50 bucks cold air intake

[1NZYaris1]

How do you know it is crappy, have you bought one ,or do you have a cristal ball.

[jaserhunter]

i'm am sorry i even posted this. i was tryin to save some people some money (for the ones that dont have $200 for a CAI). i got a k&n drop-in to hold me over till i get money for the aFe or weapon-r one. on a side note it seems like no matter the topic people want drama. lets be friends i love you guys peace lol

[PetersRedYaris]

Originally Posted by 1NZYaris1

How do you know it is crappy, have you bought one ,or do you have a cristal ball.

How do I know? Look back to post #9 on page 1. I just pieced one together utilizing only the pipe (as it was the only descent piece) from a cheap ($50) kit. After replacing all the crap hardware I may as well have bought the Injen SRI kit.

[mikenacarato]

Originally Posted by 1NZYaris1

How do you know it is crappy, have you bought one ,or do you have a cristal ball.

YES...i have tried this kind of trash in the past....get some car smarts then you will understand

[1NZYaris1]

My personal opion is good on you for posting it .
as someone out there might look at it and think for $50. what have you
got to loose.
I myself splashed out the little extra and bought the AFE intake ,because
it , appears more stock than a shiney alloy tube , but some people like shiney
I just think it is sad when people on here constantly bag a product because
it the price is to cheap or too exspensive , and they have not even seen or tried it them selves

[PetersRedYaris]

Originally Posted by 1NZYaris1

Take this how you want , you people bagging this system are pathetic ,
if it was NST, Micro image , and so on, you would be all over it like a heat rash. And pay 4x that price.
Until you have used said product , how can you say what it is like .
advise is good , guidance is better , but bull shit bagging of a product because
you paid 4x that for your one is hard luck.

I've never been all over NST or Micro Image parts. I have never given Micro Image any business and have been skeptical (argueing engine longevity) of lightened pulleys in many old threads. The intake I own (which is powder coated black)was $50 and is crap... Any more theories you want to put out there?

And I support low prices. Sadly, high quality materials cost money...

[1NZYaris1]

Originally Posted by mikenacarato

YES...i have tried this kind of trash in the past....get some car smarts then you will understand

So what you are really saying is that 360 Tuners.com
sell cheap shitty product that they don't back up , Yeah
If that is the case i would not touch anything sold out of America.
Check there product range , same products as micro image .
how do you know this intake is not a reliable brand (they 360 tuners put there name to it) could it be a end of line product or maybe they have to much stock and need these sold to free up
cash flow.
and as far as my car smarts go just another assumption from you .

[mikenacarato]

ive tried and know people who have tried these kinds of things before. they may last 6 months to a year, but then your off buying another one because the pipe rusts or corrodes and/or the filter rusts/corrodes/falls apart. plus when im at a car event and someone asks me what kind of intake i have..i dont wanna say...oh its an ebay brand intake. i would be embarassed to say that, but thats just me and i demand quality. and for the record..buying thwe above intake is NOT the same as buying a new or used quality name brand off ebay. yes it may have come from ebay, but its not a no-name crap intake.

[mikenacarato]

360tuners is just an ebay company with a website. you dont have to take my word for it and by all means please dont. i just want my parts to last a while.

[PetersRedYaris]

I admit, of all the cheap ones, it looks like one of the best cheap ones...

[Spades]

*AHEM* uhhh...you guys are missing the point. half the time the aftermarket manufacturers have NO actual numbers or engineering to back up their intakes or exhaust. they are thrown together and stamped with a ricerboy logo everyone wants to buy.

with that being said...if one were to take the same diameter tube that the stock MAF sensor sits in on your stock yaris, and was to make said tube out of polished aluminum, and were to mount said MAF sensor in roughly the same location as the factory set up, and was to stick a cone air filter on the end of it a little bit away from the engine...you would have a intake that would look good and outperform most of the aftermarket intakes because some of them mount the MAF sensor in the wrong spot or in the wrong size of tubing.

seriously. you are paying $250+ in some cases for one dude to eyeball a piece of pipe and the factory set up...and then put 25 bucks worth of parts in a box and slap a sticker on it.

BTW....for sh-ts and giggles....go work on cars all day and marvel at some of the back asswards "engineering" on half of the cars on the road...i have seen vehicles where the flat rate time paid to a mechanic was over an hour to change the damn air filter...who put the air filter in that spot? why, one of your exalted engineers. sorry, but f--k them...I built my own.

[ChinoCharles]

Originally Posted by jaserhunter

i'm am sorry i even posted this. i was tryin to save some people some money (for the ones that dont have $200 for a CAI). i got a k&n drop-in to hold me over till i get money for the aFe or weapon-r one.

Precisely what I would have done. Good call.

About these intakes... listen. Since this site came around people have posted 100 versions of some intake that looks exactly like this. All are on Ebay, all probably come from China, designs are inconsistent and in the end nobody will really know how the intake performs. Someone might own the same thing, but instead of 360tuners or whatever this company is, they bought it from another power seller rebranded under some other name. The chances of anyone on this site even having experience with some of these intakes is slim. Its kind of funny really.

This is why I always suggest going name brand. I'm kind of hurt that someone knocked NST and Micro Image in this debate. NST doesn't even make intakes and both NST and Micro Image pays hundreds of dollars a year to provide us a service, so unless you're going to fork over a monthly payment don't go knocking our vendors unless you have a mighty fine reason. They keep us afloat.

I will always suggest a mainstream intake because they're tried and tested. We know what doesn't work... a few of them admittedly have some fitment issues reported and things like that. In a world where you get what you pay for, the only way you're getting a good intake for $50 is if you go used. I did... I have a Simota sitting in my room that cost me about that. Be patient and go that route. Keep your eyes on the For Sale forum. Forget these Ebay things.

[1NZYaris1]

Originally Posted by ChinoCharles

Precisely what I would have done. Good call.

About these intakes... listen. Since this site came around people have posted 100 versions of some intake that looks exactly like this. All are on Ebay, all probably come from China, designs are inconsistent and in the end nobody will really know how the intake performs. Someone might own the same thing, but instead of 360tuners or whatever this company is, they bought it from another power seller rebranded under some other name. The chances of anyone on this site even having experience with some of these intakes is slim. Its kind of funny really.

This is why I always suggest going name brand. I'm kind of hurt that someone knocked NST and Micro Image in this debate. NST doesn't even make intakes and both NST and Micro Image pays hundreds of dollars a year to provide us a service, so unless you're going to fork over a monthly payment don't go knocking our vendors unless you have a mighty fine reason. They keep us afloat.

I will always suggest a mainstream intake because they're tried and tested. We know what doesn't work... a few of them admittedly have some fitment issues reported and things like that. In a world where you get what you pay for, the only way you're getting a good intake for $50 is if you go used. I did... I have a Simota sitting in my room that cost me about that. Be patient and go that route. Keep your eyes on the For Sale forum. Forget these Ebay things.

I would say +1 on all the above ,
But you have also missed a piont people here saying the said intake is cheap,
that it might be but if anyone had bothered to check and read the add on 360tuners
web page the intake is reduce to $50. from $99. from which is about the norm
for this style of intake.(its not just the product you bag its the company selling it)
They also sell the same brand name products as Micro image and that is the one of the reasons i mentioned them and NST , 2ndly they where metioned
because they both have amazing customer service and fairly cheap parts .
Weather the are original or copy.
Reading through the last page i still cannot see how NST , or micro image
have in your words been knocked, and if they have been by me,
i here by appoligise to Garm and Mike ,no offence was meant (by me any way)

My whole piont was to stop the bagging of a product that they have not used or tried from 360tuners, as quality or lack of can only be determined once bought and used.

[thebarber]

ebay intake w/ k&n cone filter worked fine for 50,000km for me....

[33OH]

Originally Posted by 1NZYaris1

My whole piont was to stop the bagging of a product that they have not used or tried from 360tuners, as quality or lack of can only be determined once bought and used.

Or they could actually care and test their products, post reviews, dyno sheets, etc. like all reputable manufacturers.

And I think it's kind of silly that I'm getting slammed in this topic everytime I post. Every post I have stated that "I personally buy" or "I would buy" a brand name product. Sorry that it offends you so much.

[thebarber]

ive got to admit that aem, fujita and injen put more time and money into engineering and whatnot

but in a lot of ways the ebay knock-offs are jsut as good....who's intakes do you think they copy? why do you think it takes an extra year or two to get the knock-offs on the market?

i did the R&D for cosmo racing intake. i measured the stock air pipe diameter, told them what it was and they ripped off a short ram pipe of the same diameter with a toyota MAF mount on it and an inlet for the crank vent pipe....

might not be the most beautiful piece of intake out there, but hey, it works

[Spades]

Originally Posted by ryank

Or they could actually care and test their products, post reviews, dyno sheets, etc. like all reputable manufacturers.

And I think it's kind of silly that I'm getting slammed in this topic everytime I post. Every post I have stated that "I personally buy" or "I would buy" a brand name product. Sorry that it offends you so much.

LOL...most of the companies people consider reputable do not post reviews or dyno sheets...and if they do, alot of the time numbers are made up. look, if someone purchases a intake, installs it perfectly with no problems, check engine lights, or hp loss, and puts it on a dyno, and actually GAINED the 5+ wheel HP alot of the companies claim...congrats to you. you just paid 250 bucks to get what i have on my car...and i paid 25 bucks in materials.

but hey, it does take people that BELIVE in the manufacturers and their engineers...cause if they didnt, the products wouldnt exist...kinda like santa claus and Christmas, right? mass commerce based of of fairy dust and pixie farts...gotta love it.

[mikenacarato]

no....lol at the people on here who dont want to pay for quality parts but OMG so friggin concerned with what the UOA charts say....hypocrits