Not trying to stir things up with Tony since I feel he has done alot for the dml, make a
great product, and has been very helpful with a couple of questions in the past. I have
never bought from him solely because I am not sure what I am going to do with my intake
and I didn't know about him when I bought my TB (got mine from b&f instead and they too
made a great product in my opinion). I do want to bring up the Canister intake from
Intense Performance. Otherwise known as the Stage III kit. I am not sure I can agree that
it would starve the air intake. I understand where that may be thought but it is a 7" or
9" filter with a canister that looks to be an 1.5" to 2" around that. It has a solid 3"
outlet tube (as is now common) and it has a 4" inlet tube that is a piece of flex tube and
has an air intake bell at the end. If the bell is located behind the gril it would catch
alot of air into it and flow directly into the filter. This, btw, has an inlet in the
middle of the top so it doesn't have to flow around the sides of the filter to go in. I
have seen these filters around town and checked out several of them and they don't look
like crap so I think the design of that is sound. The canister may get hot at idle but
under accl. ther would be air flowing through it and that would help to keep it cool. You
could also do the same thing if you don' t like the can (i'm not sure) and attach the
flexhose to the end of the filter but have it exposed in the engine compartment while
still flowing back to a 3" tube. This would be fairly straight through for the air-flow as
the before mentioned but would be more suseptable to the engine compartment heat. I think
this is the stage II kit but need to look again. I have never seen anywhere that the
engine heat lowers ebough with the filter up front to not absorb some sort of heat soak
that would affect performance. I am not endorsing anything about intense performance but I
am rather curious about the different setups from him as compared to a setup like tony's.
Again, nothing to harp on Tony just my observations on something that has been brought up
and that feel is something to discuss on the list. Simpler terms, I;'m just looking for
unbiased opinions about what you think about this type of design. I am personally going to
purchase the Intense stage III kit later this month and will also set it up in the stage
II form. I have been assured that if I don't like it I can return it which I will do. If I
had enough money I would also buy Tony's kit just to compare more for my own feelings and
ideas about the two designs. I have a gen II and right now the only thing I can do is
purchase and airhat (already done) and fit the different kits up or stick with the open
element heat suck (yeah it's better then stock but not much in hot weather). Tony, I am
not addressing this as a flame but as my personal opion on an idea that you don't agree
with. PLease don't take it personally. If you want you can email me personally to continue
this discussion and even maybe come up with a different design or see if it is really
needed. Just tinkering I really would love to come up with an affordable higher flowing
airhat. Sorry for such a long post everone but this is something that I don't anyone has
tried and tested out. Just want ideas.
Jeff Durling
'96 RC Sport
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