How-To: Racing beat intake installation

[aMaff]

Ok, so it's not really a racing beat, but a very close knockoff. Here goes nothin!
So the goal is to take the stock intake:

And make it look more like this:

I got the intake w/o brackets b/c they were selling it cheap lol, so I called up Racing beat and had them send me some brackets. RB decided they didn't want to send any hardware or instructions w/ the brackets, so I went to home depot, picked up a couple of steel bolts / lock nuts / washers and winged it. I had to do the bracket twice, because the lower bracket has a longer and shorter 'side', and if you have it flipped with the shorter side towards the rear of the car, it ain't going to fit. Yay no instructions! So step 1, remove stock plastic intake. You get something more or less like this:

Next, bolt the bracket in to 2 OEM holes in the unibody. The bolts were plenty long to use the stock bolts. Note the bracket in its wrong configuration:

Bolt everything together, and you end up with something that looks more or less like this:

End result: Sits right behind the headlight for extra cool air, it actually registered on the butt dyno, the whole system's louder now, and the exhaust crackles and pops a good bit more, which is fun



SUPER EDIT: For the record, I could NOT find this info in the famous garage @ M.net

 

[R2s99zoom]

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End result: Sits right behind the headlight for extra cool air, it actually registered on the but dyno, the whole system's louder now, and the exhaust crackles and pops a good but more, which is fun


SUPER EDIT: For the record, I could NOT find this info in the famous garage @ M.net

I've had the *real* RB intake for a while... and I keep telling myself theres no way i should be able to feel the diference... tho to this day i swear something feels different once i go over 4k rpms and it starts to growl.

and if your knockoff is anything like the real NA system... your bracket sucks. the bracket for the NB miatas are much nicer one pieces. and the NB intake is a much nicer overall piece, if your knockoff is anything like the real thing.

Tho your knockoff doesnt look like it has the right shape...
(looks too square)

my guess is it just looks like an RB intake... (tho either way, the important part is where they stick the k&n cone... in the cold air where mazda intended...) as long as the cone is in that part of the engine bay... i'd guess
theres probably no actual measurable HP difference....

 

[aMaff]

The bracket actually came FROM Racing Beat, sooooo you can talk to them about it lol. And the 1.8 intake is a little different than the 1.6. This is the same as the 1.6 RB intakes I've seen before, it's just not all shiny. The intakes for the 1.8 open up aren't as tight of a U as the 1.6s.

And that growl sure is nice

 

[JDM-P5]

Nice write-up Muff.
I'm working on the following:
A/F gauge install
Boost gauge install
EGT install
MSP sub/amp install (for those who want bass in their music & easy removal for the track/auto-x)

 

[SlowPro98]

werd, looks good.

 

[miataguy2cyprus]

looks nice.
needs heat shield.

 

[aMaff]

looks nice.
needs heat shield.

Thanks. I think I'm just waiting to get a header. I'll heat-wrap that, and maybe fab up a heat shield out of some scrap metal to go around the U bend of the intake.

 

[lilchild87]

Ok, so it's not really a racing beat, but a very close knockoff. Here goes nothin!
So the goal is to take the stock intake:

And make it look more like this:

I got the intake w/o brackets b/c they were selling it cheap lol, so I called up Racing beat and had them send me some brackets. RB decided they didn't want to send any hardware or instructions w/ the brackets, so I went to home depot, picked up a couple of steel bolts / lock nuts / washers and winged it. I had to do the bracket twice, because the lower bracket has a longer and shorter 'side', and if you have it flipped with the shorter side towards the rear of the car, it ain't going to fit. Yay no instructions! So step 1, remove stock plastic intake. You get something more or less like this:

Next, bolt the bracket in to 2 OEM holes in the unibody. The bolts were plenty long to use the stock bolts. Note the bracket in its wrong configuration:

Bolt everything together, and you end up with something that looks more or less like this:

End result: Sits right behind the headlight for extra cool air, it actually registered on the butt dyno, the whole system's louder now, and the exhaust crackles and pops a good bit more, which is fun



SUPER EDIT: For the record, I could NOT find this info in the famous garage @ M.net

Good post! felt any gain? btw a good idea would be to buy a pipe that goes from the intake manifold until the MAF, that would be a good small gain tho plus some high growl! lol

 

[MiaTurbo]

Good post! felt any gain? btw a good idea would be to buy a pipe that goes from the intake manifold until the MAF, that would be a good small gain tho plus some high growl! lol

Actually that part would cause you to lose power if you replaced it on an n/a car. mazda knew what they were doing and the plastic intake has a resonance chamber and it's been proven that replacing it with a straight pipe cause a loss of torque with no hp gain.

 

[NCZ13]

Actually that part would cause you to lose power if you replaced it on an n/a car. mazda knew what they were doing and the plastic intake has a resonance chamber and it's been proven that replacing it with a straight pipe cause a loss of torque with no hp gain.

dont mind him.

hes one of those tools that reads one thing, adn regurgitates it to everyone like hes the king. i cant tell you how many times he asked the same question over and over and over and over.

i dont believe hes around anymore either

 

[kcbhiw]

dont mind him.

hes one of those tools that reads one thing, adn regurgitates it to everyone like hes the king. i cant tell you how many times he asked the same question over and over and over and over.

i dont believe hes around anymore either

Are you for real?

 

[lilchild87]

dont mind him.

hes one of those tools that reads one thing, adn regurgitates it to everyone like hes the king. i cant tell you how many times he asked the same question over and over and over and over.

i dont believe hes around anymore either

Dude i'm just giving an opinion, dont't come with your s***

 

[lilchild87]

Actually that part would cause you to lose power if you replaced it on an n/a car. mazda knew what they were doing and the plastic intake has a resonance chamber and it's been proven that replacing it with a straight pipe cause a loss of torque with no hp gain.

i didn't know that, i said that cuz weapon r made out a pipe for the 1.6, here it is

 

[MiaTurbo]

i didn't know that, i said that cuz weapon r made out a pipe for the 1.6, here it is

oh i know they make it, and i know people's 'Butt Dyno' says it makes power. but it's a placibo. On the dyno it's proven to make less torque on an n/a engine, and we all know it's torque that actually accelerates a car. And yes, it does sound 'better'.

 

[MiaTurbo]

Are you for real?

I believe he meant for me to ignore the person i quoted.

 

[lilchild87]

oh i know they make it, and i know people's 'Butt Dyno' says it makes power. but it's a placibo. On the dyno it's proven to make less torque on an n/a engine, and we all know it's torque that actually accelerates a car. And yes, it does sound 'better'.

That's a good reason for to not get the one from weapon R, btw i found this one out of the web, wondering if it gives the same gains as the RB

The package comes with filter, hardware and heat shield

 

[NCZ13]

excuse me for my little outburst. i was a wee bit hungover.

sry bout that man

edit: yes i meant the person being quoted, not miaturbo.

 

[lilchild87]

Found this one out

 

[JDM-P5]

I have that same intake on my P5 actually.
Never saw it on a Miata...

 

[z00mer]

Found this one out

Looks like it's made up of parts from Spectre.
http://www.sfxperformance.com/parts/Spectre.asp

Nice write up on the RB clone.
I was just recently given an RB from a neighbor (minus the brackets and the wrong size K&N). RB sent me the brackets, but no hardware or instructions as well.