Top Secret Dual Cold Air Intake 370Z

Caravanshaka

Just call each of them and tell them you are going to conduct an intake shoot-out, and if they have faith in their product they can supply you one. Hell, for injen and stillen, you could find someone to buy them at a discount pretty easily after the shoot-out for a "lightly used" set.

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phelan

In turn, Ken, let me give you an honest response. If I read it correctly, Chris is actually asking what are dimensional feature changes between the various systems. We've seen the dyno, but we can't understand why the results came out as they did. Did TS put something inside the tubing? Does the material used differ, and hence some sort of thermal conductivity coefficient come into play? I highly doubt it, but considering the intake we're talking about, I would not be surprised to see some curveballs being thrown. I'll take this moment to say that I have the Injen intakes, and I'm by no means biased towards either party in the Smoky vs. Stillen thread.

I think he (and I) are approaching it from a more design engineering perspective than anything else. Again, it's academia, but they're engineering questions that deserve engineering responses, not a dyno sheet going "hey I made this much power" and making hand-wavey gestures as to how the power was made.

I can understand certain things being "proprietary design", but to my initial review, Top Secret has done nothing different than HKS in the design of their intake.

Also the way you have worded it is misleading. I honestly have no doubt that companies would love to "stack up" against each other and would be happy to provide something for a test bed. Each has taken the time to design a product, I'm sure they stand behind it, now we get to see how they do against each other. It's like any other car-related war (like the domestics are fighting right now between the Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger). (EDIT: Caravan beat me to this point lol)

Now word it to say "please provide a sample so I can prove to this annoying forum-goers that Top Secret is so much better than your product", and yes you will get some negative responses. It's all about how you approach the problem.

Again, I invite you or a representative of your company, as the primary Top Secret suppliers on this board, to approach someone in TS and see if they would be willing to answer some of the questions we have. They're not hard. I can translate to and from Japanese too, if necessary.

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Caravanshaka

better yet, say that you will hold an auction for 1 week for each of the intakes that were used, and 80% of the proceeds that their intake got will go back to them, and 20% will go towards the cost of the dyno runs. The better gains will obviously sell for higher, and will give the company a little extra $$ for being the best

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m4a1mustang

Who knew a short-ram intake could destroy the world.

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Trips

you guys want to Stop it your making!!!!!

Simply put these are Cartier bolt ons thats it!
They have a price market thats above the normal bolt ons out there.
if people don't like them fine, but don't argue for things that the vendor can't do too much about.
if the vendor could sell them at half the price I'm pretty sure he would.

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m4a1mustang

Well I can't wait until I can get some Louboutins to fit my Rays.

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Trips

Really! is that the fall collection?

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Swat Performance

m4a1mustang,

That is the funniest thing I have ever seen! Thank you by the way. Look, you either get it or you don't. I simply offer this Intake, I did not make it nor am I trying to force you to buy one. I do stand behind Top Secret beacause I like the brand reputation and I like the mastermind behind their greatness, Smoky Nagata. That's it, that's all. Some of you take this stuff way to serious, lol.

Ken Sanders
Swat Performance

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m4a1mustang

Fixed

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Swat Performance

Thank you brutha!! Wow!

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m4a1mustang

Now can you get me that Mine's spoiler for $200 like I asked?

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phelan

lmao you kiss-***!

Ken can you arrange something, considering your hook-ups with TS? I'd love to talk to them regardless. I know Japanese, so no problem

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Trips

勝つためのトップの秘密！

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frost

私にとっては非常に多くのお金！

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