The Stephens Intake Guide - keep.needs updating

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:23 pm

[quote="kenny_ip_2000"]interesting, i havent bought the pipes yet but just wondering the bend closest to the throttle body is that the 90 degree bend or the 45 degree bend?[/quote]

its a 270 degree bend :evil4:

nah only kidding it is 90 degree, only problem i find with it is it touches my battery brace thing the side of it, not a big problem just annoying

**Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:06 pm

[quote="Murray"][quote="kenny_ip_2000"]interesting, i havent bought the pipes yet but just wondering the bend closest to the throttle body is that the 90 degree bend or the 45 degree bend?[/quote]

its a 270 degree bend :evil4:

nah only kidding it is 90 degree, only problem i find with it is it touches my battery brace thing the side of it, not a big problem just annoying[/quote]

lol cheers

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[quote="Murray"][quote="kenny_ip_2000"]interesting, i havent bought the pipes yet but just wondering the bend closest to the throttle body is that the 90 degree bend or the 45 degree bend?[/quote]

its a 270 degree bend :evil4:

nah only kidding it is 90 degree, only problem i find with it is it touches my battery brace thing the side of it, not a big problem just annoying[/quote]

cut it down then :S

**Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:46 pm

[quote="stuartspel"]Being such a top mod this induction system, surely.....could someone design a special decal for its prowess.........?[/quote]

Indeed think there should... :thumbup:

Had a few minutes free and i thought i'd get the ball rolling on this:

[img]http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t85/ziggy323f/intakelogo1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t85/ziggy323f/intakelogo2.jpg[/img]

Come people where's those photoshop gurus :thumbup:

Help needed all :thumbright:

**Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:51 pm

Oh very nice ziggy! if these kick off i will have one as ive just ordered the parts for the intake

**Posted:** Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:03 am

how much has it cost you fella in total?

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:07 am

Ziggy those looks brilliant!

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 12:34 pm

Cheers hoping a few more members can do some more also.. but im feeling the top 1 ;-)

Matt what you think...? :scratch:

You got any ideas for a special custom decal?

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:13 pm

Had a few spair mins, text on the pipe needs a bit of work but you get the idea.

[img]http://www.teamgloster.com/decal.jpg[/img]

Ben

**Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:16 pm

Zig - i think with everything (mandrel bends, couplers, induction cone, breather filter and clips) it came to around £80 inc delivery, give or take a few quid either side

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2008 9:41 pm

Still no one tried for the V6?? might i be the 1st?

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2008 9:55 pm

On the decal just have the writing, i wouldnt want a full colour pic on my car...

someone do a silhouette black image of the intake with stephens intake written across, that'll look the best on a car.

**Posted:** Sun May 11, 2008 9:59 pm

[quote="DaveMc"]Still no one tried for the V6?? might i be the 1st?

[/quote]

I've tried it on the V6, just haven't posted pictures up yet.

**Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:52 pm **Posts:** 5152

whats happening with the Type-R stephen?

anyway, anyone who's done this got a spare airbox....i wont say why.

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[quote="A L 3 X"]whats happening with the Type-R [b]stephen[/b]?

anyway, anyone who's done this got a spare airbox....i wont say why.[/quote]

stephens is his surname - first name is matt :thumbright:

**Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:52 pm **Posts:** 5152

ugh....wondered why he put matt at the end of his posts or something lol

its not my fault i've had a drink lol..........anyway does he still ahve that nice estoril in the garage thing?

**Posted:** Mon May 12, 2008 2:09 am

[quote="maylander739"][quote="DaveMc"]Still no one tried for the V6?? might i be the 1st?

[/quote]

I've tried it on the V6, just haven't posted pictures up yet.[/quote]

from the looks u dont need the 90 angle only the 45 can u confirm this?

**Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 7:46 pm

This is how I've got my 1.8 at the moment. Tucked into the wing is a big twin mushroom filter behind the AndyM intake. The 1.8 really likes the longer induction setup and the low end torque is dramatically improved.

[img]http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3692/pic7qm4.jpg[/img]

(still haven't fitted the bracket for the breather filter)

**Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 8:02 pm

by the way, that's not the place to put a water temp sensor block (gold thing). Any time I stop the exhaust manifold cooks it and the gauge shoots up to 120.

**Posted:** Mon May 19, 2008 8:07 pm

[quote="scott5050"]
[img]http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3692/pic7qm4.jpg[/img]
[/quote]

Nice

How many and which bends did you have to use to get that setup? And in which order with how many couplers?

**Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 8:43 am

Looks cool Scott.

Will it not cause any problems with air flow with the air filter being so low down and the air having to travel further and upwards? Or does it not matter?

**Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 11:22 am

In general, longer distance from the throttle body to filter will give more torque & less power. Shorter distances will give the opposite.

I really like the difference in driving it now. It runs out of steam more quickly at the top end but the torque makes it much more fun, even when driving fairly gently.

**Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 11:24 am

Bends are 90, 45, 90 in that order.

Most couplers are 63mm but needed a 63-72mm to go onto the throttle body side of the MAF and another to go onto the filer.

**Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 11:25 am

Cheers Scott. Nice one :thumbright:

**Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:52 pm **Posts:** 5152

i'm thinking of doing this but wouldnt want it that far if it tops out too soon

:s

**Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 10:50 pm

alex wait til your driving and you'll realize you don't get to use the top end power much, well not if you want to keep your licence. if your going to take it on the track you can alway reduce the length of the pipe while your doing the rest of your pretrack adjustments.
nathan

**Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:52 pm **Posts:** 5152

yeh good idea.....i may go on a track at show occasionally.....but would be embarassed if i drove shit lol(although my mum says i'm a good driver ^o) )

would be a good idea to wait till then before buying the stuff as i need plug s and leads now

just wondering what would be a good distance for more torque than standard but nt topping out too soon....probably just like the original stephens intake?

**Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 11:22 pm

[quote="nat1979"]alex wait til your driving and you'll realize you don't get to use the top end power much, well not if you want to keep your licence. if your going to take it on the track you can alway reduce the length of the pipe while your doing the rest of your pretrack adjustments.
nathan[/quote]

thats why i removed my mahoosive decat, it was becoming such a pain to enjoy it daily driving, you had to rev it so bloody much to move off at a decent pace :roll:

just route it to cold air alex, a shorter pipe within the engine bay gave me loads of noise and sluggish as f@@k, i made a longer one routed to cold air outside the engine bay and blamo, excellent!

shorter apparently gives you a snappier throttle response but i didn't notice it, it was just sh@t, so bad that if it stayed like that i would have been tempted to sell :lol:

the place i know that works well is the engine undertray vent, thats where mine is others that ive heard that work really well is the andym style intake

**Joined:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:52 pm **Posts:** 5152

yeh atm i just have the standard pipe with a duct routing to the undertray....maybe a stephens intake a bit lower down but with a duct from the front bumper.....would i stll get the noise though

**Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 11:46 pm

well i'm thinking of having my standard box with a k and n filter with the andym bumper intake. i want to replace the rubber hose to the tb with some shiney pipe. don't know if it will have any performance effects but it'll look better lol

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