What is this?, 7A-FE (99' Euro) engine Options

[Illyont]

What is this little "box" on my intake? I can only imagine it's some sort of silencer or something.. To keep the sound from the intake down.. Then again, I'm mechanicly impaired (spelling?) and don't know crap about engines.

[Galcobar]

The 5SFE actually has two resonators, a large one in the fender and a small kidney-shaped on near the air filter box.

One of the reasons people put on short-rams is to get noise -- it doesn't increase performance on our engines, since the stock CAI aren't that badly designed. Pulling off a resonator will smooth airflow but increase noise.

[Illyont]

The 5SFE actually has two resonators, a large one in the fender and a small kidney-shaped on near the air filter box.

One of the reasons people put on short-rams is to get noise -- it doesn't increase performance on our engines, since the stock CAI aren't that badly designed. Pulling off a resonator will smooth airflow but increase noise.
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One guy on this Corolla board was claiming 8-10 hp gain from removing that "box".. On a stock car (89'-ish Corolla 1.6 litre).. I was shouting BS but he just wouldn't listen. He even claimed that he had dyno sheets as proof. Haven't seen them yet though.

[easternpiro1]

The 5SFE actually has two resonators, a large one in the fender and a small kidney-shaped on near the air filter box.

One of the reasons people put on short-rams is to get noise -- it doesn't increase performance on our engines, since the stock CAI aren't that badly designed. Pulling off a resonator will smooth airflow but increase noise.
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One guy on this Corolla board was claiming 8-10 hp gain from removing that "box".. On a stock car (89'-ish Corolla 1.6 litre).. I was shouting BS but he just wouldn't listen. He even claimed that he had dyno sheets as proof. Haven't seen them yet though.
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continue to shout BS cause i can smell it WAY OVER here in north carolina!

[Illyont]

The 5SFE actually has two resonators, a large one in the fender and a small kidney-shaped on near the air filter box.

One of the reasons people put on short-rams is to get noise -- it doesn't increase performance on our engines, since the stock CAI aren't that badly designed. Pulling off a resonator will smooth airflow but increase noise.
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One guy on this Corolla board was claiming 8-10 hp gain from removing that "box".. On a stock car (89'-ish Corolla 1.6 litre).. I was shouting BS but he just wouldn't listen. He even claimed that he had dyno sheets as proof. Haven't seen them yet though.
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continue to shout BS cause i can smell it WAY OVER here in north carolina!
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Okey, so this guy has replied again.. And this time he is cursing and litteraly pissed off.. He thinks I'm ruining his car thread....

I asked for proof, since he said he have so many, and he gave me a link to a thread for a car with full new exhaust, cai and some few other minor mods (and this removal of silencer in intake mod). The car got dynoed from 60 kilowatts -> 73.5 kilowatts with those mods. The link for dyno sheet wasn't working though.

I'm a moderator at that forum, and the guy is all pissed at me now because I'm a mod, and ruining for him etc.. I really haven't said anything or done anything, so I asked him nicely to tell me what I have done/said that is wrong, and to give me some proof. Can't wait to see his next response.

Can someone really quick give me the formula to convert kw into hk? I think it's 1.3 or something.. 1 kw = 1.3 hk or something like that. In that case, this dude have gotten, or claims to have gotten a 16 hk gain from new header, downpipe, free flow cat, and cat back exhaust + new K/N filter and removal of silencer, right?

And yet this dude on the forum trying to use this as proof say he can get 8-10 (that is more than 50% of the other dudes improvement in performance) from only one (and to me, looks like the least important) mod of those listed..

16 hk gain (8-10 from removing silencer in intake)
and 6-8 hk gain from new header, downpipe, new cat and a cat-back exhaust, and K/N filter.

Now guys, please.. Tell me I'm wrong, but this bloke sounds pretty dumb to me. And I'm no mechanic either