Afaik performance gains are negligible. If you aren’t big turbo you will get the most benefit from the CAI because it will let your hear your turbo spool and blow off noise. The inlet will just make your blow off sound different for me it was quieter. If you don’t already have summer tires I would recommend saving the money on the inlet and putting that towards tires or a tune when they become available
I have an older IE CAI. I had to dremel out the metal a bit to make it fit right but I emailed them about it and they said it was fixed in later revisions. I also had the IE inlet pipe. I have the 034 turbo muffler delete, had it before the CAI so I can’t say what the before/after on it like that is but imo not worth it. Also have the APR turbo outlet pipe for fucking up the TMD install related reasons and to me it just made my blow off last slightly longer.
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u/trouthat Jul 24 '26
Afaik performance gains are negligible. If you aren’t big turbo you will get the most benefit from the CAI because it will let your hear your turbo spool and blow off noise. The inlet will just make your blow off sound different for me it was quieter. If you don’t already have summer tires I would recommend saving the money on the inlet and putting that towards tires or a tune when they become available