Man your engine bay is dirty. You’re gonna have to clean that filter off really often if you always drive in muddy, splashy locations. That’s one benefit to keeping the stock air box: shields your filter from debris.
It looks awesome! And it sounds even more awesome 🤤🤤🤤. Best decision I’ve made with the CX-50 was getting a CorkSport Turbo amplifier or as the rest of the world calls it: short ram air intake 😂. Looking forward to seeing the other awesome products y’all make for the 50 in the future!
@@samthecarguy1143 I'm totally floored by the comment man. Thanks for sharing!!! If you're so inclined to share your thoughts we would appreciate a review of the SRI.
Yeah, I know exactly when it got that dirty. I was going through some muddy water puddles with friends and making a huge mess. This was the first time I had seen under the hood since doing that. Definitely won’t be doing that again. The bright side though is these filters are able to be cleaned and reused a few times if I remember correctly
I'm not a mechanic- so WHAT Is that and what exactly does it DO ? How much of an "improvement" is it for real?? I love to hear about anything that can make a car BETTER than it was...
I’ll do my best to give a decent detailed description: What it is: it’s an aftermarket air intake for the engine. What does it do: in general, an air intake is piping that allows air to go into the engine. Gasoline powered Internal combustion engines need 3 things to operate: 1: air 2: fuel 3: spark. The air and fuel compress inside of the engine in cylinders with the use of a piston. This aftermarket air intake has more opening and allows more air to go into the combustion chamber but to see any signify differences would require updating the car’s engine computer to account for added air. My CX-50 is turbocharged, which means that it has this little rounded case with a small fan built into it that spins by passing the exhausted gasses over a turbine connected to it. What this does is as the exhaust gasses pass through the device and spin the fan, the fan pulls in more air and forces it into the engine. This is significant because more air+more fuel=more power. Turbos because they suck in air make a whooshing sound as you hit the gas, the more you push the gas pedal, the more air is allowed into the engine which pushes more over the turbine causing it to suck in even more air making more and louder turbo noise. On this particular turbo set up, when let off the gas pedal, the excess air that was brought into the turbo that is no longer needed is released through a pressure release valve. When it dumps the air out it makes a fun SPSHHHHHHHH sound. So with this, it makes driving it more fun with the added turbo noises and also can give you somewhere between a 3-10hp boost depending on what you do. It also allows for an increase in torque if I remember correctly as well. Hope I was able to answer your questions. Feel free to ask me anything else you’d like to know about it or the car in general, love getting to share the knowledge and information when I can! 🤙🏼
Still doing awesome! Had it cleaned during one of my last oil changes, but the car is still running beautifully, and the sound is still awesome and makes me smile
You’ll have to verify that, but it is something that alters the initial design of the intake system, so there’s a chance it could affect the engine/drivetrain warranty. Personally, I decided I trust Mazda reliability as well as CorkSport enough to risk it. I’m at almost 40k miles with 0 issues from the car as of this comment.
Any aftermarket part always has a potential to void a warranty, but with that being said, the 2.5L Skyactiv engine has proven itself to be reliable. It’s been in every mazda since 2016. So for that reason I wasn’t too worried about the engine having some kind of issue. This particular one is on a turbo model, but they make one for the naturally aspirated skyactiv engine. Why do: these can bump the hp and torque up a little, plus it makes the turbo louder, which I like and was the main reason I got it.
