The black oil would make it much more difficult to see when your filter is dirty. And after the first time you clean the filter the red will be gone and you can change colors then but pick a color that will still show if the filter is dirty.
You make a good point. I guess I'd go for grey then.
That's guessing.
No it isn't. I'm in my car 8 hours per day so I certainly know the IAT's. Before the ECS system on a 110* day my IAT wouldn't come down nearly as fast. If you have the stock system just look into it and you'll see that hardly any air is directed to the air filter especially with an open intake like I have. Now 100% of the air goes directly to the air filter.
How quickly you move, how hot the turbocharger is, how heat soaked the IC is, how heat soaked the intake manifold is, what the outside air temperature is, will all affect the intake air temperature. You're proposing that you are able to account for all of those as you drive around by glancing at the IAT reading? And how often have you swapped between the ECS part and stock?
ECS also has the driver side open. Stock part you have to open it up. I have the EU block off plate and have opened the drivers side and installed the ECS scoops. I can’t prove this does anything but makes sense to me that it would help direct cooler air to my open filter better than the stock part did from the factory.
Nice! Looks like it should. Thanks.
For guys that want to get a dry filter it would be nice if you specify the size.
Its on their website
Thanks for posting that. I don’t need an intake but I saw guys were asking about the size.
For a company that loves to toot it's own horn about it's engineering prowess there's a lot of generalizing surrounding this product, except the flow test.
