Akuma Motorports 370z Intake

370Z Purist

I'm not too convinced, Stillen engineers say 18 whp (realistically, still about 10-15 whp), and they're selling at 500 right off the website. A vendor here could offer them, shipped, for less than what is offered right now by you guys at Akuma.

I'm all for the little guy coming up and also providing us with more alternatives, but I'm not seeing many good reasons right now. I also realize I sound ridiculously pretentious but yeah.

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-Phil

"Since one of my brake light bulbs just went out, the forum told me that my piston rings are about to blow."

Kevin@AkumaMS

I can absolutely see your point of view however consider the following....
Our products have always spoken for themselves and for our price your getting better intakes designed and tuned by someone who is a professional.

All of the other intakes including stillen, injen, and aem go for over $500 on there website and unlike theres we include free coding if you have an uprev or cobb AP, or your welcome to come get a tune. I dont see any other manufacturer of intakes offering that high of customer service in order to make sure everyone has a great set-up for there car.

Anyone who gets a set please put up a review!

cdoxp800

Also a WAY Better design then Stillen.

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370Z Purist

You're offering a free tune, I know that, but does your tuner know enough to tune for every other combination of bolt-ons? At this point in the 370Z's marketed life, a large portion of owners already have invested in an exhaust, other intake mods... etc. Or are you only offering a tune if these intakes are the only mod? Also, Cobb dropped support for the VQ37.

Other than slightly different bends, I don't see how this design is that much better considering it still makes the same amount of gains. If it were truly a better design, not only would it be cheaper (not considering the tune), it would produce better power. Seeing as Stillen's primary market is Nissan, I don't see how you can necessarily surpass that kind of massive engineering manpower. Akuma is just entering the territory of the VQ.

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-Phil

"Since one of my brake light bulbs just went out, the forum told me that my piston rings are about to blow."

'10Anamoly

First of all, it is not a real tune per se, but an adjustment to correct the fuel multiplier so that the engine will read correctly with the increased MAF housing diameter vs stock. My understanding is that there are no other air/fuel or spark adjustments. This is nice of them to provide though, although it is necessary as well.

I dont think the bends are a problem on the Stillen as it is quite straight before the MAF. The only "advantages" that have potential are the one piece design for looks and possibly a bit better airflow and the increase in piping diameter to 2.75" vs the Stillen diameter of 2.5".

However, we do not know how the diameter increase actually affects the overall power curve because we do not have a direct Stillen vs Akuma comparison with all other mods kept the same. This is why I mentioned a few times that we need that before people should shell out any money if they already have the Stillen Gen 3's.


Stillen has professional designers as well, although I do not doubt that Akuma does as well. Show us a dyno please with a direct Stillen Gen 3 vs Akuma 2.75" comparison to demonstrate the "better intakes" comment. If the Akuma intakes dont make more power, I dont see how they would be better other than aesthetics, which is a lot to spend $500 for. Nobody is bashing, we just need to see results vs your competition to buy into these at the price point they are selling for. The longer that people go without seeing evidence, the more they probably will think there is no supporting evidence. The same thing went for the Kinetix manifold for the 370Z which was never shown to have gains. Turns out, it did not make any gains, which is why Kinetix never provided dyno evidence to support their part.

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2013 Ford Mustang GT

374rwhp, 360rwtq SAE / GT500 Axle-Backs / Brembo Pack / Track Pack / Recaros / 6spd

slynx

I share the same feelings as 370z Purist. Although I was anxiously awaiting good results from this cai, I am slightly disappointed that these new intakes are at the same price point as the stillens. I was definitely interested in showing support for a small company, but if I had to choose where to drop $500, I'd go with the bigger name.

'10Anamoly

You cant expect people to shell out another $500 for intakes without dyno proven gains vs a Stillen setup, otherwise stock for stock or with the same mods on the same car for an even comparison. Just my $0.02.

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374rwhp, 360rwtq SAE / GT500 Axle-Backs / Brembo Pack / Track Pack / Recaros / 6spd

Kevin@AkumaMS

-We have done a comparison of stock intake verse our intake and the only mods the car had on it was a catback on our mustang dyno
-Saw 20whp increase (dyno results are on the first page or 2 of this thread)

Kingbaby

Getting comparisons are always hard!

To get the most out of long tubes is tuning and a good shop fan! Evening road tuning if possible, closer to simulating road air temps/density helps get the most out of them.

Cause in the end a pipe is a pipe no magic vudu!

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'10Anamoly

Yep, but we need them for sure on this similar of a product. A lot of us are very curious to see how the consistent 2.75" diameter affects the power curve. That will make a difference over the 2.5", we just dont know how specifically.

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370Z Purist

Exactly my point. Stillen's engineers are VQ masters. Not only that, but Takeda has also released their cold air, which is VERY similar, but offered at a slightly different price point. From what we've seen on forum member's cars, the gains are also very similar. I don't know about the piping on that product, but 2.75" piping will reduce intake velocity, obviously, and so it might make some difference.

Otherwise, I'm just gonna call it here and just say they're all the same damned thing. Pipes.

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-Phil

"Since one of my brake light bulbs just went out, the forum told me that my piston rings are about to blow."

pbts

I'm just gonna add that the advertised gains on the group buy page was 8-12whp last week and has now been changed to 12-14whp.

'10Anamoly

Dyno will tell all. Maybe Akuma could send a set out to someone for a before/after dyno with other mods kept the same to avoid bias.

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370Z Purist

Seeing as they were previously trying to source a Z in NJ for doing comparo dyno runs, they would probably have told us if they reached a result. Since such a thing has not happened, I guess we're still waiting on legitimate, concrete dyno evidence.

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-Phil

"Since one of my brake light bulbs just went out, the forum told me that my piston rings are about to blow."

Kevin@AkumaMS

We have no exact comparison to the stillens or anything yet only comparison from stock intake to Akuma Rev 2 Intakes