you know, theres nothing wrong with a foam filter. HKS has been making them for years, for many turbo cars like 1000 + hp Toyota Supra.

Just curios if any one went on to do this or tried it out??

Except the fact that the HKS filters don't filter worth a damn.

I'm trying a variation...

The first pic shows fitting and the second is completed. Sorry for the quality of the second pic. It was taken with a cell phone.

Since the pip is still taped on, is this a prototype? Would think this kit make our SC 100% times louder !!! There is a way to lower the temps on those intake pip, i been doing it to my RACE hondas for years.

SteveL I can't say I am a fan of the look....without the original engine cover and airboxes it takes the beasuty away...

Yeah I'm not crazy about the look myself but thank goodness we don't drive with the hood up. But seriously, I'm more interested in the gain than the look and the setup allows for a quick swap back to stock. The Needswing intake isn't the most beautiful thing either. I thought about going with SL55 airboxes but I'm hoping for better gains with this set up.

Not to bad looking. From an airflow standpoint I would put a plate/shroud that contours the back of the filter so that you are feeding cooler air from the front of the car into the system vs. warmer air from the back side.

I think the first pic is the prototype and the second cell-phone pic (with the piping welded, and polished or coated) is the final set-up.

SteveL, you've done a ton to your SLK (custom headers, custom intake, custom LSD) - thanks for keeping the rest of us in the loop Out of curiosity, what kind of rwhp is your car putting down these days?

Correct. The first pic was just for fitment.

Indeed, a lot of changes. On 91 octane we are at 360 rwhp but I am currently having the headers redone. While the originals looked good in pictures and given the constraint of needing to be bolt on, there was no collector. There was a gain but only 10 hp. We think with adding a collector, no small feat in the SLK, we can improve flow and power. the current design just had too much restriction without a collector. So with the redesigned header and intake I'm hoping for 375 rwhp on 91 which I think is close to the max with a 178 mm pulley.

So is this item R&D ? is it going to be on the market soon ? or this is some sort of personal project your aiming for. I love it cant go wrong with 10 HP.

I guess you could call it R&D. Vadim came up with the design. It is custom but I'm sure more could be made. However it would be different in a C32.

i asked vadim about it. there's no room to adapt this to the C.

I know this is an older post, but I just had to chime in on this. This guy obviously has NO idea what he's talking about. I got 31 Wheel Horsepower with just this intake. What a tool... That is about the most self-assured ignorant thing I've read in a long time.

I agree, this intake set up is going to be my next mod for sure.

I built my own intake for my SRT-6 and it works/sounds great. I used some 3" aluminum intercooler piping, cut to fit then powdercoated. I also have the AEM dryflo filter, which is nice because it does not require oil. The needswings is dyno proven piece and you can't go wrong. I just chose to do it on my own.