Status Elite Intakes, Yes I own $800 short rams

LOU@AMPLIFIED

Ok my turn to chime in since the 2 pictures posted was of our cars

The first picture(370z) with the black STATUS ELITE intakes were just put in right before the show. We didn't have time to do any dyno's on it since we placed it last minute.

The 2nd picture of the G37, i posted the pictures because the dry carbon parts on the G37(Battery and Brake cover, Engine cover and Radiator shroud) was all done by Status Elite. Very high quality dry carbon products if I may say, but the pictures i posted was not at all intended to compare the intakes. I had the JWT'S on my G37 because they are one of my sponsors for last years SEMA.

The two intakes are slightly similar only because they use the same diameter openning on the filter but the velocity stack on both is completely different. The Status Elite velocity stack is much bigger and has a smoother openning. Now i don't know where the JWT'S are made but the SE intakes are hand made here in the US. I really don't know exactly why the SE intakes are that much more price wise but i can tell you that the process of them to CNC the velocity stack and the MAF adaptors is not cheap. Another difference is the pipe diameter used, The JWT is slightly smaller than the SE intake plus the angles and brackets are completely different, not to mention the SE intakes are one piece from the trottle body to the air filter, the JWT are two separate filters from pipe to the velocity stack. Plus, powder coating cost was not cheap for both filters

As for the rubbing issue on the resevior, status elite provided a different bracket to relocate the power steering resevior, I guess the person that sold you the intake didn't give you the bracket.

Im no expert on the 2 intakes mentioned but any short ram intake made for a specific vehicle should yield around the same dyno numbers or just a slight difference in gains but production cost can always vary

Diversion

Lou,

I do have the bracket, it was inside the box.. I was actually trying to contact SE on what the bracket was used for! I had a feeling it was to do with relocating the power steering reservior.. But how do I use it? SE still hasn't gotten back to my e-mail =(

Jay

Sashimi

You got it installed ? The owners of SE are friends of mine, they're installing some intakes for me in a couple weeks when I get back from Vacation.

any questions? I can probobly relay it to them.

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LOU@AMPLIFIED

Let me check out our z once we get it back from Mackin so i can have an answer for you. I know for sure that its just a different bracket for the power steering reservior, meaning you remove the OE and replace it with the new bracket and it angle's the bottle slighlty higher to avoid rubbing against the filter

hope that helps