[RS777]

There is tons of information about air intakes with various views on standard air boxes. Some say they are good for 600hp and other say 800hp if they have a decent filter, rear pipe, elbow and vent mod in the base.

I saw a lot of info regarding Eventuri intakes not making the power they stated but lately saying the gen 3 version for the RS3 is much better. It claims 25-30hp gain above oem but there’s no figures of gain over performance panel filter, rear pipe and elbow. It’s not the £1500 price tag that bothers me but more fitting it and getting 0-5hp gain.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

[garethdj73]

Nothing other than a view, void of any experience with the RS3 specifically...

I just don't trust all the open cone designs, surely going to suck in nothing but hot air and actually hurt the performance. Even those with some degree of air box/heat shield but different to factory.

My previous car, Civic Type R (2019) was notoriously temperamental in this regard and Hondata (APR equivalent lets say) did a pretty good video to show how all the intakes actually hurt performance, note Eventuri was missing though. Before anyone shoots me down yes I'm using a civic to talk about an RS3!

https://youtu.be/J1JLNuPd6Vc

There's a very well known RS3 that runs a massive AWE carbon intake, local to me, may well be on this forum. No offence, I'm sure on the right run day or run on the dyno it makes great power but just can't see this being reliable when the car is hammered or on a hot day.

If I go stage 2 I'm highly likely just to go panel filter, hard pipe and turbo elbow as I understand the disruption to and restriction of airflow here to be the biggest issue rather than the filter itself.

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[RS777]

Nothing other than a view, void of any experience with the RS3 specifically...

I just don't trust all the open cone designs, surely going to suck in nothing but hot air and actually hurt the performance. Even those with some degree of air box/heat shield but different to factory.

My previous car, Civic Type R (2019) was notoriously temperamental in this regard and Hondata (APR equivalent lets say) did a pretty good video to show how all the intakes actually hurt performance, note Eventuri was missing though. Before anyone shoots me down yes I'm using a civic to talk about an RS3!

https://youtu.be/J1JLNuPd6Vc

There's a very well known RS3 that runs a massive AWE carbon intake, local to me, may well be on this forum. No offence, I'm sure on the right run day or run on the dyno it makes great power but just can't see this being reliable when the car is hammered or on a hot day.

If I go stage 2 I'm highly likely just to go panel filter, hard pipe and turbo elbow as I understand the disruption to and restriction of airflow here to be the biggest issue rather than the filter itself.

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I am with you 100% on the open filters of any kind in the engine bay. It just doesn't make sense to suck in hot air which is the opposite fitting aftermarket ICs which cost a ton of money.

 

If you do go stage 2 I have the parts you need which are being removed as soon as the gen 3 Eventuri arrives.