It could be for some peeps. Think of it as designer intakes.

 

Wow a bent tube and a filter..... sounds like its worth 1000 dollars to me. First person on here that buys that I will laugh at.

 

That is just crazy. I guess they are putting an extra $500 in the intake to make up for shipping to US. Top Secret FTL on the intake.

 

That's like wearing Gucci underwear lol too expensive and the only one seeing them will only be taking them off anyways haha

 

doesn't anyone remember status elite? lol

 

looks like the HKS, and Top Secret only pull hot air into the motor, unlike others that are CAI,

 

I think the best buy if you don't have an intake already would probably be Stillen Gen 3

 

Fixed it for you.

 

Personally I would not put the mushrooms of death on my car. I believe there were some issues with those filters.

 

It has been discussed alot on other forums, their mushrooms are made with very porous material. They are exteremly free flowing and orginally designed just for track racing purposes where water/debirs is not an issue. They are not a good idea for daily driving at all. You would pretty much be guranteed to get crap in your engine.

 

1k+ for INTAKES? they better take turns giving me a reach around if I ever went insane and bought those.

 

+1 on that....I'll keep the ones I have and spend that on other mods

 

You must have Injen?

 

The stock intakes seem very good imo with the simple HKS drop in filters for extra airflow...unless you're looking for an aesthetic mod or going FI.

It's not as if the stock intake design are restrictive by any means, the gains coming from these various aftermarket intakes are from the positioning and airflow across the sensors that in effect alter the ECU functionality to alter the trimmings and also effect timing...in which case a simple COBB AP or any decent tune would be more effective without any aftermarket intake.

Some of these aftermarket intakes (I hate to say) like the RC2 e.g look kind of silly the way the rubber moldings are stretched and kinked along the heat-shield.

 

$200 for the intake, $800 for the name. Stupid.