you always lose low end torque when you change out the stock intake for a CAI. You didnt specify if the ebay intake was a CAI or SRI, but either way, its just piping... what youre basically paying for is the name brand and filter.
I have a P5 with a K&N typhoon CAI. I would say overall there were minimal gains, but there was definetly loss of a little torque on the low end. I had a thunder header installed recently, and the combo of the intake and header gives the car some extra kick.
i feel that SRI helps better acceleration. if i were u i mod the CAI.
AHH.... the age old question of what is better?? CAI or SRI. lets not bring that up again. Lets just keep it at, ITS ALL PERSONAL PREFERENCE.
I dont have any pictures of my header installed, simply because I had it done within a 2 week period over christmas break and I dont have my car with me while I am away at school.
The header cost me about $280 from protephile, who is an awesome vendor. I had it ceramic coated, "gray ice", which is a metallic gray cast iron sort of color [simply beautiful], for $160. The guy at the coating shop offered to help me install the header for free. Its simple enough to install on your own if you have the tools, otherwise, you could overpay any shop to do it for you for a small (killit)ass raping fee of anywhere between $50 - $80.
I would definetly recommend getting it coated because it is worth every penny. Overall your budget should be between $250 and $500 depending on what you want to do, and what brand of parts you want to go with.
well then that means it is worthless to change the intake on our cars? i thought CAI always gained power not lost....i was looking at low end to mid end power, and if i was to make it a SRI when the engine gets hot wouldn't the SRI be worthless then, doing nothing but making a bunch of noise then? I will be getting headers and exhaust later on as well. The ebay intake was a CAI but it was a injen copy that had a lot of bends in it and came down and went back up and the filter sat behind the headlight and was pretty high.
