AckTL05

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not sure about that perticular one but i would get a cold air.

SatinSilverAV6

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I have also noticed that with the 3rd gen TL AT. Most don't get out of the low 15's even with CAI. I can't even recall seeing 1 3rd gen 5AT TL run under a 15.1 without being modded. What is even more strange is that the 2nd gen TL-S had no problem hitting high 14's stock.

Xanderpants

no...?

Xanderpants

it's not going to do anything but slightly vary the exhaust note and grant a nicklesworth of hp's on the butt dyno.

Once you start driving more consistently, then light mods will start to matter. After all, there are people making far more power than you running equal times. They don't need more power, they just need more seat time at the track.


.... plus your car is too clean for an intake like that.

I hate cars

What happened is you went from the stock semi-cold air intake to sucking in all the hot engine bay air. Running your car on that 50 degree day was like running it on a 120 degree day with all that hot engine bay air being sucked in. In other words, you lost hp.

In stock form a TL's engine requires less than 300CFM of air at full throttle which the stock inlet tract and filter will easily flow. In other words on a stock engine, the intake is not a restriction and will not yield any hp gains with a better flowing filter.

What you need to do is get some cold air to the engine. Any popular cold air intake will do. Don't worry about the "best". They all include a fliter that will flow double what the engine requires and they all take air in from the outside. I personally make my own because it's ridiculously cheap and easy but if I were you I would shop by price as I doubt there's any measurable hp difference between the kits.

Another option is to throw the stock intake back on. If it makes you feel better you can always run a drop-in K&N filter but it's not needed. You can also just remove the resonator so you're still using the stock airbox and picking up air from right behind the front bumper but you're eliminating the additional plumbing. I guarantee you'll see every bit as much hp as an aftermarket CAI and it's free.

Dave_B

^Stock intakes FTW

AckTL05

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I would agree the stock intake sucks in air from the lower right front grille and that any CAI would do just never go short ram. I don't see why anyone would? If you make it yourself you can spend a little as 50 or less, I don't see how k&n and AEM charges an arm and a leg for something that doesn't set itself apart from a homemade one HP wise.

I hate cars

Honestly, you're paying for the pretty colors and stickers. Look at the requirements for a TL. A 3" pipe will flow more air than a TL will ever need. Any aftermarkt filter will flow waaay more than a TL will ever need. All you need is a filter and a pipe that connects the filter to the throttle body, and places the filter in the proper location, that's it. If a CAI meets those needs which they all do, one cannot set it'self apart from the others or even from stock with the resonator removed performance wise.

There's the fit and finish and looks of course, where one can be better than the other.

johnjohn1206

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well this is what im starting with
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2004-...Q5fAccessories

and then replacing the filer with the one i have on my short ram. which is like a specre or something

then going to the track sing if that made any difference.



and getting a ur pulley if everything works out


http://www.heeltoeauto.com/Unorthodo...-pr-63708.html

after that ill work on getting that full exhaust but probably after winter since the track will be closing soon

also ive been working on my launch it feels like some times i can launch by shocking it and sometimes its just a terrible laggy start