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Originally Posted by Ant Man
Software not need for the changing the air filter, the ecu is more than capable of dealing with more air. If you are removing the front cats, then to make the most of the decrease in back pressure, the engine will benefit from a remap.
I'm amazed you can feel a torque difference as that must be a good increase to be noticeable. What MPH do you feel the improvment at these low RPMs?
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We're changing the filter, and the intake boot going to the manifold- which is considerably larger than the stock one.
It's not absolutely necessary, but that doesn't mean that more power can not be had with some fine tweaking (especially in conjunction with HFC's, which my car currently has).
I just notice a general improvement in pickup, particularly between 2 and 3k RPM. But it hasn't been dyno tested yet, so my opinion is at best, speculative.
Like I said above, we wont know for sure until the car is on the dyno. I'm planning on taking off my Fabspeed cats and x-pipe, and putting the Akrapovic full system on. Then I will dyno the car without making any changes to anything. Then I will remove the AFE intake and put the stock setup back on with the MS filter I had in before. If the dyno shows a loss of power or torque after that, it will be clearly attributed to the intake.