Artsifrtsi
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So right on the money!As someone who has tuned their own vehicle and done tons of mods (not on a pentastar), the bolt on additions (intake, exhaust, etc) have minimal to no impact without calibrating the fuel mapping. In some cases it can make it worse because the extra air flow that in theory sounds great, skews the fuel trims and the ECU is constantly trying to fuck around trying to dial it back in to what the mapping says it should be. Depending on how big the change is in flow, it could be outside of what it can compensate for at which point you would be doing more harm than good.
All that being said, you're talking about a naturally aspirated engine so getting a whole new intake will give you little to no gains. If you want to blow a couple hundred bucks to gain efficiency, get yourself HP tuners and dial in your fuel maps to be exact rather than wasting money on an intake that will potentially make it worse. Just make sure you educate yourself on how to do it properly so you don't mess it up. Once you're there, then go ahead and get yourself an intake that you can actually tune the changes for and realize efficiency/power gains.
On a money savings perspective, if you want to save yourself money, you can get a washable intake filter and that 50 bucks you spend now will save you from having to replace the intake filter every 6 months for 10-15 bucks each time.
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