MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Modifications & Technical Area => Performance Modifications => Topic started by: GtiMaxi on September 04, 2014, 07:25:38 pm

Title: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: GtiMaxi on September 04, 2014, 07:25:38 pm
Been hunting around recently for an intake as I got a bit of money to spend just now, but I seem to be going in circles and getting nowhere!

All the forums seen to be revo related and I'm not wanting to waste money when all I had to do was get the right answer from the right person! Guessing this is the holy grail to GTI knowledge  :notworthy:

First of all I currently have a 05 Gti with a k03, it has a full stainless decat with a non res miltek box, on the induction side I only have a standard box with a k+no drop in filter, before I go intercooler I figured getting more air was more important than trying to cool half the amount of air I could potentially have! I got it mapped at r-tech so it's all running fine and dandy just now and once I have whatever I buy I'll have it redone by r-tech!

Basically I want to know what people think is the best intake on the market not worrying about a price or anything, cause I'm caught between the twintake system and the revo technik race system! There's probably loads more out there and I just a need pointed in the right direction from people experiences and/ power gains
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: bacillus on September 04, 2014, 07:40:29 pm
Revo...
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: dansmith180 on September 04, 2014, 07:50:17 pm
I currently have an 05 k03 with a twintake, it made some decent gains with it and I love the way that it looks but its commonly known its probably not the best intake out there but tbh there's not so much difference between intakes on the k03 compared to k04 cars. Nobody has put a car on the rollers and tested all the intakes back to back to see which one is really the best so tbh its very difficult to get a straight answer, from what I've read revo, itg, evoms are highly rated most of the time.
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: scopes on September 04, 2014, 08:55:37 pm
Revo

http://www.revotechnik.com/product-details/air-filter-intake-kits/20tfsi-high-flow-air-filter-intake-system#.VAjC52PD99U

ITG

http://www.itgairfilters.com/

dbilas

http://www.dbilas-dynamic.de/dbilas_eng/


VWR

http://www.volkswagenracing.co.uk/vwcore/air-filter/


All good !  :driver:  Some maybe better!
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: TommyR on September 05, 2014, 12:20:37 pm
Forget the twintake! These are the ones you should be looking at...

Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: Spankiee on September 05, 2014, 06:27:47 pm
I got ITG it's huge and sucks like a pro

Butttt if I had to choose again I might of gone for one with a solid pipe as there are lots of
parts and clamps to the ITG setup.
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: ED30GTI on September 05, 2014, 08:33:24 pm
I've got the itg , nice bit of kit , but as said there's quite afew parts to it .  :wink:
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: MC71 on September 05, 2014, 08:37:08 pm
REVO.

I've had a few different kinds and IMO it's the best.

 :happy2:
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: big eck on September 05, 2014, 09:00:02 pm
Evoms is a brilliant intake at a good price but doesn't look that special. The Revo is better and looks superb but comes with a hefty price tag. I've had both and the only reason I swapped to the Revo was that I got it at a fraction of the list price.
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: alexharvey on September 09, 2014, 11:46:40 pm
ITG ftw!
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: banksy21 on September 11, 2014, 09:08:42 pm
Revo ceramic FTW
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: Wardy91-ed30 on September 11, 2014, 10:04:36 pm
ITG ftw!

+1  :wink:
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: edition30jmr on September 13, 2014, 08:29:03 pm
You can't beat the revo ceramic for aesthetics as well as performance! Nice, clean, smooth one piece etc with great gains. Oh and the noise  :evilgrin:
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: DamoP on September 14, 2014, 11:32:27 pm
Evoms is a brilliant intake at a good price but doesn't look that special. The Revo is better and looks superb but comes with a hefty price tag. I've had both and the only reason I swapped to the Revo was that I got it at a fraction of the list price.
+1 evons, looks ok. brilliant performance
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: greygti on September 15, 2014, 03:17:42 pm
REVO,EVOMS,ITG -in that order
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: ReeceH13 on September 15, 2014, 03:46:30 pm
Can't comment on the others, but I had an ITG on my old GTi and it was amazing! Best mod I done.
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: AndyE30 on September 15, 2014, 03:50:44 pm
I've just had revo intake fitted to my ED30. I'm very happy and would highly recommend!
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: downsideup on September 15, 2014, 04:27:47 pm
I've just had revo intake fitted to my ED30. I'm very happy and would highly recommend!

Hi, I am looking at Mods for my standard ED30, what difference does this make?
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: dansmith180 on September 15, 2014, 04:33:34 pm
Just adding the intake will make it a bit more responsive and I found it breathes a bit better at high RPM's but is mostly a noise mod however with a remap and intake you'll see a very nice power gain and the same benefits as above but more so. Its still worth adding an intake without a map but to get the Max from it a remap is needed.  :happy2:
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: AndyE30 on September 15, 2014, 05:06:32 pm
I can't comment on intake at standard mate but remap and intake = transformed!
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: Sug on September 17, 2014, 09:33:23 pm
Evoms  :happy2: sounds like darth vader after a 100m sprint
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: MC71 on September 18, 2014, 11:59:14 pm
^^^^ They all sound like Luke's dad having an asthma attack to be honest!  :grin:

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1049.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fs399%2Fmcaborn%2F53315666ed17f08820b8a7477897c2fd_zps726e5e00.jpg&hash=8661a29f037a7ec838a118dea6868128c2d8ec4d)
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: Dan_FR on September 19, 2014, 07:34:26 am
Nothing wrong with the MTC kit on eBay, has been proven to flow well and is very cheap in comparison to the likes of the Revo intake (granted it's not as pretty  :love:)

Or you can make your own for even less
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: 56OctyVRS on September 20, 2014, 12:59:55 pm
Intakes are good if you drive hard everywhere i.e track day but be prepared to sacrifice low end torque, which is what you use when town driving. I had one fitted and then refitted the oe cover at stage 2 +.  I found it was a more rounded car with good low end/mid range and only sacrificed a few hp top end; which performance wise will not make a lot of difference. Also some intakes do mess up the maf readings and can lead to poor running. My car ran 270bhp with std engine cover and paper filter :happy2:
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: simpsb on September 29, 2014, 08:34:25 pm
(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/13980_10204300607222613_1765546265099356459_n.jpg?oh=15e37f34a4b1b3cfebc77adae02d0d8f&oe=54889913)
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: edd30 on October 10, 2014, 09:53:35 am
When does the standard intake become a bottleneck ?

For an Ed30 with a basic remap, will I benefit from a large cone filter and pipe to the turbo inlet?
Will this ghetto version work well ?  :grin:  http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=388067
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: jk99 on October 10, 2014, 12:45:22 pm
Another vote for ITG here, although all I can compare to is standard.
Title: Re: Personal opinions on intake and any advice
Post by: Pikey Motorsports on October 12, 2014, 01:40:55 pm
A k04 has basically got no lag anyway