am wondering if anyone else has been in the same postion and what works well and what doesnt? Or if im better leaving alone and running with the stock OE intake on stage 1?

Any help and advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Matt

I have been looking into changing the air intake on my VRS. It is stage 1 with a Shark Remap and K&N panel filter and I am not going too stage 2 anytime soon. I have been looking at the forge air filter and it only showed a gain of 3bhp and few extra torque for a stage 1 car. I know that the Ed30 has the same OE engine cover intake as mine and that works well when remapped over 300bhp. I am really stuck at the moment as to whether a stage 1 car would see any benefit from any after market intake. I can get a carbonio air scoop very cheap i.e well over half price and was thinking of just sticking that on? As that would see a bit more air being sucked into the engine over the OE setup plus it looks nice under the hood! I am wondering if anyone else has been in the same postion and what works well and what doesnt? Or if im better leaving alone and running with the stock OE intake on stage 1?

Any help and advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Matt

the gain on the ed 30 is due to the extra pulling/sucking power of the k04 engine. the k03 does benefit from the intake as it gets breathless at high revs.

A stock car will see benefit but it would be minimal. a stage 1 would benefit more, and a stage 2 car more again etc etc.

I had put the carbonio scoop on mine when i fist bought the vRS, and it made the grand total of no difference on the road or dyno. i then put on a code red intake and noticed an good improvment above 4500rpm.(whilst bluefin stage 1, all the way to bluefin stage 2+) I then put on the ITG and made a pretty substantial 9hp over the code red intake and it was very noticable on the road.

id say @ stage 1 not to bother with an intake TBH. instead id save the mony for a performance downpipe and get a stage 2 map on th car, and then look into an intake. Thats how i would do it if i were to do it again(which i will)

Thanks for that! I will leave the car alone..........for the time being

the gain on the ed 30 is due to the extra pulling/sucking power of the k04 engine. the k03 does benefit from the intake as it gets breathless at high revs.

A stock car will see benefit but it would be minimal. a stage 1 would benefit more, and a stage 2 car more again etc etc.

I had put the carbonio scoop on mine when i fist bought the vRS, and it made the grand total of no difference on the road or dyno. i then put on a code red intake and noticed an good improvment above 4500rpm.(whilst bluefin stage 1, all the way to bluefin stage 2+) I then put on the ITG and made a pretty substantial 9hp over the code red intake and it was very noticable on the road.

id say @ stage 1 not to bother with an intake TBH. instead id save the mony for a performance downpipe and get a stage 2 map on th car, and then look into an intake. Thats how i would do it if i were to do it again(which i will)

Yup, what he said. Did all of those (and bought the ITG off him ) and I would stick with a decent panel filter with the engine cover (or even just a regularly changed paper OEM one!) while on Stage 1