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[ScottyB]

it might not be so much that it's bad as much that it provides no performance gain. this is the case with a couple turbo cars i can think of because the stock airbox is well designed and well heat shielded.

I have noticed that on a lot of turbo cars. intake does nothing on DSMs. The only reason we get different bovs is because the 2g plastic one doesnt hold anything over 15 psi, so basically its a first mod to replace it with a 1g, that can hold 25 psi crushed.

right, same deal with audis....our bypass valves are cheap plastic, meant to only deal with 8-12 psi or so. and the intake is right next to the hot ass turbo so unless you heat-shield and duct the hell out of a cone-style intake you lose alot of power. but the stock intake doesn't satisfy my inner-rice because the bypass valve sound is totally snuffed out