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I got a 32gtr making just over 300kw at all the treads. Still runing the stardard airbox atm, but want more intake noise coming from my engine bay, atm u cant hear my stock bov's at all and hardly here my turbos spool up, once on full boost my kakimoto kills any other sounds within 50 metre radius haha. Also planing on pulling the engine out next year sometime and getting it forged or poss Stroked and some new snails bolted on the side of it, so i wont something that i dont have to change, id rather the arc airbox becasue it looks real tidy in the bay, anyone one eles runing the arc box? everyone i see just has the same old pods,

Also would the pods and a cai flow more air than the arc box with a cai??

thanks all

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I went from M's pods to ARC air box and was very happy. Noticed slightly better throttle response.

Power is 387 rwhp on stock size turbos

Noise is not to loud but you do hear it, its not as loud as pods though, can definitely hear the stock bov's

i thought of doing an arc air box in my s14 but idk how it will work with my manifold i am interested in this though, i hear air box is far supperior to pod

i thought of doing an arc air box in my s14 but idk how it will work with my manifold i am interested in this though, i hear air box is far supperior to pod

Do you get more flow through the ARC or through say a K&N pod ?

Do you get more flow through the ARC or through say a K&N pod ?

It's not so much the flow its relative to the air density going through your intake. The airbox separates the hotter engine bay air and allows the cooler air to direct away from heat soak.

There is no reason why you cannot just make your own airbox and have a pod in there for simplicity.

ARC air box = $$$

Just get some sheet metal bent up and whack a filter in there.

i like the look of the ARC air box. makes the engine bay look real tidy. Dose it have 2 filters or just one on the top??

Also what do u mean by making another feed to my factory airbox??

the arc airbox gets it's air from the same place as the pods would. it just has filters stuck to the outside of the box. it is nicely made and does have nice little alloy bellmouths in there but I don't think it has any advantage over a pair of pods. and a pair of pods with a heat seperator so they can only draw cool air from behind the headlight I would say is better than the arc box.

also, the arc box is very heavy, and that weight is right up the front of the car and quite high. i used to have one. I now am back to apexi pods and happy with that. also, if you want the noise, you need the pods.

ok say if i went pods, what u guys buy for the pod setup besides 2 pod filters. i noticed on JustJap they got a Apexi power intake kit but its something stupidly priced 600-800 somehting like that. Im cool with payin that kinda money for the arc box, because its got abit to it. but the for 2 pod fliters and what looks like 2 elboe pipe bends its abit much dont u think?

cheers for everyones help so far

I went from M's pods to ARC air box and was very happy. Noticed slightly better throttle response.

Power is 387 rwhp on stock size turbos

Noise is not to loud but you do hear it, its not as loud as pods though, can definitely hear the stock bov's

EXACT same as me bud. Ditched the M's pods for the ARC box, never looked back

ARC air box = $$$

Just get some sheet metal bent up and whack a filter in there.

Yea i was thinking of doing this my self , making up my own box for the pod filter wouldnt be to hard just make a template and bend some sheet metal . its probably better than having the pod just sitting there sucking up all that hot air . also if you done it rite it would look awsome .

the arc airbox gets it's air from the same place as the pods would. it just has filters stuck to the outside of the box. it is nicely made and does have nice little alloy bellmouths in there but I don't think it has any advantage over a pair of pods. and a pair of pods with a heat seperator so they can only draw cool air from behind the headlight I would say is better than the arc box.

also, the arc box is very heavy, and that weight is right up the front of the car and quite high. i used to have one. I now am back to apexi pods and happy with that. also, if you want the noise, you need the pods.

Dont remember it being very heavy at all... actually id say it was lighter then the M's pods and adaptors that were on the car before

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