Anyone else have this setup? I had mine on temporarily (it's a friend's) but it's made for a 3" pipe while the Injen is 2.5". It sounds deeper and more agressive sounding than with the Injen filter (which is crap, IMO). Where can I get a Ractive filter made for 2.5" piping, or where could I get a small adapter to make it 3"?

 

off topic but is your injen cai stil giving u problems ?

 

The heat shield ractive intake is supposed to direct air into the intake {So says ractive} so it would also be true for water. I would be cautious and get a bypass.

 

Not as much as before. The jerking has died down for some reason...or it may be because I've learned to avoid it by not pressing on the throttle ever so lightly.

 

ok... i'm not trying to be a dick.. or a smart *** here. but... you really want to know how to avoid getting water in there? don't drive through anything questionable. pull over, sit for a minute, listen to the radio, read a book, read your newest edition of superstreet or turbo magazine. it's called "common-sense." i've had my injen on in floods, and never once sucked water up into the pipe, although i was scared shitless... first thing i did when i got home was pull the MAF to see if there was water up there around the bend. and nothing. don't drive through it if you don't think you can make it. bypass = robbing power imho. if the water is high enough to get on the filter and drown it, what makes you think it's not high enough to not get in the engine bay by splashing up, and getting right on that nice little bypass vavle that's opening up because you're filter is submerged?

and Negatize... you can still hear your intake? ;D my exhaust drowns out all sounds of it now.

 

Agreed.

Yeah I can hear my intake pretty well..I still have the stock exhaust. Considering the MazdaSpeed or Racing Beat exhaust still but have other things I want first (sway bars, springs)

 

i didnt know they made a racing beat exhaust for our 1.6l pros? or will the one for the lx/es 2.0 be a direct bolt on?

 

I always assumed it was, I didn't think they changed anything exhaust wise throughout the model years..

 

well ihope they are the same too but if they are i wonder what kind of gains hp we would get?

 

where can i get a heat shield for my ractive short ram intake?...i've been looking...do you have to custom make them?

 

You can buy the heat shields themselves off eBay. Only problem is the opening is 3". I don't know about the Ractive intake, but the Injen intake is 2.5". If you clamp the **** out of it, it will fit, but I wouldn't want something like that as a permanent solution.