so last friday Jose and I took a saw to the intake resonator and chop them off. the result is great with a nice and throaty intake suction noise. my foot tells me the throttle response better up top. 5th gear passing from 80-95 without drama.

also did the caps



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I removed the intake resonators a few months ago. I agree with your assessment, they definitely give a throatier intake sound, and perhaps a little better throttle response. It definitely didn't hurt anything

where is the intake resonator?

You mean intake baffles right?

can you guys show me where the intake baffels are? and what you sawed off. i want to try this mod out. thanks

take apart the part where the square green filter label is and it's pretty self explainatory

Hey Frank,

which part do you cut out?

you need to first remove the airbox from the car and pop open the resonator box careful not to break the tabs on either side. I broke one of them and had to ziptie the resonator box to hold it together), take the chambered inner tube out, cut and leave the ends (you'll need the ends to put the resonator box back onto the airbox.

thanks

do you mind sharing what kind of paint you used for the engine cover?

dupli-color Candy Apple Red.

thanks Frank

I won't copy your engine cover

just make sure you sand and use a higher heat resistance primer before you spray the color.

i like candy Apple yummy!

haha, nice frank!! you going nuts with ur mods!

waveykat, thx mike

silvac32, thanks jerry, i'm finally somewhat catching up to you

how it looks when sun hits the candy apple red.

do I hear plans for a Carlsson RS Widebody?

Hey Frank I noticed what appears to be a carbon fiber hood on one car is it? If so where can I get it? Also where you get the paint for the engine-cover? What grade sand-paper and what primer and color? Was it stripped down to bare or scuff the original paint only.

FrankW

did you wrap your intake with foil for heat resistance for the intake temps?

robert, that's a no...lol

c32used, it is a VIS CF hood on Jose's car. you can search VIS's website for thier dealers for one. they run about 5-600.

I think it was the 150 grit to strip the original paint and 600 to somewhat smooth it out. forgot what primer, but the color is candy apple red by duplic color as mentioned in above post.

jturkel, no it's not foil. it's Thermo-tech heat insulation cloth. i was going to cover it with some stockings, but didn't get around to do that.

++ do it frank.

Hey Frank I never heard of VIS so please write the website and thanks for other info.

visracing.com

I went to link but when I put info into search boxes like make, model, etc and carbon hood it shows nothing. Am I doing something wrong? By the way where you get the Duplic paint at?

i think this may be it:

http://www.visracing.com/newcatalog/...duct_info.html

A step by step tutorial to do this intake mod would be really cool for slow people like me!! I am about to install some phenolic spacers so I figured I could do it at the same time. Thanks in advance