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SergeK
02-04-2006, 08:05 PM
Well, i installed the intake, after 4 days of Fedex playing PONG with it, sending it back and forth from Miami to Boynton Beach. Turns out they had the wrong Zipcode.

Anyways, install took about 30 mintes. Pretty straight forward... only a few things confused me. I have a 96 328i. I was TOLD that I have an air sensor in my stock airbox and some sort of charcoal thingy under the airbox (said so in the install procedures). But uhh, had no temp sensor or charcoal thingy. I was confused at first since someone said 96+ 328s had a temp sensor. I check the sticker on the drivers door and its build date said 12/95. Guess that kind of makes sense. Anyways i went ahead with the install. Hardest part of the install was getting the damn heatshield in there.

Anyways once i finished the insatll i took it for a 15 minute drive to get my mother and go to the store. Once i got home i opened the hood up to check all the clamps and hoses. Everything was perfect. I even noticed a HUGE temperature difference between the engine bay and the heatshield.

As far as performance. I did notice more "pull" between 4-6k. I havnt really been able to take it all out since its rainy and such. It growls nice and loud. Not TOO loud, not soft. Just perfect IMO.

I give this mod a 10/10. 1/10 on install difficulty.

Up next - Shark Injector.

Zippylock
02-04-2006, 08:10 PM
nice! you will notice a gain after the injector is installed:)

Mitch
02-04-2006, 08:12 PM
Congrats. BMW makes beautiful sounding engines. They just need a little help :D

SergeK
02-04-2006, 08:16 PM
Is it at all weird about the temp sensor?

Zaks
02-04-2006, 10:26 PM
it's not weird at all. i don't know where you got your info but 328s don't have the sensor in the airbox, OBDI cars do before 96.

SergeK
02-05-2006, 05:56 AM
Hmm. That makes me feel better.

BTW, got to test the intake. I was goin home on I95 and ran across a Debadged Mercedes about to pass me at 100mph. I quickly gunned while he was about 2 cars back. I was pulling really really really well. I mean, wow, what a difference. Once it kicked into 4th gear he started to gain on me. Im confident though, if traffic hadnt of crept up. And i wasnt about to hit my limiter, that i would have kept pulling on him. Few mins later we exchanged thumbs up and went about our seperate ways.