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Title: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: Scottr60 on February 09, 2017, 02:54:44 pm
Does anyone no the Benefits off going for ram air oversize
Compared to standard  one, looks to me oversize is a waste off extra cash
Cause it reduces at the 90* bend anyway...
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: pudding on February 09, 2017, 03:01:33 pm
There would be zero benefit on a standard turbo.
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: bonelorry on February 09, 2017, 10:00:28 pm
Dreadful Intake the Ram-Air.
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: MIJ_JAGGER on February 09, 2017, 10:46:52 pm
My oversize will be up for sale soon, can't stand the noise anymore
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: unzippy on February 10, 2017, 11:17:55 am
Dreadful Intake the Ram-Air.

Any particular reason why or is that just your opinion?
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: pudding on February 10, 2017, 11:43:56 am
I think it's the noise that puts most people off.  If we delve into the murky depths of this forum, we also see a lot of comments from people that these 'filter on a pipe' type intakes blunt the off boost responsiveness too.

On the facebook group people are always selling on these kind of intakes.  Must be a reason for it  :smiley:

Do BMC make a CDA kit for these cars?  They used to be great intakes back in the day.
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: MIJ_JAGGER on February 10, 2017, 11:06:38 pm
Haven't had any probs with the kit but it's just me and not liking the intake noise anymore
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: barelyrelevant on February 10, 2017, 11:55:30 pm
I think it's the noise that puts most people off.  If we delve into the murky depths of this forum, we also see a lot of comments from people that these 'filter on a pipe' type intakes blunt the off boost responsiveness too.

On the facebook group people are always selling on these kind of intakes.  Must be a reason for it  :smiley:

Do BMC make a CDA kit for these cars?  They used to be great intakes back in the day.

Surely the noise will be exactly the same as any of the filter on a stick options though?

I've not read anything about off-boost responsiveness, how long are you off boost for with a k03 if you put your foot down anyway? 1/4 a second?

There's no BMC kit that I know off, I imagine it would be not too difficult to make something up like this from one of their standard CDA's though.

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fconneem%2FAir_Filter%2Fmotorraum.jpg&hash=16193374414aeb9660b4ef0071426074c6842b5e)

Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: barelyrelevant on February 10, 2017, 11:56:39 pm
To answer the OP I personally went for the standard kit because the oversize seemed pointless on a standard/stage 1 car and I didn't like the look of the extra joins/lumps it would have made in the pipework.
Title: Re: Mk5 edition 30 ram air
Post by: pudding on February 11, 2017, 05:51:33 pm
I think it's the noise that puts most people off.  If we delve into the murky depths of this forum, we also see a lot of comments from people that these 'filter on a pipe' type intakes blunt the off boost responsiveness too.

On the facebook group people are always selling on these kind of intakes.  Must be a reason for it  :smiley:

Do BMC make a CDA kit for these cars?  They used to be great intakes back in the day.

Surely the noise will be exactly the same as any of the filter on a stick options though?

I've not read anything about off-boost responsiveness, how long are you off boost for with a k03 if you put your foot down anyway? 1/4 a second?

There's no BMC kit that I know off, I imagine it would be not too difficult to make something up like this from one of their standard CDA's though.

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fconneem%2FAir_Filter%2Fmotorraum.jpg&hash=16193374414aeb9660b4ef0071426074c6842b5e)

Thanks for the pic!

It's the KO4 engines that suffer most as they are naturally laggier anyway.

Open cones make the most noise, enclosed ones like the VWR and BMC are quieter.  I had a BMC on my old VR6 turbo with a great big GT35R turbo and it wasn't noisy at all  :smiley:   They're good filters.  It freed off 13hp on my standard VR6 many moons ago, with no loss of bottom end either.