AU Carbonio vs US Carbonio intake

[dru]

I had a look at the forge intake but it looks like an ugly setup, to me anyway. I know it's in the engine bay but it's just untidy. BSH I saw a second hand one on here for sale last week Dave, maybe look for that - but I can't remember if it was suited to a mk6 or mk5 golf.

There are a few out there. I quite like the VF Engineering one (below). The piping is all one piece but the only downside is apparently it doesn't seal against the bonnet well and draws in hot air?



Then again, that is similar to the BSH TSI Intake

[Corey_R]

The BSH "box" is a much better attempt to seal the unit than the VF. Whilst the VF does seal to the bonnet, both sides and the bottom are open! Both are obviously far inferior in their sealing than the Carbonio.

[Greg Roles]

The difference between a totally sealed to the exterior airbox, and a small 1cm gap is quite noticable, especially after idling at the lights for 2 mins. Any gaps that let in hot engine bay air are going to dull the initial response quite noticably. I had a phenoic modshack pod, closed off at the front except for the exact hole from the outside, but still had small 1cm or less gaps. When I built a fully enclosed and sealed front on the modshack, the response, especially in traffic was amazing.

In my opinion ANY box that doesn't totally seal to the exterior is going to be WORSE than stock in traffic.

[Corey_R]

Yeah, and beyond the "performance" discussion, there is also the legal/roadworthy discussion. It's ok to "seal against the bonnet", but intakes like the VF obviously make no attempt to even seal to the sides and bottom to anything. It'd rather pay an additional $100 over it's current price for them to have a variety of airboxes for the different models.

Unfortunately when it comes to Golf's, that pretty much just leaves APR/Carbonio - and they don't have a "full intake" for the Golf R yet

[Fireside]

just stage 1.