Pod With Hiflow Turbo

[ducki]

i just tried on a friend's hks pod filter on my car.. usually have stock air box with apexi panel filter..

with the hiflow turbo.. i can hear the turbo very loud when its spooling up.. but as soon as i put the pod on.. i can barely hear my turbo at all

like.. i can't even hear the pod suction noise.. all i can hear is my exhaust and nothing else..

the pod is very loud on my friend's r34 with his stock turbo so we didn't understand why at all..

any opinions on this ??

[Spunky Munky]

That's weird.... very weird... as I got a Apexi Pod on my car and you can hear the engine much more louder with the BOV spooling even more aggressively... did you plug the Pod straight into your air meter without any thing in between? With the Pod, it sounds awesome.... absolutely breath-taking... check your hoses and wires also...

[ducki]

yea i did.. like i said.. we were also confused.. like i can hear my turbo way louder with the stock airbox than the pod..

but when we put the pod back on to friend's car.. its so loud?

so kinda confused and don't know what's going on there

[Spunky Munky]

yea i did.. like i said.. we were also confused.. like i can hear my turbo way louder with the stock airbox than the pod..

but when we put the pod back on to friend's car.. its so loud?

so kinda confused and don't know what's going on there

After posting my previous response to you, I went out to my car and lifted up the engine bay to have a look for ya...

You gotta check how you have bolted on the Pod... there's actually 2 ways you can do this...

1. Bolt the pod directly (with an adaptor of course) to your airflow meter.

2. Drill a whole through your intercooler and pipe the pod to that.

The second way, is a no no... tell me how your pod looks like... take a picture of your engine bay and I will see if I can help you further. We'll talk again soon... btw, what's the brand of your Pod again... oh 1 more thing, make sure there are no wholes or air-exit gaps in your pod... this can be bad for your engine too.

[ducki]

it was put on as an experiment.. like me and my friend just thought.. how will my car sound if i have his pod on..

its an HKS pod with adapter bolted directly to the afm... secured by 4 bolts... it was put in the same way as he had on his car.. so i am sure there's no mistakes there.

well.. when we put it back into his car.. it was all fine and loud... on his but not mine. car has the stock airbox back on now, i am fine with the stock airbox really.. i can hear my turbo spooling loud enough in cabin .. don't really want to through the hassle of getting the pod to make the sound. was just curious as to why it didn't make that sound.. just got in my head and thought something might be wrong with my car or something.

[Sambo33]

do u have a ball bearing hi-flow or plain bearing?? ball bearing turbos make more noise than a plain bearing one.

[ducki]

well its a slide hiflow.. so i guess its a journal bearing then...

[Trust33]

After posting my previous response to you, I went out to my car and lifted up the engine bay to have a look for ya...

You gotta check how you have bolted on the Pod... there's actually 2 ways you can do this...

1. Bolt the pod directly (with an adaptor of course) to your airflow meter.

2. Drill a whole through your intercooler and pipe the pod to that.

The second way, is a no no... tell me how your pod looks like... take a picture of your engine bay and I will see if I can help you further. We'll talk again soon... btw, what's the brand of your Pod again... oh 1 more thing, make sure there are no wholes or air-exit gaps in your pod... this can be bad for your engine too.

Do u actually know someone who has done number 2? excuse the pun :P.

Do you mean. Bolt the pod to the pipe. Or actually what you have written there.

[Spunky Munky]

Do u actually know someone who has done number 2? excuse the pun .

Do you mean. Bolt the pod to the pipe. Or actually what you have written there.

Bolt it to the pipe, I meant. and yeah, seen people do this.