Lads,

Need to book the car in soon-ish to sort out a little niggle with the tune (methinks its a boost spike in 3rd at around 4000rpm but I'll ask RTorque about that).

My search skills are clearly failing me as I cannot for the life of me find threads about losing torque with CAI's (or I could just be an idiot...probably)

So as the title states,

Should I keep my Hyperflow CAI and simply have the car looked at/re-tuned or go back to the stock air-box + STI air filter?

Car has a Blouch TD05H-18GXT, PW TMIC, 725cc ID injectors, Walbro pump, Grimspeed BCS, AVO silicone inlet pipe and Butler TBE

Makes 226kw/375Nm on 17psi right now but before that was making 153kw/400Nm on 15psi with just the exhaust, pump + tune. (torque spread is better now but I wonder if I can get some torque back from the stock box in giving up some top end?)

Cheers,
Shane.

Add some new headers for more torques!

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Keep the CAI (I love the sound personally) and as Craig said, get headers (EL).

Go back to stock box.. They are fitted for a reason and last thing u want is a pod filter sucking hot air

Do the in gaurd ones combat this problem well??

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2005 WRX STI

You won't suck hot air in the guard - that's the hole reason they put them there.

Thought the issue with the in-guard ones was closer to potential water ingress when splashing through puddles? So long as all your guards are in place though I would have thought it would be alright?

Talk to the tuner Shane, see what he reckons.

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Ryan

Better chance gettin water sucked up in there..

Plus mighty car mods did a test on one of there shows with a n/a and a turbo car... Test results were stockbox with paper filter>stockerbox with k&n filter> cold air intake>pod filter

Keep the airbox imo but I like a pod due to the increase induction noise :P

and CAI in teh guards may suck up water if you run into deep puddles and dont have a guard liners....

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Chinese Mexican
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Standard air box with 90mm pipe going into inner guard, still sounds good and looks stock, had no trouble in over 6yrs with my home made Bunnings set up.

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