[plague]

Installed my vishnu DCI's today. Wanted to slap pictures up to show how the fitment of the cones are and how they lay. Im confident that i got the couplers as deep in as i could before tightening. They seem to lay how the other DCI's lay in other pics. I have yet to drive the car to hear the sucking sound i anticipate they will make as my old car did.... I plan on a helix FMIC this week to really help the car breathe through the summer.

[Iwantm3]

what kind of car you had before ?

[plague]

I had a mk4 1.8t gti. It was an 04' sold it in 08' with 9200 original miles. thing was minty mc mint

[michael1284]

What's up dude, how's the tune? You'll hear the turbo's a lot more w/ the DCI's. And damn your engine bay is clean haha...

[Highpass]

Is this setup that much better than stock, i have been looking at a lot of different setup for intake setups and this seems like a good idea, but what about the heat coming off the engine? do you have vent scoops and taking "cool" air from your snorkel?

[plague]

Originally Posted by michael1284

What's up dude, how's the tune? You'll hear the turbo's a lot more w/ the DCI's. And damn your engine bay is clean haha...

note to e90 members: ^ good dude

the tune is great, and i will now play with map 2 with my intakes now feeding the turbos the increased air flow. thanks for checking up..

[plague]

Originally Posted by Highpass

Is this setup that much better than stock, i have been looking at a lot of different setup for intake setups and this seems like a good idea, but what about the heat coming off the engine? do you have vent scoops and taking "cool" air from your snorkel?

for $150? absolutely. if youre boosting anywhere above 10 psi you really should have an increased form of airflow so the turbos arent working so hard to suck the air through the stock restrictive airbox. YES i DO believe it is restrictive IF you are tuned. if you are NOT, it is not needed. Robert from vishnu and i had a detailed phone convo about the topic. As far as the heat, it is what it is, this is still improvement over the stock airbox. and yes i am getting RPI intake scoops soon, just deciding if i want the red ones or not still.. i believe they will look good and not tacky.. as well as an intercooler very soon to help keep things chilly.

[JTO24]

Looks good man! I gotta check out the helix FMIC when you get it. I hope to do my FMIC this summer

[plague]

Originally Posted by JTO24

Looks good man! I gotta check out the helix FMIC when you get it. I hope to do my FMIC this summer

man, youre welcome to check it out. Helix is right in manyyunk so i figured damn, i drive right over there, they install parts for really cheap, i mine as well just drive there, have it in, and leave with i on. then again, im debating between AA fmic still (but you have to cut a lot i think :/ ) ... hpf's is big but uses stocking piping.. gotta figure it out

[creaminz]

Oh man..i wish my engine bay was that clean u will love those DCIz. Wooshhhh!!!!

[eric@helix]

Originally Posted by plague

man, youre welcome to check it out. Helix is right in manyyunk so i figured damn, i drive right over there, they install parts for really cheap, i mine as well just drive there, have it in, and leave with i on. then again, im debating between AA fmic still (but you have to cut a lot i think :/ ) ... hpf's is big but uses stocking piping.. gotta figure it out

Stop by sometime and say Hi.

[Rico135i]

Originally Posted by michael1284

What's up dude, how's the tune? You'll hear the turbo's a lot more w/ the DCI's. And damn your engine bay is clean haha...

I was thinking the same thing!

[plague]

Originally Posted by eric@helix

Stop by sometime and say Hi.

Eric, i called this morning. Told ralph im ready to come by right now if you had intercoolers in stock. He said hes checking to see if he has any spare left in the next batch coming that are being made at the moment.. See what you can do for me Pull some strings lol.....

[KyLu II]

That is one clean engine bay!!

[secretsquirrel]

Thats not DIC, thats DCI.

[plague]

Originally Posted by secretsquirrel

Thats not DIC, thats DCI.

obviously lol.

[Brooklyn e70]

nice intake , im planning on getting the same setup.

[eric@helix]

Originally Posted by maxnix

Gotta love that pre-heated under hood air!

Has anybody taken temp samples under the hood at various speeds to see what the truth is? Intuitively, you're absolutely right, but I'd love to see some real data (the work done by somebody else). Been done?