veeeery nice--it's on my wish list now. lol.

 

Anyone know about how thick the fiberglass is or how many layers it is? I really like this intake!

 

LOL! That is damn funny. Heating the intake charge is cooling your CAI box. Is that what you are saying? Just remove the enclosure entirely, then it won't even heat sink at idle.

 

How long of a turn around are we looking at for custom painted jobs?

 

Is the top part of the box, in back towards the firewall, vented to the engine bay? Kinda looks like they've got a louver thing going.

Nice looking piece.

 

...what?...

 

Well my friends, I took the plunge!

Placed my order today! One of my friends had his delivered today and like any good Mini owner he ran home from work and installed it immediately!

He then proceeded to drop by my work and show it off. Very very good looking and sounding intake

I can't wait until mine arrives! Thanks for bringing these to our attention LB!

Oh! Does anyone have a link where I can buy a red Sampco hose from? Thanks, I can't seem to find one on there site for the mini thats not an Alta

 

call Chad at Detroit Tuned. He has them on his site.

 

Awesome! Thanks for the direction

 

Congrats? Did Ryan get one? What color did you get? I was about to order mine last night but I am battling over what color to get it done. I am thinking about doing Electric Blue to match the car but its such a tough decision!

 

Dude, Ryan and I both bought Red! I think you should go with what color you want for sure. But BLUE to be different

How many Red Voltage intakes could we possibly have in the club

 

It was between red, electric blue, or black. Now it's between electric blue and black. I gotta see this thing to make sure I wanna order it. Let me know when you get it...

 

I will for sure ! Did you get your Bilstiens?

 

I have it in Electric Blue and it looks great. I'll try to snap a pic or two tomorrow for you.

 

He just got them off and are on their way Are you done with your surgery? (Thread hijack.)

Please do! That would be much appreciated!

 

Surgery went good man and thanks for asking I'll be back under cars in no time

 

I do love this piece! Very happy with the purchase. I talked to one of our local Mini techs and he said that ifi it were black he wouldn't have even noticed that it was different. I have some pics of mine installed up on www.whineandburble.com, check them out.

 

Where are them pics?

 

Here a couple of pics. Sorry it took a while to get them.

 

Man, that is friggin HOT.

 

Agreed! I'm sold on the color match for the Electric Blue! Thanks shooler! I think we need some full car pics of your car. I can see some Orciari scoops there...

 

Anyone know if using the Alta intake tube would be detrimental to the performance of the Voltage in any way, or would it be preferred over using the OEM? I realize many people are attracted to the OEM look and the OEM tube would be apart of that--but since I bought my car used and already had the Alta parts--that's really not an option for me, unless I can find a take off--but seems like a backwards step.

Is anyone noticing either any kind of difference--sound wise or numbers wise--whatever difference between the Voltage and Alta??

Thanks

Richard

 

I cannot see how it could be a detriment in any wayl I do know that Dale at Voltage recommends the Samco hose. Roggenmini who posted here is running the Alta hose with his Voltage. You could ask him for specifics...

 

I have the Alta hose. It was kind of hard to get it to stay on. I had to really tighten the clamp. But have not had any problems. I have to say that I love the whole look of it. I have the Blue Alta hose, I wasn't sure how it was going to look but I really like it. Matches my nology wires!

 

You wrote that there is so much airflow through the airbox, that it stays cool. In other words, you are saying that the airbox is transferring the heat to the air going through it. You shouldn't be happy that you don't have heat soak of your box if the reason is because all the heat that would have soaked the box is instead being transferred to air entering your engine. Kinda defeats the whole cold air intake concept.