http://www.re-amemiya.co.jp/new_part...ntake_box.html
hope it's not a repost since I couldn't find anything with a search.

 

geez that carbon fiber......thats gonna cost alot...well i like how it looks expect i wouldnt put the lid on i would put plexi glass over it..i dont know if this was a repost or not

 

it's been discussed, but I don't know what thread off the top of my head. I do know that corksport.com has had this item for quite awhile now and it runs something around $1000


edit. sorry, it looks like this is a first time post. The intake I saw on Corksport.com for $1085 is the AutoExe ram air intake, not this RE intake.

 

Geez, $1000 for that? Thanks for the post this is the first time I seen this. What were the hp improvements if any? Looks good.

 

7ps is the claim
if you look carefuly you can see a new duct for the other side of the airbox.

 

The filter pipe looks to be about the same length as stock which is a good thing. The inlet air doesn't look to be obstructed by the filter. It appears that there is a nice machined inlet radius inside the filter. With a top on it, it is fully sealed off from the engine bay and gets air from outside. You can also see the inlet tube going down to the front of the car. It looks like a good design to me. 7 hp isn't an outrageous claim. If it weren't for the price, it would probably be worth considering. Otherwise they did it right. The other option is to just wait for Racing Beat's to come out which is very similar in design but will be about a third the price. This piece may look like it's all carbon fiber but that is just the top decorative layer so it does have a little on it. The rest is actually just fiberglass. This would be an easy box to build.

 

72,000 yen = $686 (rounded up).

nice looking intake, not sure if I'd pay that much. maybe if they took of the CF stickers...

 

the intake out front is about the same length so this is ok for low rpm. what about high rpm since it has elliminated the VFAD or what ever they call it?

 

There's more to it than just the length of that tube. It's diameter has a large effect too. The factory duct isn't as large in diameter which mean it actually doesn't have to be as long to tune to a lower rpm. This tube should provide some gain in power at high speeds assuming that it is facing into the airstream.

 

There is no discussion of where the RAM is getting air from. THere is a 60000 Yen plastic version.

The ram does opens out as a shape of a suction cup. Like an extension of the original tube... as RG commented 7ps is possible if you increase the location of front tube(s).

RG, I think rotorenvy is asking: Since we have 2 tubes with the short one having a variable valve. Changing how does changing the whole thing affect the whole situation?

Wildcard in Oz land have installed a $30 plastic tube and use sCANalyser and get intake temp just 2 degree above ambient shown on the dash. I, on the other hand, consistently getting over 7 degree above ambient (even on highway). I think it is a very nice mod. But 70000

How about this?
http://www.odula.com/page/rx8_air.htm
It is half the 1/3 of the price although there is no change of filter .... :o

Still my questions are:

Will water goes into the box?
Will that affect tuning since the variable valve (in the short stock tube) is gone?

 

I think the water will not go into the box because it owns a sharop angle. Water may be trapped into the first part of the tube. I have pictures in this thread:
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-aftermarket-performance-modifications-23/odula-ram-air-intake-installed-56066/

I didn't find any valve in the tube I removed. It's just another plastic tube, no valve inside there. You just changed a horizontal "L" shape tube into a vertical "L" shape tube. The main changes are the shape of orifice and the position of air intake.

 

Zaku, you said removing the side tube and put this in.... did you see the front short tube at the same time???

I have to take the bumper off and have a good look.

Where did you order it from? Can I acquire your help to get one?

 

I am talking about this tube Zaku.

If this one stays and only the side one goes... then I will think what is the short one doing there in the first place?

 

If that one stays and the side tube becomes the odula tube

Then I want it very very bad :d

 

I got it via my friend's help. He had a business trip to the Osaka last month. Not sure when he will go to Japan again.
The picture you attached can't be shown properly on my computer. I attach my photo. I removed this one to installl Odula tube.

 

That's the low power engine intake.

 

RG zaku has a 4 port renesis. Does that mean he only has a low power engine intake and no front ones with a valve?

What do you think of having a single tube with no valve? Dangerous? Benefit?

We know that it is benefitical in terms of colder intake temp (cf. Wildcard).

 

I reckon rain wont be a problem. rain drops fall, they rairly go up. any small drops that do will be so small it will be like driving in fog. then they have to go through the fillter and my guess is anything that reaches the motor is going to be vapour.

the one thing that worries me about getting rid of both VFAD tubes is the system is tuned. at low rpm only the long intake path is used but at high rpm both the long and the short tubes are used.

will the long and the short openings together produce a different tuning to just using the short high rpm tube?

 

so nobody has tried that intake yet?
from its looks, it must be worth the money... hks and k&n are expensive too...

 

hks is expensive but no way near the price of the k&n....you can get them for like 200 bucks now..haha

 

Huff had a group buy last year and sold the K&N intake to us for $165 shipped. good deal at the time.

 

why dose everyone like the K&N fillter? from what I've seen it's a hot air intake that ruins the tuned length manifold. at least the HKS one has an air box of sorts.