Good luck going through a puddle or hard rain. Your engine will likely be taking in water and going to shit in short order. If its only a summer car, that's OK. Otherwise you want a cone filter with heat shield in teh engine bay where water don't get in. See Signature Motoring for the best quality heat shields and performance intake kits for the E46 series.
-COLD AIR intakes need a HEAT SHIELD. Otherwise you LOSE power.
@BMWCAI That intake does have a heat shield and there is nothing wrong with it in respect to hydro-lock if you have a pre filter on it. This style of intake have proven to have the best gains. You guys parade all over youtube advertising the intakes you sell. All your intake systems do is create a box of heat that the filter sits inside of. There is a reason why the heatshields seen in K&N, AEM, aFe are plastic or treated with special paint to resist heat.
Good luck going through a puddle or hard rain. Your engine will likely be taking in water and going to shit in short order. If its only a summer car, that's OK. Otherwise you want a cone filter with heat shield in teh engine bay where water don't get in. See Signature Motoring for the best quality heat shields and performance intake kits for the E46 series.
-COLD AIR intakes need a HEAT SHIELD. Otherwise you LOSE power.
BMWCAI 1 year ago
@BMWCAI That intake does have a heat shield and there is nothing wrong with it in respect to hydro-lock if you have a pre filter on it. This style of intake have proven to have the best gains. You guys parade all over youtube advertising the intakes you sell. All your intake systems do is create a box of heat that the filter sits inside of. There is a reason why the heatshields seen in K&N, AEM, aFe are plastic or treated with special paint to resist heat.
lllMspired 6 months ago
hey i just put a cai on my 740il and it smokes white smoke from exhaust. all my clamps are tight and all my sensors are in place. whats wrong ??
nightmare3428 2 years ago
@nightmare3428 you are burning oil
lllSupra 1 year ago
did you install yourself, and was it hard?
DCJodon 2 years ago
should have gone K&N
itsalldownhill19 2 years ago
nice! I have that same car. Can you really feel the difference after putting in the intake?
drummerboy88776 2 years ago
u save a bit on gas mileage A TINY BIT
but mainly sound difference lol
lots of ppl compliment me having a nice turbo lol
typersti 2 years ago
heha it sounds better on my 328is. it is spoused to help with gas miles, but it is true that u will hit it more to hear it.
Turkoglu67 3 years ago
it whistles cause of the intake ... it does the same on my civic
alandaking66 3 years ago
sounds like turbo.... is it T.C.'d?
gators12707 3 years ago
ya it sounds amazing when u gas it
ull waste more gas cause ull wanna hera it more often
typersti 4 years ago
much better?
BMW620 4 years ago