Zac Black Alloy intake question
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Zac Black Alloy intake question
Hello everyone. ZAC is comming with new black alloy intakes for the w205 and its for a reasonable price. Is this considered a cold air intake? They do provide heatshields with them. I've tried looking allover to find some more info about these ,but nothing comes up. What performance gains can I expect with a stage 2 car?
https://www.zacmotorsport.com/collections/amg-c63-w205-2015onward/products/c63-black-alloy-w205
https://www.zacmotorsport.com/collections/amg-c63-w205-2015onward/products/c63-black-alloy-w205
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Hello everyone. ZAC is comming with new black alloy intakes for the w205 and its for a reasonable price. Is this considered a cold air intake? They do provide heatshields with them. I've tried looking allover to find some more info about these ,but nothing comes up. What performance gains can I expect with a stage 2 car?
https://www.zacmotorsport.com/collec...ack-alloy-w205
https://www.zacmotorsport.com/collec...ack-alloy-w205
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I will wait for someone to actually get it and install, so voice my opinion on it then.. I am happy with my MW at the moment.
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not sure what you expect. It says it’s aluminum mandrel bend. So, its the same as the CF version but aluminum. Latter for sure has a much different heat conduction factor but not worse like BMS or others none CF versions. Not sure what you think defines a cold air intake - the name came from early days when intakes were designed to suck air from front or under car where air is colder. Some still have those design where engine layout allows it. Like my Nismo had AEM intakes which had tubes under front of bumper. Most what is called “cold air intakes” today are not “cold” but just allow more air into it. ZAC calls them SHF - super high flow. Same here and same for MW or even eventuri or Weistec. Any heat shielding here is to avoid to have even hotter air sucked in but for sure not “cold air”. No such thing when sucking in air next to turbo and not from somewhere where air is actually colder.
Btw, I am going to sell my ZAC CF with heatshields soon. So, if you want CF ZAC below even those “black metal” versions, PM me.
Btw, I am going to sell my ZAC CF with heatshields soon. So, if you want CF ZAC below even those “black metal” versions, PM me.
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not sure what you expect. It says it’s aluminum mandrel bend. So, its the same as the CF version but aluminum. Latter for sure has a much different heat conduction factor but not worse like BMS or others none CF versions. Not sure what you think defines a cold air intake - the name came from early days when intakes were designed to suck air from front or under car where air is colder. Some still have those design where engine layout allows it. Like my Nismo had AEM intakes which had tubes under front of bumper. Most what is called “cold air intakes” today are not “cold” but just allow more air into it. ZAC calls them SHF - super high flow. Same here and same for MW or even eventuri or Weistec. Any heat shielding here is to avoid to have even hotter air sucked in but for sure not “cold air”. No such thing when sucking in air next to turbo and not from somewhere where air is actually colder.
Btw, I am going to sell my ZAC CF with heatshields soon. So, if you want CF ZAC below even those “black metal” versions, PM me.
Btw, I am going to sell my ZAC CF with heatshields soon. So, if you want CF ZAC below even those “black metal” versions, PM me.
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so of these others do NOT do that and yes you end up sucking in more hot air then cold from outside.
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