yea, so we G's are gonna need a strut bar... I can be your guinea pig, I just need to take the plenum as payment for my G's time... LOL!

What if you cut away some of the support bracing on the underside of the hood, only in the area where a taller strut brace would go.

Would this give enough clearance for a taller brace to fit above the new manifold and still not touch the bonnet? Would it weaken the structural integrity of the hood too much if you removed some of its bracing?

heck cut the hood and let the world see your bar! When they ask why, you say "because GTR"

Too much talk about the strut bar.. Honestly get this thing into production and worry about the bar later.:hello:

That bar plays no factor for me in deciding to buy this.

1. This thing is a metal intake and is sexy as phuck. +:tup:

2. This thing has proven gains. (More than expected IMO) +:tup::tup:

3. This opens up the engine more and tests were only on a N/A app. Imagine TT/SC or Direct Port:happydance:

I'm ready to pull the trigger. All the talk of strut bar issues or the need for one or fabrication of one can come later.

That should be the next venture after this goes into production and should not be the reason for delay of this.

Lets do this Chris! I'm ready:tiphat:

lol JC671 is right down to business! lets get those price tags showing. Im ready to want something else I can't afford!

Good points. There needn't be a straight across bar when a pair of shorter triangulating bars (shock tower to firewall) braces could be fab'd later if at all. Just priced a GTR IM at the dealer here and they want $800.

Exactly..... Unles auto-xing or drifiting a hardcore bar IMO is not needed. As far as the actual GTR manifold it can be had for less online. The key to all this that Chris has tested and fabbed is the lower plenum. :tup:

LOL sorry man:icon18: That's the old school Sgt in me kicking in. Quit all the non-sense and streamline the end goal lol:bowrofl: Lets get this thing rolling. :happydance:

Different priorities I suppose :tup:

I would like to see more results to validate the gains. Preferably, on a car that's already tuned with full boltons.

That would be cool but being that this is only a prototype and the guy who is innovating here is not some big company with endless money for R&D.

If he had all the bolt ons and tune people would as for gains with just the intake maniold and nothing else. You have to take what he gained with what he has as the starting point.

He's not fully tuned with it so gains are only gonna get better and he has minimal mods so that's a great gauge of what may come or is possible.


Unless this goes into production no one will know what other gains are to be had unless you get one or fabbed one yourself.

Take what he has done, know that it fits, it works, and do some innovating and be the first with TT with it or SC or in my case Direct Port Nitrous.

I know this manifold will perform and will not be just some engine bling that decreases power.:tup:

The work is done thanks to Chris:tiphat: just need this in production

Chris, when can we expect results from the tuning session?

I would really like to know a ballpark price and/or if there will be a group buy. As I stated before, Kinetix is the ONLY other non-plastic manifold/plenum out there and they are sitting on the fence right now. If I can't have this, I will be forced to allow them to develop and test on my car (or wait until someone else offers their car) and I LOVE driving my car. Please square us away. Service Members (and Prior Service) hate the hurry up and wait game, since that is what we do most of the time. So, again, please square us away!

Chris,

Can you sell the adapters for those of people who dont want to wait for any more dyno result? (like me)

I want to get this ASAP

X2 :tup: I don't need further results. I'm sure a tune and more dyno time will only increase the gains made.

Most def. I am not interested in the tuning results on a NA Z since I am TT'd. I just want to get rid of the plastic plenum, lol.

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