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[brooksy]

just wondering if anyone has a secret weapon-r intake fitted to a impreza rx, im looking at getting one for mine, mainly for the induction noise, if anyone has any reviews on them or has any suggestions, please let me know

[d(-_-)b]

yeah man, got one fitted on my 04 N/A forester, bought it from states. definately hear it, fuel consumption bout the same, down side, have to clean it quite regularly.

[brooksy]

oh thanks, when you say clean reguarly, do you mean cleaning the pod filter on the end?

[4rstr]

sounds expensive... why not just make a CAI from some metal piping and one of those blue silicon pipes from supercheap? same thing for much much less i'd imagine. and from memory there are no gains to be made from having both a pod filter and stock air box. or one or the other for that matter
also now i actually looked at the thing, it doesnt suck ambient air (cold), only engine bay air (hot)... so a little different to what i described. isnt the cold air more beneficial for 'power'??

[brooksy]

thanks for the tips, ill be heading down to supercheap shortly lol, but i really only wanted it for the induction noise, because on my rx there is a big airbox attatched the the carby, and that stops the air being drawn straight from the pod, im not familier with anyother models of subys but id imagine most would have that box, a neighbor who is very mechicaly minded had a look and advised me id need a direct intake from carb to pod to get the induction noise i want. thanks for your suggestion to go to supercheap, i didnt even think to go there lol but if you have anyother suggestions they would be greaty appreciated
thanks

[Scuba-Roo]

Your 'mechanically minded' friend isn't very 'mechanically minded' that's a throttle body, not a carby.



That black thing has an air filter in it. So putting new pipe and a pod filter at the end of that is sorta shooting yourself In the leg.

Straight pipe on the inlet of that black box should help with induction noise.

Or buy a 180degree bend that comes of your throttle body. You'll need to cut it to get the right angle and put a straight pipe on that, and then the pod.

Bit of effort for noise, but if it's what your into...

[brooksy]

haha i ment throttle body i just wasnt thinking, but the guy who told me just rebuilt the engine in his vy commadore ute, its putting out 760hp to the wheels, sounds like a drag car everytime he drives up the street. but yea im just gonna get an intake made up or buy one that goes from the throttle body to the pod, thats what you mean yea? also the pipes that connect to the black box and pipe theres 3 of them, can i block them off? i know i need to keep the breather for the heads

[4rstr]

the pic is off a forester, but the same engine/engine bay as yours as far as i can tell.



the pipe is just open at the end (thats all i and many others have). or as suggested above, remove that black air filter box, put the 180 degree bend and put the pod filter in the guard. if you do the second option, just dont get an oiled filter, can screw with your afm and make your car run shite...
but by all means get the weapon-r intake, this is just purely a suggestion as asked in first post.

[brooksy]

thanks for the suggestion. ill upload a pic of my engine bay soon

[Sam]

I have all the silicone bends, straight pipes and pod filter if your interested. Ready to go straight in..


You can see the white hose pipes coming from the intake, they attach to the hoses that are suppose to attach to the intake box, there are 3 of them.


The intake runs down into the side of the engine bay (not in the engine bay), and the pod filter sits behind the front fog light.
This is on an outback too, so similar.
If you wanted to save some cash, pm me and I can work out some way to send it to you.

Cheers, Sam

[Xon]

Is that garden hose Morgan, or does it just look very similar?

[Sam]

I think it's a heavy duty hose of some description.. Not your average green garden hose.

I'm not Morgan

[Xon]

Sorry Sam, your avatar confused me. Too many white outbacks round here.

[Sam]

All good mate.

[brooksy]

thats exactly what i need lol, yea i gotta figure out how to get the pod as far away from the heat of the engine, but theres not much room to run pipes

[Ben_20EJT]

me and my mate dit a diy on his gen3 lib last night, all bits from supercheap, $150 and he now has a full cai with pod, a few bits of 3" intercooler hose and crome pipe and your done, to easy. you just need to box it off and run a pipe from under you front bar to feed cold air to your pod, keep it legal by boxing it off, also keeps the heat out. or you just go find some 3" flexy garden pipe and piss the resornator think off and run it from the side of you stock air box (where you air filter is) then into the inner gaurd behind the fod light?vent in the bar. cost me $0.

my 2c worth.

thanks
ben.

[brooksy]

i have 3 hoses that connected in the stock air box, did the gen3 lib have those? if so where did you connect them to?

[Sam]

Yes they have them. Look at the pics I posted ^ and where the white hose is, is where it connects to the 3 hoses that were in the air box.
Does your engine bay look anything like mine? ^

[brooksy]

oh yeaa now i see, i didnt notice them, but yea it dose, for soe reason it not lettin me put picture on here, i was trying to upload a pic of my engine bay

[brooksy]

 IMG_0023.JPG   168.19KB   5 downloadsthis is my engine bay