Their website has a dyno on it claiming 11 hp gains. I am skeptical. Should I be skeptical? With a cat-back, intake and AccessPort would I be crazy to hope for 20 extra ponies?

2004 6-speed.

 

Yes. You are crazy.

Intake and only cat. back would be on the order of 5-10 total. Midpipe gets you 5-10 alone. Spend money on that instead.

 

crazy....

 

I figured as much. I did not trust the claims of 11 extra ponies from an intake. Seems a bit far-fetched.

I won't do the midpipe however because being an environmental geologist working on my masters in climate change it would be a bit hypocritical. However the more I study it the harder it is to find a definitive link between anthropogenic CO2 and climate change....CO2 was ten times the level it is at today in the Cretaceous and while it was a lot warmer then there were most certainly no Rotary engines smoggin' it up.

 

Realistically there is some improvement from intakes but it's on the order of 2-3hp. Racingbeat and AEM/Mazdaspeed are the best. The K&N V2 is also well put together but louder than the others.

Depending on what you're looking for I would pick one of these three.

I like the RB one myself.

 

I have it for a long time, probably the first on the whole Rx8club.com.

but I do not think there is 11 HP increase. 5 the most.

and to make it "useful" you do need something like Racing Beat's Ram Air duct or Re-Amemiya Duct(expensive). VFAD will not work well with it.

 

I just say stock airbox mod is the best and cheapest....unless ur looking for something shiny under the hood....but then u could just wrap the stock box in aluminum foil

 

Naw

put lots of stickers around it.

it will make it

 

Finally someone who gets it. Not that we should be blatantly anti-environment, but Mother Nature has far more impact than we mere mortals. Besides, methane release is a much more significant factor than CO2.

I went the RB duct to stock airbox with a K&N flat filter myself.

 

I have yet to see any real data that modding the stock airbox does anything to improve performance. I want to see someone do this and datalog the MAF. Until then I would not recommend this as an improvement.