My New LiteSpeed Racing Titanium Cold air Intake
 

About a month back I bought my new intakes. In my search for a cold air intake I wasn’t in love with anything on the market (I've had the car for pretty much two years come October so been looking for a while) until Litespeed Racing titanium cold air intakes came out. This is my first modification for the car and I’m happy with my decision yes they are expensive but no regrets. Install took about 3 hours mainly because we were trying to be careful to not scratch the intakes. Same install as the stillen G3

Pros
*The intakes look amazing.
*Though I can not actually hear the intakes the sound of my engine has changed. sounds aggressive.
*Customer service is a 10/10 no problems at all fast responses.
*Most important no check engine light or codes and I feel more of a response in the car in which im happy about.
Cons
*The clamps suck and they are to small and need to be replaces they feel cheap. But no big deal I used the stock clamps.
*You really need to be careful not to scratch the intakes.
*And the Air senor did not fit in the intakes, Had to sand down the intakes in order for them to fit.
*Also now that the intakes are in my engine bay they look small. Buy look fancy.

Speacial thanks to pbhakta, Jacksonz32, LiiteSpeed racing
Here are my :pics:

Nice CAI. Any plan to tune+dyno?

AFAIK, there hasn't been a single published dyno test on these yet, even though Litespeed said they dyno'd similarly to other CAIS.

From the looks of it, the tubing is on the smaller side. Coud you measure the outer diameter?

Did you have to cut through the core support like the G3’s?

Yea had to cut the core just like the G3's

I've never did a baseline so I wouldn't know the real gains even if I did a dyno test. Yea i'll have to measure tomorrow just got home from a 10 work day.

Dear lord please tell me you didn't pay a lot for these?

Ti usually means you paid a fortune for it. I'm afraid to ask.

Price on Litespeed's website :tiphat:

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Man props for being different. Looks good . But damn I see that price on their site.......shiznit!

Wow, that's pricey. Ti always is. It's expensive and a pain in the *** to work with. It looks sweet, though.

Very nice looking..... Holly Smokes Batman that effen price is high, but it is titanium.

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What's confusing? He paid $900 for a pipe! People in Africa are starving and he paid $900 for some tube that does nothing over anyone else. Hell he paid $400-$500 more for some pipe that only weighs a few ounces less than other people's aluminium pipe. He paid $700-$800 over drop ins for a whopping 3 hp if he's lucky and that will only be in part of the powerband he won't be able to feel or will probably ever use. Just wow! Where's the bend over and get rapped icon?? :icon23:

It does do something other intakes don't. It's Ti. Aesthetics are important to some people, and they're willing to pay for it. It could be worse. He could have bought those $2k Top Secret intakes.

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People straving in africa huh....maybe instead of buying a 370z and a merc u shoulda donated that money to africa... gimme a break...


we'll be sure to consult you before any future mod purchases

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Talk about stimulating the economy. Money makes the world go round.

just find it funny that everyone flips out over an intake that costs $250 more than most others, but when someone buys a full gthaus system (double the price of most others) or a tommy kaira hebi bebi its totally acceptable. kinda ironic don't ya think?

Yeah I find it weird that people think the price is high for these. Going from stainless steel to titanium exhaust systems usually results in at least a doubling of prices, and this is still less than double what the GenIII's cost.

Try $375 bud.


Figure of speech, relax cupcake.

Well dumb purchase IMO. Zero power over anyone else and zero weight savings unless an ant needs to carry it around the track. If you cut your hair that's where your weight savings will come from and you'd have $375 left in your pocket.

So your soul purpose in posting in this thread was to inform everyone that this is a bad decision in your eyes.... ? we have all bought $35k, rwd, sports cars, and the INTAKE is the bad life choice in this whole endeavor? :roflpuke2:

clearly we all have.. "special" priorities as it is. an intake is pretty low on the bad decisions list for this site. if that bothers u, i wouldn't advise looking around the members gallery

All right guys lets keep focused on what this is about.

I like them.

Would I spend that much? Probably not

I like the intakes. For that much money though, I would assume whoever buys them can afford a tune and I would have made the piping 2.75" all the way through.

I'm sure we all purchase things that others might not agree with. I would expect a little more respect from our forum members.

I would have bought these if i wasnt already going FI. I think they look great especially in a monteray blue car. More power to the OP for getting something he wanted for his car.

The system is supposed to be 7 lbs. I think this is less than other CAI's, and those few lbs could be worth it to a lot of people who want to go for minimum weight.

Ok? and you paid a tremendous amount of money for a 370z which is a car!when you can buy a Nissan versa for 15K new.

First off you sound ridiculous. People like you are the reason tuners and other companies aren’t running to our cars to support them. The other titanium intake option is 2200 bucks. I'm not after the highest gains so dude please don’t consultant me about where my money should go. I wasn’t paying for the gain's of the unit's I’m paying for the fact that they are titanium and that’s what I want period case closed. People are starving in Africa? really but yet again you bought a 370z? The price for these intakes are irrelevant I saved for them I knew these were coming out months a head of time. For those who buy the meisterschaft system purely on sound it’s no different. When you buy titanium you're gonna pay period nobody should be surprised.

Gorgeous intakes!

very nice intake system!

There are other purposes to modding other than power gains. Although intakes can be seen as a "power-gain" mod, paying extra to have an exclusive or different set, or simply the aesthetics of the intakes can sway a decision on which intakes to get.

I agree, that was the main reason i chose the whole Z1 motorsports silicone set in blue (K&N filters too), and a full Tanabe CBE (it was the whole package i had envisioned for an exhaust for the 370z). I wrote out a plan from bumper to bumper of what i wanted for my girl Vanity, haven't looked back! Mod until your completely happy i always say!:happydance:

this isnt africa....this is america, before we go about worrying about other people in other countries we need to worry about the starving/homeless people in our states...besides its his money he can do whatever he wants with it...


the intakes look badass if i had the cash to dish out i would def pick these up. hopefully the gains are similar if not better then the stillen g3.

Gorgeous intake pricey, but who cares. We all spend more for our parts then most domestic guys, but we do it anyhow. Its your car you enjoy it and are happy with your purchase, that's what matters.

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Well appreciate it guys. All I wanna do is put some info out on this system on our forum in case anyone is interested. I understand the cost but... hey I wouldn't spend a couple thousand on the amuse body kit, but I enjoy watching everyone do it because it looks bad*** just different priorities. This thread shouldn't be about price but more about another option we have for our Z which is pretty different.

Exactly thank you. I like to see ALL options for 370's so I'm informed on what to buy.

If it wasn't that it looked like it was pieced together (welds) for the bends I think it would look pretty nice. As it looks it the picture, looks like someone threw some pieces on a bench and said weld it together...

You can't really bend Ti. You have to cut and weld.

Guess you might want to explain that to these guys. I can see where it might be more cost effective to cut and weld, but don't make a blanket statement that it can't be done...

http://www.extremeturbosystems.com/i...o8ti-01-01.jpg

Okay. Change "can't really" to "it's possible, but a serious pain in the *** since Ti is much more brittle than steel or Al".