Today I had a Steeda Timing Adjuster and an Anderson Powerpipe Intake installed along with a K&N air filter. The Anderson pipe is supposedly one of the best becuase it is ceramic coated and doesnt have any real "restrictive" bends. I don't know why they call it a powerpipe since its actually a cold air intake, but whatever. 
I told the guy to set the t/a at 14 degrees, but he said he didn't feel comfortable setting it past 13, so we set it at that.
Impressions:
Partial Throttle Power - I noticed a little bit more snap in initial throttle response around ~2200rpm, but nothing to write home about. Not enough to put a smile on my face, but enough to be noticeable.
Intake Sound - I expected the engine to have a deeper, throatier, suction type sound with the addition of this intake, but to my surprise it sounds EXACTLY the same as it did with the stock intake. Kind of a bummer.
WOT: - I kept my ears peeled for detonation the first few WOT's, and heard none. Power wise, its hard to tell if there has been an increase in power. I can feel it most as im switching gears, it has a bit more snap to it. I am kind of disappointed, though.
On the way home from the gym tonight I took the highway to see how it felt there. I dropped it into 3rd @65mph and took off. It was feeling strong, but again very hard to tell by "butt dyno" the power increase over stock. Heres the weird part....As I approached ~90mph in 4th, I shut it down by putting it in neutral like usual and braking. I noticed the tach dropped to ~0rpm, shot back up to 1000rpm, dropped back to 0rpm, shot up to 1000rpm, then just died on me. What gives? I had to pull into the median and thankfully the car restarted on me. My check engine light has not come on since the install. My guesses were that the pipe got disconnected somewhere, or that a hose slipped off, but if that were the case the car wouldn't start back up like a charm. So my only guess left is that all the extra air flow sent the MAF into a panic and it just shut down the car?
I plan on eventually setting the T/A to 14 degrees. I was shooting for 290rwhp, but I don't know if thats gonna happen anymore. I think I may be calling it quits on the power mods after this, becuase nothing is going to give me the SOTP feeling I want besides a blower or nitrous, and I can't afford a blower and don't want to run nitrous. I had initially thought that becuase these mods were installed in combination, that along with my x-pipe, they would all work together and I would actually feel the power increase. Maybe the ECU needs to adjust to the extra air flow?
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
I told the guy to set the t/a at 14 degrees, but he said he didn't feel comfortable setting it past 13, so we set it at that.
Impressions:
Partial Throttle Power - I noticed a little bit more snap in initial throttle response around ~2200rpm, but nothing to write home about. Not enough to put a smile on my face, but enough to be noticeable.
Intake Sound - I expected the engine to have a deeper, throatier, suction type sound with the addition of this intake, but to my surprise it sounds EXACTLY the same as it did with the stock intake. Kind of a bummer.
WOT: - I kept my ears peeled for detonation the first few WOT's, and heard none. Power wise, its hard to tell if there has been an increase in power. I can feel it most as im switching gears, it has a bit more snap to it. I am kind of disappointed, though.
On the way home from the gym tonight I took the highway to see how it felt there. I dropped it into 3rd @65mph and took off. It was feeling strong, but again very hard to tell by "butt dyno" the power increase over stock. Heres the weird part....As I approached ~90mph in 4th, I shut it down by putting it in neutral like usual and braking. I noticed the tach dropped to ~0rpm, shot back up to 1000rpm, dropped back to 0rpm, shot up to 1000rpm, then just died on me. What gives? I had to pull into the median and thankfully the car restarted on me. My check engine light has not come on since the install. My guesses were that the pipe got disconnected somewhere, or that a hose slipped off, but if that were the case the car wouldn't start back up like a charm. So my only guess left is that all the extra air flow sent the MAF into a panic and it just shut down the car?
I plan on eventually setting the T/A to 14 degrees. I was shooting for 290rwhp, but I don't know if thats gonna happen anymore. I think I may be calling it quits on the power mods after this, becuase nothing is going to give me the SOTP feeling I want besides a blower or nitrous, and I can't afford a blower and don't want to run nitrous. I had initially thought that becuase these mods were installed in combination, that along with my x-pipe, they would all work together and I would actually feel the power increase. Maybe the ECU needs to adjust to the extra air flow?
Any help would be greatly appriciated.
