REV-I what you really thought?
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REV-I what you really thought?
I have read several posts here such as the "your favorite mod" and many others and no-one here really advocates adding intakes. I cannot seem to find a dyno plot of before and after and racing beat only claims ~2hp for most of the useable power band(2-8300). Which brings me to my question, What did you guys really think?
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Not quite worth the removal of my front bumper and two hours work for 2hp. I am a "newbie" but I have done alot of reading here and so far only the RP supercat midpipe looks to be a good mod. It appears to add and honest 9hp and some sound. I will probably use it with the stock exhaust.
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Not quite worth the removal of my front bumper and two hours work for 2hp. I am a "newbie" but I have done alot of reading here and so far only the RP supercat midpipe looks to be a good mod. It appears to add and honest 9hp and some sound. I will probably use it with the stock exhaust.
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I look back on how I spent my money on all my modifications... If I could have changed the order at all, I would have bought the Racing Beat flash first not last.
Tune first, and then maybe the placebo intakes/exhausts will become tuned placebo intakes/exhausts
Other than that your doing it for the noise
Tune first, and then maybe the placebo intakes/exhausts will become tuned placebo intakes/exhausts
Other than that your doing it for the noise
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take a look in the Tech section for my dyno thread... We dyno'd 19 RX-8's on the same day and 5 of the top 6 hp cars had RB intake or exhuast... hmm.....
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Again, not sure where people are getting this notion that 2-3 hp across the board & 6-10 hp on the top end is a "placebo" effect. No NA mods are going to give you much on the low end, not even the hi-flow cat, pullies, cat back exhaust, flash, anything. It's an NA mod just like everything else. The hp gain is on the middle-top end.
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I like mine, definitely felt an improvement in the upper and mid ranges over my stock one, but as posted previously not quite the bang for the buck you'd hope for.
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g30ffman: The problem with answering your question is the unreliability of the data we have to work with.
- K&N once claimed their intake was producing 10+ hp. Some forum members did before & after dynos only to discover they'd LOST hp.
- Most RX-8 intakes will only produce a few hp here and there. I believe the main reason I went with the Revi is because I feel the Renesis simply needs better airflow to the engine and I think the Revi + duct helps accomplish that.
Even RB claims only around 3hp and possibly a little more at high rpm's.
- K&N once claimed their intake was producing 10+ hp. Some forum members did before & after dynos only to discover they'd LOST hp.
- Most RX-8 intakes will only produce a few hp here and there. I believe the main reason I went with the Revi is because I feel the Renesis simply needs better airflow to the engine and I think the Revi + duct helps accomplish that.
Even RB claims only around 3hp and possibly a little more at high rpm's.
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g30ffman: The problem with answering your question is the unreliability of the data we have to work with.
- K&N once claimed their intake was producing 10+ hp. Some forum members did before & after dynos only to discover they'd LOST hp.
- Most RX-8 intakes will only produce a few hp here and there. I believe the main reason I went with the Revi is because I feel the Renesis simply needs better airflow to the engine and I think the Revi + duct helps accomplish that.
Even RB claims only around 3hp and possibly a little more at high rpm's.
- K&N once claimed their intake was producing 10+ hp. Some forum members did before & after dynos only to discover they'd LOST hp.
- Most RX-8 intakes will only produce a few hp here and there. I believe the main reason I went with the Revi is because I feel the Renesis simply needs better airflow to the engine and I think the Revi + duct helps accomplish that.
Even RB claims only around 3hp and possibly a little more at high rpm's.
I've been debating swapping my k&n v.2 for the Revi. Not yet convinced that its worth my time and effort. Maybe with the RB flash the extra high end flow of the k&n v.2 will be worth it?
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I would say go with an intake you like the looks / sound of the most. Off the top of my head, I would recommend:
- Racing Beat
- AEM / Mazdaspeed (they're the same)
- Racing Beat
- AEM / Mazdaspeed (they're the same)
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Rythmic: I want to say it was Version 1.... (been a while since I read the post) I'm leaning towards V1 just because the 8 hadn't been out long and people were skeptical about the claims.
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