JWT Pop Chargers - Pictures - Review - Dyno
 

Hello everyone,

I just received a set of JWT Pop Chargers, props to Mike @ DDM for a great price and even better customer service!

I will update this as stuff happens. I am currently waiting for the drill to charge, so here are some pictures of the intakes while you all patiently wait :)

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I will not apologize for my comforters, deal with it. Jerks. :icon17:

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Packaging:

Very well packaged. It looks professional and well protected. Nice job here.

Assembly:

Pretty straight forward if you have installed intakes before. For those of you who haven't, I hope you have good spatial cognitive skills since things may not make sense right away. You may have to stare at the supplied instructions for 10 minutes before things start to click. The instructions themselves are good enough to get the job done without being convoluted or confusing. Color pictures definitely help, but there is a bit of an optical illusion effect where you don't know which way the bends of the heat shield are going and it throws you off. Overall though, it shouldn't be too bad for anyone..

Quality:

Quality is pretty good. They look like they are well made and that is reflected in the beautiful welds. As you can see from the pic, they have a nice shiny finish and the heatshields are made up of two parts. The main body of the heatshields is metallic, but it has flexible flaps that will help it seal away from the heat once the hood is closed. The filters are a good size too and they seem like they have a lot of surface area to pull air through. MAF sensor housings also look pretty good and solidly welded on. Supplied hardware was all here, nothing missing. Also all the nuts and bolts are nicely packaged into their own partition depending on their application. Very nice touch which will help make assembly and installation easier.


Install:

Honestly this wasn't all that bad. The longest part was waiting for my drill to charge. Took about 30 minutes...kinda. If everything had worked out the first time around, I would've been done in around 30 mins, but I had a problem installing the driver side heatshield. It was mostly my fault, but I would advice folks to be careful when tightening the bolts that attach the shield to the car. The shields are made of soft metal and you will start deforming it if you start tightening too much. It is better to tighten and then secure with the bolt that goes in the hole you have to drill. Other than that, straight forward stuff. Use sockets if you got em, they will make your life a lot easier...

On the Street:

Well, you can definitely tell something has changed when you push it past 4k RPM. They make a nice deep throaty sound that I'm sure you can hear well from outside the car. Butt Dyno results are inconclusive and will have to wait until tomorrow when I can get into the taller gears and actually see points of reference. They sound great under aggressive rev-matching too. It seems to add a little more of a savage kind of a feel to the car. The sound just adds to the mechanical effect, you can hear the car breathe when you stomp on the gas. For those of you who may have felt a little disconnected from the experience ( I dont know how you could), this will make you more aware of the effects that your inputs are having. Makes it feel a little more organic.

I will have more for you guys tomorrow and hopefully some video if I have some free time.

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Thanks for the kind words RCZ! Hope you like them! Can't wait to see the dyno.

They look lovely (and I won't mention the duvet) - the front shiny bits are prone to corrosion, so look after them.

Any reason why you didn't wait for the Stillen G3's?

Not criticizing your decision, just wanted to know.

Who says I'm not? Will be testing those as well when I get a chance.

Fair enough, RCZ. I look forward to seeing your results.

Looking forward to seeing the results.

RCZ i am waiting for your dyno results .
and thanks for the review

I will get them asap. Hopefully this weekend.

Any dyno results yet?

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In for some dyno #'s.
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Trying to decide between the JWT or the Stillen...
hmmmm...

Cool, I should have these by next weekend.

what about the Stillen's G2?? the G3 is way annoying to intall and take it off for clean.?

It doesn't belong on this thread, but I will be doing a thorough review of the G3 next week. Lets keep this one focused on the JWTs guys.


Dyno Time has been scheduled for Saturday Morning.

oh! sorry...i wanna ask..how is the sound of the JWT? does it louder than G3? or around the same?

They are now for sale?.................so was a dyno ran or .............?

A dyno will be run this weekend, dont fret :)

It's nothing against the intakes, I just want to try others out as well.

it seems you will not have the dyno on this intake then? because you just did one on the G3....
but thanks for the write up..

I did dyno them, they made a 260WHP.

Was your baseline 256whp? If that's true there may of or may not of been a gain from jwt?

So is your current 278 with any mods or bone stock? So adding just the JWT pop chargers yielded a loss of 18 whp?

Just curious as to your current setup because mine is bone stock and I have also dyno tested the JWT pop chargers with no other add ons.

he's now using the Stillen long tube intake

Yup, the 278 was with the STILLEN.

I got 260 with the JWT's.

^Correct, he went from 256 hp to 278 hp as a result of the Stillen G3 intake.

thanks!:icon17:
just wondering, which one sounds louder? the JWT or the G3?

They are similar as far as sound is concerned. I think the Stillen are louder though.

So what was the baseline bone stock? The reason I ask is because I lost in the neighborhood of around 12-15 hp with just switching to the JWT pop chargers from stock... (my car bone stock = 261 whp)

:shakes head: :shakes head: :shakes head:

I have a feeling an ECU tune may change this but... needs more testing is an understatement for JWT.

hmm, I mine didnt lose power. I am pretty good at finding averages for this type of thing and I think the JWT's get you around 8hp...

8whp is right around what was expected. JWT claims 6.5-10 on the G37.