@@malboro555 20hp is a lot bud. Maybe if he also removed the mufflers and tuned it properly. Headers only have me 12hp at the wheels without a tune and mine is a 5L Supercharged V8. Muffler Delete would pose more of a restriction on this car?? TBH I didn't watch the whole video because the guys an idiot and there's so many erroraneous statements in it
@@canneddinners6059 cuz thats not an 01. its a 04-05, two redesigns after the 01. credibility is out the window if you cant even correctly tell people what care it is
Jimmy, the emissivity of black paint > silver paint. That's why factory heat exchangers a.k.a intercoolers are made from aluminum and left in their natural colours. The lighter colour body absorbs less heat than darker colours.
Nah man, this is probs the only true fact of the video. I didn't watch the whole thing because the guy is a stupid uneducated idiot. However intake temps do make a massive difference to forced induction cars. (If they have been dyno tuned properly) For your info, look up "Forced Induction Interchillers" I've got one on my car and it makes 70hp difference with it on and off. Mine is a supercharged 5L V8 though.
Absolutely can make more than 4hp - with a tune to take advantage of three intercooler you could easily be looking at 30 to 40. The lag increase isn't really that noticeable to he honest but yeah, there are absolutely better options than going straight to a front mount.
@@jazzmangocats lag can be fixed by rotating intake - way shorter tubes. And yes, definitely a tune to accommodate everything. Big no no on that filter. Just drop a K&N in the stock airbox and you're better off. Safe travels, everyone!
This is definitely not an 01 anywhere in the world. 01 would be a bugeye, except for in the US where it'd still be the GC body style, and not turbocharged.
Even though it's 2022, the time of technology, practicality and marketers, and this car is still popular and it's cool in all its sports parameters. Nice car. Thank you.
3 grand, lucky to get a really clean wrx turbo for under 7k. Best thing you can do with them is keep them 100% original like mine.Keep it a good few years and you will get your money back all day long
This wrx will not self adjust for the cooler charge temperature without a map & cone filter is going to loose you power. To make more power from blob wrx, ditch the up-pipe cat, replace the whole exhaust with 3" turbo back sportcat/decat, decent panel filter.. dyno remap with someone reputable & run the car on proper fuel aka shell vpower. This should see 280/290bhp. If this is not enough, you need the sti turbo or something of the shelf & probs then look at intercooler but at this point your pushing your luck with the 5 speed.
yeah agreed.. there's a reason the IC on the Ej is mounted there, but people insist on listening to these muppets rather than the people who designed and built it
Ill ask this here cause it kinda fits my question. I preferably want to buy a 4WD as a first car but I've really no clue, if a WRX or STI would go well fresh out the gate. The non turbos seem logical, although I want to be like a project aka look the part but until the insurance eases, then go for performance. Practically, I think buy that point it'll be cheaper or less effort just to buy WRX at that point.
I bet it lost power without a tune, in fact I garuntee it, plus the stock intercooler is good for much more power then stock, and going to a cone filter isn't going to do much, now it's just sucking in hot air, total clowns
@@dallasmellsop5488 yep if they had done a larger top mount intercooler it would have seen gains, and if they had just purchased a true CAI they would have seen some more gains. I purchased an aem intake and I believe the crank hp gain was +40 with a tune.
Ringer alert. Didn't make blob eye in 2001 that's a bugeye with a front end change even the radiator is wrong for a 2001 model upto 03 didn't have the cap on the radiator only had the one on header tank near turbo. Don't ever do this work without remapping you won't get no gain without correct afr if anything you'll make it slower from bad fueling and increased lag. Air filter pod = lean, front mount = lean and then people wonder why subaru are considered fragile.
In theory, the cooler air will outweigh the possible turbo lag caused by more/longer air travel. Cooler air will also allow higher boost, cooler air contains more oxygen, allowing the engine to burn more fuel creating more power. But... Without decent remapping the ECU's won't allow boost exceeding the set parameters in the programming, and definitely will not allow more fuel into the engine. With a proper remap this might work fine, but like this? Nope.
@@hybridShinx no it's not an increase in power, this guy means that the mods they did were shit, cos they were, an intercooler with no tune won't add power, pair that with a filter that now sucks in lost air, it drives worse and probaly LOST power. Plus, the stock intercooler is good for much more power, this really was an embarrassing video, espically when it blows up because it's a subaru with no tune
This video is full of old wives tales. Black doesn't work like you think it does with heat, and the burble sound is more about the uneven exhaust header lengths. The bigger intercooler is likely to help, but 40hp is a massive wild claim without tuning and bigger turbo. Without other mods an upgraded top cooler would probably be a better buy
The EJ engines need a new ecu map when the airfilter is changed to an open sportfilter. The same thing if the downpipe, headers, turbo or downpipe is changed.
@@langraman8756 you should make a new maping because when you are changing the airfilter and and the filterbox the map sensor is not working correct on low rpm .
My old impreza had 158k miles when I sold it never broke down once. Never had the engine messed with or nothing like that.Keep them 100% original is the secret. You see so many that have had engine rebuild ect, leave them alone and they will run for ever
Say it with me. "Heat shield and a tune." That argument about the hot engine bay for the intercooler is way more important for the intake. Heat soak is real and a small shield can work wonders. An enclosure is better. Also, no tune is a terrible idea.
It's no wonder people blow their car's if this is the kind of example they follow, so much misinformation and serious lack of knowledge, the presenter might have the gift of talking the talk but he stumbles when trying to do the walk. Doing it like this loses power and makes for dangerous lean running situations when just a straight forward remap will net more gains than slapping tut on it! Without changing the turbo/injectors/fuel pump and remap there are absolutely no gains from doing this just a butt load of losses/risk.
So after you remove the blow off valve from the car without replace it (because in the wrx it is fitted on the intercooler...,-) how many miles you need to blow your turbocharger????
Complete BS. I bet this made almost no difference to the BHP. These ‘cold’ air intakes usually decrease BHP in most dyno tests that I’ve seen. On these cars, there’s an air scoop just above the grill so I seriously doubt whether this cone filter helps. Regarding the front mounted IC, a useful mod but needs to be combined with a remap, up rated fuel pump and injectors. And preferably a revised exhaust system.
No it doesn't. You don't need an uprated fuel system for an intercooler lol And yes a cone filter may slightly reduce bhp on an unmodified engine in a rolling road due to heat soak, but that doesn't apply to a car moving through the air.
sirjakethebrit What I’m saying is that a FMI on its own will produce little extra power in this car. Real gains are predominantly made from increased boost which should be done correctly with a remap. Most tuners would also recommend an up rated fuel pump and bigger injectors for modest boost increases especially on a regular WRX (which this seems to be).
I wish wrx's were 3000$ you'll be lucky to find one 9k, let alone the sti you'll be looking around 18k if you're lucky. Also love how he says the wrong year
@6m30s: "...cooling the air ENTERING the turbo..." Intercoolers are supposed to be installed AFTER the turbo, so they make no difference to the air entering the turbo. The only thing you've done to the air entering the turbo is to fit the conical air filter, a move that often results in slightly higher air temperatures into the turbo as the OEM solution to air filtering often includes cold air inlets.
Unfortunately you don't know as much as you think you do. turbocharger can be intake side or (as per most vehicles) exhaust side of the engine. It is often on the exhaust manifold.
@@tracktimevideos5164 Your attempted rebuttal makes little sense. My comment included the quoted phrase about the function of the intercooler where it was incorrectly stated that the intercooler is for, "...cooling the air ENTERING the turbo...". This is in reference to a system point of view, i.e. where the air flows. It has absolutely nothing to do with the physical mounting point of the turbos themselves. Compressing air in the turbo increases the temperature, followed by an intercooler for the air EXITING the turbo. Nobody installs an intercooler before the turbo as that would make no sense. Can you now see that your comment is completely off the mark? Please focus your attention on the quoted phrase that can be found in the video at the time stamp that I also referenced. I'm pointing to an error where the narrator misspoke. Your rebuttal to my comment is incorrect. "Unfortunately you don't know as much about the English language as you think you do...", LOL.
@@tracktimevideos5164 Of course it's on the exhaust manifold! The exhaust gasses spools up the turbo, which in turn forces compressed air into the engine. And compressed air gets hot! Hence the intercooler, cooling the compressed and hot air before it enters the intake manifold.
Only the uk spec Impreza’s had unequal headers and the Japanese spec had equal length headers and the Japanese spec had better turbochargers and the intercooler was Water cooled
The FMIC has covered up half the radiator lmao Some idiots mainstream media puts out. Low standards. Hot air intake filter. lag introduced with FMIC lol
The color black dose not dissipate heat better. The type of metal would actually have to do with that part and actually black is a heat soak put out some thing yellow in the sun next to some thing black that is the same material and the black item will be hotter when measuring the surface heat.
Correct, but also wrong. Black coating don't dissipate the heat as such. It absorbs the heat, in theory it absorbs heat from the intercooler core. But in reality? Nah.
How the hell does a FMIC give you 40bhp...... absolute nonsense 😂 To start with...... any change to the intercooler setup would require remapping. Just chucking a FMIC on is not gonna get you that kind of power..... all you will get is lots of lag 🙈 The stock FMIC on a WRX isn't great but still OK until you are pushing 300+ bhp. Even at that, upgrade to the STI top mount intercooler, underboonet plastics and bonnet scoop. A much better upgrade unless you are planning 400+ bhp. And don't even get me started on that cone filter 😂
Don’t think 40hp. Pod filters are proven to decrease hp. Sock air box is rated to 300hp all you doing is letting the motor breath hot air. As for front mount I wouldn’t be boosting until you have a tune. Won’t see noticeable gains until then.
Possibly the worst 'how to' video I've seen in years - expected from fifth gear. Why? Pick one from below: - Even novices know that the exhaust rumble is created by an unequal length exhaust manifold, not the boxer layout - installing a front mount intercooler without a tune just introduces considerable turbo lag and causes the engine to run rich - on one hand you talk about the merit of cooler air but then proceed to replace the airbox with a mushroom filter picking up hot air inside the engine bay Fifth gear is seriously amateur and embarrassing.
