It would be nice to dyno your setup. I was looking at another thread that list an air intake that boasted of a 23 hp gain. I achieved that on my 66mustang with a 4 barrel Holly and flowermaster.
If I knew that you your exhaust set up and the AVE intake set up would give me 30 to 40 hp, I will drop the coin to do that.
Short version: intake/ exhaust is good for cool points, and sound. For actual performance, significant power adders are needed.
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Yes, in theory that’d be cool. I think that 30-40 hp is on the optimistic side. In the best case scenario of 40 hp, would the truck actually be faster? I say not really. Back in ‘99 fresh out of high school I was really pumped about getting into cars the first project was a 98 240 sx. I drooled over the magazines and saw the bolt on performance #s and thought wow all these parts together will give me an extra 40 hp and this thing will be a beast. Well I did intake/exhaust and big brakes. It was just as slow after as before. I quickly learned that you need forced induction to make ANY appreciable performance gain on that car. At the time that was too expensive.
A few years later I got a 350z. It was much faster than the s14 I had, but still wasn’t impressive. Again I did bolt ons, and again was let down. It sounded awesome, but was no faster than stock really. Single or twin turbos were once again the key there, and also too expensive.
I was jaded by the time I got the Evo, but I knew that I could make a significant (noticeable) amount of power and did that. I got an bigger 3.5 “ intake with larger Maf housing because it was need to ingest the air required by the bigger turbo. Not because it’ll give me 10-15 hp (pointless). Same with the exhaust.
Example. My wife has a Jaguar Fpace 3.0 supercharged. There is a 380hp and 340hp version which are mechanically the same but one has a more aggressive tune. We have the 340hp one. Motor trend tested both on different days and in their test the 340 hp version was faster in 1/4 mile. This illustrates that conditions and driver can be more of a factor than 40 hp. Now it does have 3 driving modes and 2 transmission modes. Driving modes are “eco”, “normal”, and “dynamic”. Each is VERY different and noticeable as far as acceleration punch. I feel like this is probably like what the pedal commander does. It alters throttle mapping.
