R2C Performance Cold Air Intakes!?
 

Hey does anyone know about these intakes at all?
I searched the forums and couldnt find much on them...

2009+ Nissan 370z R2C Performance MaxxFlow Cold Air Intake

Seems like they have heat shields on them though they dont look too promising... pretty important thing to consider when ur living in the sunshine state (Queensland) in Australia!! hahah

Anybody installed these? Any dyno results!?
Or should I just buy the Stillen Gen 3's like everyone else :)

I have the R2C intakes. they are good for someone whos looking for something easy to install and maintain. Ill have mine for sale soon as im going a diff route..

mine will be forsale too. no issues just getting a SC so will not need them. I got spare tubes and filters too

Good system. Local to me and I've paid them several visits when they were developing the Maxima intake.

You'd be very happy with their system.

No other intake will give you as much gain as the Gen3, so if you are lazy, get these I guess.

Yes, the Gen 3s will give you the most gains, but install/maintenance is a pain, no matter what anyone says. :)

What sort of gains are people getting with the R2C intakes? And what do they sound like?

I just realised the other day that the Gen 3's "massive gains" are only at 7000 rpms so its a bit useless really if u cant harness the power... dunno wat they sound like but im thinking of just getting something like a pop charger that will maintain the stock power but make it sound meaner... that is unless these r2C intakes dyno results show good increases across the rev range!?!?!

I have the R2C intakes with the Modshack vent mod. They produce a little deeper sound and they are a little louder than the oems especially at high rpms. As far as the "massive gains" of the G3s, some dynos have them losing hp and torque in the mid-range.

G3s make more power than any short ram, usually if you hear otherwise is from people who have short rams. Ask for a third party dyno of the r2c and see if you can find anything.... a few folks on here who were all excited about the r2c said they were going to dyno and then fell off the face of the earth..no one ever posts a dyno sheet. I did an intake roundup in my blog, check it out, its in my signature.

and we all know RCZ word is law. lol

show me your dyno sheet. unless you never actually dynoed or you're too embarrassed to show them.

The G4s will.

Except for Top Secret if you want to spend 1.2k on those :rolleyes:

I still call BS on theirs till I see a non biased dyno from a forum member we trust.

I have a dyno from my Maxima, comparing Fujita and R2c. ;)

RCZ are you my boss? Go shove your dyno. I will do nothing that you request

If you're lazy, you won't be installing or maintaining the G3s. lol

I'm going to hold of on an intake until Up rev and Cobb advance their tuning abilities. Otherwise I'll have to pay once for the AFR tune and again to take advantage of the upgraded abilities in the tune.

^ good man.

You can tune your stock airboxes and make power, I like these intakes, for me they are too expensive so personally not my choice. I do run short ram HF filters though.
90% of the gain from long tube CAI are not from the intake temp but from frigging the MAF into thinking it has the same amount of air when its actually more creating a leaner condition, coupled with a less turbulant air path.
Before I get internet boned , yes I understand IAT and HP ;-)

90% huh? Very precise. :ugh2:

^ hence my last comment about internet boning
90 % 80 would 'most' beter suit lol

have you done the install and maintenence yet? Install took 2 hours, changed my filters out yesterday... took all of 20 minutes, TOTAL pain in my ass:rolleyes:

RED - what is the inter change for filters?

Hows that mustang killing doing?

Well you can typically just buy the K&N recharge kit if you have the patience to take your filters off and wait for them to dry, but I have zero patience, so I just went to autozone and bought two new filters, took the old ones off, tossed em, put the new ones back on, tightened them up and voila, good for another 5-8k. Bumper took me about 10 minutes to take off, 5 to install the new filters, and another 5 to put the bumper back on, I dont know why people are afraid to buy G3's because of this, it puzzles me. As far as mustangs go, thats a daily occurance, starting to get more from the Camaros lately, fun times.

Well good for you. Not everyone will want to remove their bumper/grille just to clean the filters.

How dirty were they? How long in between changes?

Umm...the filters only need to be cleaned/changed every 50,000 miles (clean at 50k & change at 100K), why are you changing them after 5-8k?

That's not really true....My experience (having sold 1000+ K&N based systems for Audi/VW cars), is to clean them about every 15-20K. Follow K&N's cleaning instructions and they'll come back just like new and last forever. You don't need to change them unless you damage them. Throwing away Re-useable filters is both wasteful, stupid and bad for the environment to say nothing of what it does to your wallet. I've brought K&N's back from the dead to look and perform like new..

Well that is what I am saying though, why throw away a good filter?
They are designed to be reused, I was just using the numbers I was given on the filters.

:iagree:...I agree on that....Just giving you some real world experience accumulated over Millions of miles on my airboxes. Anyone who wants to throw their K&N's away because they're dirty can send them to me. I'll pay the postage..! Tossing away $70-80 worth of re-useable filters is just dumb.

Both? Tri! LOL

Well to be completely honest with you, I just came from probably the dirtiest environment in the states, except maybe death valley or Barstow :) El Paso, TX is basically the desert, and the dirt is evident everywhere you go, in the air, on the streets, in the rain, the list goes on. I normally wouldnt change them until I have at least 15k on them, but due to circumstances, figured it would be best.

Zsteve, when I took them off, the underside was a little brown and a few dead bugs here and there, probably could have gotten a bit more out of them, but to be on the safe side, just said screw it and put new ones on.

And to the others, I understand that its wasteful to throw perfectly good filters away, however, im home on leave and being that my car is my only means of transportation, and had to be at a bbq later on that night (no time to let the filters dry), I just bought new ones.

Always a good idea, no matter what system you have, to have two sets of filters... :)

BBQ seems like a good enough excuse - you forgot to say, **** it , its my cash and I am loaded anyways;)

Agreed on second set

Werd to that.

Haha, i wouldnt say i'm exactly loaded, but I buy what I can afford, and I just so happened to have a little extra cashola lying around:tup:

you know you loaded man. Get that SC now. I finally got my stop loss money from the Army and after I get my house here in TX I will have to look at the SCs again. Im just worried about a shop doing the install and not having any experience with the kits. Dont want a YOU KNOW WHO happening to my car.

Hey what is the name of that shop that was offering the TT setup? I want to see if they will do a reduced labor cost for some advertising.

i'm not 100% sure, probably Speedfactory, give Dan a call, hes the one who told me about it. If you must go to Speedfactory, make sure you speak to a guy named Rich personally over the phone and make sure NONE of his students touch your car, if he does the work personally, then its all good, he knows his stuff and ASE certifies students at Western Tech. Other than that, i wouldnt trust ANYONE in EP with my Z. I keep hearing that theres a performance shop in Las Cruces that does excellent builds and specializes in Z cars, although its only hearsay.