Weapon R Intake

[CHROMEDCRUISER]

I found this intake today on E-bay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=38634

This intake has a foam filter on the end, and there's quite a big write up on why foam is better than the paper or fabric/oil (K&N) type filters. It also claims that a magazine named TPR did a test on just about every intake on the market, and the weapon R beat them all. What do ya'll think?

[bigdogdad]

Price isn't bad and the quality looks good.

[Mike-in-Orange]

I was looking at a foam filter similar to those last week - Adam brought one over after I had installed his V.A.K. system on my car. Like I said, it was similar, but I can't say it was exactly the same piece. The pointy shaped housing was identical as was the fishnet over the foam filter........draw your own conclusions.

My caution is this: when we held the filter up and looked through it - we could actually look through it!!! There were holes large enough to pass something probably 2mm wide through it!! An object the size of a bb (as in bb-gun bb) could fit through the holes!!!

Not on my car you don't.

[Konkeler]

$120 for that ugly thing!!!! Looks way to Ricey

I rather make my own out of PVC Pipe.

[santacruzer]

I have one on my car, but only for shows. I kept it on for about a week to see if there was any difference between that and the drop-in K&N filter. I am using it with Adam's VAK system. Mike-in-Orange saw an old beat-up one that my husband sent to Adam to use as a prototype, so he could make his pipe fit for that filter. The new one doesn't have any big holes in it. I noticed that it is louder and now the car really takes off from a stop much quicker than before. I have to adjust my driving to get used to the faster response. There is a picture of mine on Adam's website, prototypepower.com. It seems pretty good, but I probably won't use it every day.

[Mike-in-Orange]

quote:santacruzer 64 Posts

Posted - 06/22/2004 : 5:05:11 PM
I have one on my car, but only for shows. I kept it on for about a week to see if there was any difference between that and the drop-in K&N filter. I am using it with Adam's VAK system. Mike-in-Orange saw an old beat-up one that my husband sent to Adam to use as a prototype, so he could make his pipe fit for that filter.

OK, that's fair enough. Still, given the overall condition of the piece I saw, and the size and number of holes in the filter, I wonder if that filter is the weak link in this piece. It still seems odd to me that the filter, which didn't look dirty really, had all those holes!!

[CHROMEDCRUISER]

Would you recommend it, or should I go the K&N route?