Intake Comparison

[714ms3]

I am sick of all the fanboy postings about COBB being better than CP-e or vice versa. and I feel that there is a need to settle this once and for all. What I was hoping for is one of 2 things:

i) Somebody else close to me in Anaheim, CA who has the COBB SRI comes to meet with me and we try out each others intakes to see if there is any obvious difference (I know the car would need a certain number of miles for the ECU to adjust).
ii) The more likely option is that I will end up buying the COBB as well (I already have the CP-e) and take the car to the dyno.

If any of our sponsors is willing to throw me a discount on the COBB for experiment sake please let me know, as that option would be more concrete.
If this has already been done before please let me know. I did search but nothing came up.
I simply feel that comparing dynos from 2 different cars is not a good way to go about making a fair comparison.

 

[Huligan]

lol

 

[SwampAss]

there isn't enough of a difference to say one is better than the other. As long as it has a MAF air straightener, it's fine.

 

[714ms3]

lol

You should be wiped off of the earth, and thrown into a trash can with your meaningless posts Only keeding! But please don't post your worthless garble in here.

And swampass, I have heard people that switched from the COBB to the CP-e complain that they could not feel a difference from stock with the CP-e. Thus I feel that this is warranted.

 

[SwampAss]

I have had both the mazdaspeed and CPE and they are both improvements over stock. The only difference I could see between the two is the AFRs at idle and low throttle inputs. Both pulled the same to me. I got the CPE thinking my Mazdaspeed CAI was causing my surging since it had no MAF straightener. Turns out that wasn't the case. My standback had a bad board in it.

 

[derspi]

I'm all for experimentation and dyno comparisons but they're just intakes. They're all about the same not to mention the fact that the CPE Nano and Cobb SRI are almost built identically. I say go for it if you have the resources to get both but I can predict you won't find much difference.

 

[mattj3636]

after intense studies and my own personal research, the cobb intake netted a total hp gain of 8 while cpe was 7.4, so the cobb increases the hp by .6 over cpe...

but also in the mix was corksports intake, which netted a total gain of 40 hp.

corksport ftw.

 

[714ms3]

after intense studies and my own personal research, the cobb intake netted a total hp gain of 8 while cpe was 7.4, so the cobb increases the hp by .6 over cpe...

but also in the mix was corksports intake, which netted a total gain of 40 hp.

corksport ftw.

40 hp from an intake? Can I have some of what you are smoking?(hippy)

 

[mattj3636]

joke brother. haha i love giving love to the ram air intake...

but if u wanna run ur experiment go for it,

however i dont see much of a difference, not enough of a difference to buy another intake and get time/money for a couple dyno runs on each, and then stuck with an intake whihc ull probly sell for less than you bought, you know...

i mean idk about you but i dont have moeny like that lying around... haha

but if u want go for it, itll definately answer everyones questions

 

[714ms3]

I know u were joking brohamski. The thing for me is that I want to pick up the Access Port (Santa should be dropping it off), and I am wondering if there would be a huge difference if I ran the Cobb map for the CP-e. I also wanted to silence the masses and show if they are both equal in terms of HP/TQ, or if one outshines the other. I definitely have the money lying around, but I will probably try to pick up a used one somewhere unless a vendor gives me a smoking deal.

 

[mattj3636]

well technically speaking, both intakes should be brand new and never been used during testing, for completely accurate resutls ;-) haha

but go for it, im def interested in seeing as well

 

[RC08MS3]

Is there a comparison for a CAI? i have a CP-e CAI and wonder how it compares to others. i didnt put it on the car so i didnt have to choose which brand over another.

 

[FrequentFlyer]

Pick the cheapest one that looks nice and forget about it. They all make more power than stock. I would be willing to bet that none of them make any more measurable hp gain on THE SAME CAR/SAME DYNO/SAME DAY, than the other outside of the dyno's error margin.