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Mathias the OK · #1 (**permalink**) 11-10-2004, 11:03 AM

Hello everyone.. I am new here and am really impressed with how friendly and helpful everyone is..

(Quick intro)
I picked up my Gallardo in early October and was pleased with everything but the sound. So I have just ordered the Quicksilver straight thru exhaust. I will post a video (sound) clip of it as soon as I have it on so you folks can compare to the other systems. The manufacturer of the system provided a video clip but the car was inside their shop and they used a sub standard microphone so it canceled out most of the noise...so again I will try and get a better quality one and post it.

Now on to the Intake...(I hope I am not violating any forum rules..I am not soliciting this for sale....)

I am part owner of a car customization/performance shop in Arizona USA and as such we just can’t leave well enough alone!

The Gallardo intake is not a ram air system, but is a directed air system.. as you owners know, the air enters thru the side vents which form into a rubber tube directing the airflow into that giant box and then u-turning it into the throttle bodies.

Problems I see:

The air box is sitting on top of the tranny with the Cats on either side..so as the car runs down the road, the box begins to absorb lots of engine heat.

Restrictive. The air must make a complete u-turn.. but this is not as much as a problem as you may think. (This will sound silly) As we dug into the car, I took the intake hose, sat in the passenger seat of my friend’s truck and held it out the window as we drove down the street...with the tube bent into a u shape or with the tube straight there is virtually NO noticeable loss of volume of air moving thru the tube. This is good.

What is restrictive is once the air moves into the box, it must pass thru the restrictive air filters and change direction moving up into the throttle bodies. With the box being square the air hits the inside of the box in different angles adding to the restriction.

Now Gruppe M has attacked the problem like a 4 year old swings away at a piñata... I think they have missed the ball completely.

What they have is a $3500.00 (+ or-) carbon fiber box...

Same size box..still absorbing the heat from the engine sitting on the cats... but with two round Greddy type filters replacing the factory square filters.

And from what I have heard only 2-5 hp?!?! so we are paying darn near $1000 per HP...heck Lamborghini can build you a whole a car for around $320-$350 per horsepower! (US dollars)

So our solution we think is much more efficient, easier to change the filter, lighter, and is a true RAM-AIR system.

Picture this..:

Look at your throttle bodies and picture two 90 degree pipes coming off either side (one left and one right) going into the air vent chamber (the vents above your tires) and inside that chamber a big K&N come filter facing directly at the air vent coming in the car. That simple. That is what a true ram air system is…the incoming air directly impacting the filter…and not passing thru a box sitting on the cats gathering engine heat.

The funny thing is it takes less screws and less time to change one filter than it does to change the factory filters!!

I will post pics of the completed system by next Monday. We have an AWD dyno here in AZ so I will let you know the HP gains...

Sorry for the lengthy post...hope you find it interesting..