The induction of the trophy car and the one you were referring to in your last post look remotely similar. The trophy car induction is a piece of art work. the cheap copy is just a copy in terms of looks. I have tested on the rolling road in conjunction with other induction kits in a test on the TU1JP engine (1.1). It was down on power against stock as the worst of all tested kits. The best of the kits was 13bhp up against the trophy copy. The second worst was Piperx Viper. The K&N 57i was 2bhp up on stock, but lost torque low and mid range.
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1st point . i said nothing about similar or copy did i? I DO KNOW WHAT I WAS REFERRING in my last post.i am here to learn also, but dont take me as uncultivated in terms of performance parts or engine mods.
so you're saying that a 1.1 litre engine will behave as a 1.6 vtr with the trophy intake ?or in terms of comparison between diferent engines with same induction ?
correct me if i am wrong !
SMALL diference in the size of the engines you are comparing.1.1 against 1.6...
another SMALL diference, 1.1 is maped by Citroen to be just another reliable and economic engine and the 1.6 it is a sports model with a ecu management for performace!
another SMALL diference : the 1.1 is 8 valves and the 1.6 is 16 valves.
doesn't it make the test you carried out on the 1.1 a bit disproportionate against the vtr ?
Also ,as far as i believe the air dynamics of the intake on a dyno is not as driving on the road.... is it?!
if you do believe i am wrong , i am here to learn. but untill evidence to the contrary i will stick to my believes.
amount of air is important as is the flow rate as is the temperature and the purity of that same air going to the engine .
i think we all know that , but for the matter , we are here to give some advise to a guy that wants to spend litle money..... i could tell him to go and buy expensive , but he's asking for something "cheap".
one more thing i learn on the world of engine tuning. mods might not work well on your engine and do the job they are intended to do on mine.
other question.
how much for the best intake kit "in test" ?
sorry any misspellings.