GrimmSpeed Group Buy - Cold Air Intake - 02-07 WRX/STI, 04-08 Forester XT

The day is finally here! Introducing the GrimmSpeed Cold Air Intake for the 02-07 WRX/STI and 04-08 Forester XT. To see and learn more about it, and get signed up for discounted group buy pricing, check out this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gdintakegroupbuy/

 

It's definitely been a long time coming! We had a bit of free time on our hands so it just made sense to complete our intake offerings.

-Art

 

Tempting! I assume this would fit my FXT better than the Cobb junk that’s on it now.

 

Not sure how to word it, but my question would be something to the effect of what happened to "everybody" saying stick with the factory intake unless you're pushing over a certain horsepower? I remember when I first got my car reading about steering clear of cold air intakes because they just don't jive with the older cars.

Is that not really the case here or is it just another thing you have to properly tune for and if you do it's alright?

 

I’m going to sign up for this, yay.

 

It's all about reducing restriction, here's an excerpt I pulled from one of our engineers on the group buy page:

If you hang out on the interwebz long enough you'll inevitably see the "you don't need an intake until 300hp" argument. Now that statement itself is super misleading, and has been strangely interpreted. What it originally comes from is that the stock MAF diameter, and intakes sharing that size, have traditionally run out of resolution at airflow levels around 350-400hp. This is a physical limitation of the sizes and the sensor itself. The stock diameter size being a choke to airflow would occur at a ridiculous horsepower level, so that is not the issue. I mean, if you were tuning on speed density, the stock intake would technically not choke as far as I know at any reasonable power level. What would happen though is that it would be a source of restriction, and a substantial one at that. The pressure drop from the entire inlet would start to be a deciding factor in how much boost you were producing.

The fact of the matter is that even in completely stock form an intake like ours proves to reduce restriction, over 1.5psi here in fact.

So as far as a power level goes, it supports whatever level your tuner can keep measuring airflow at, all the way down to stock. I hope this makes sense, and if it doesn't please let me know and I can go on."

-Art

 

Haha, correct, and you're not the first to say that exact thing.

-Art

 

Here's a quick vid of our trip out to JM for intake testing:

-Art

 

I agree, it looks nice!

 

Really?! A *%&* Facebook link? You are right here on the forum, and you couldn't set it up here?! Lame

<- Someone that might have been interested...

 

I assume that’s because the FB location was a mostly-centralized place where people could sign up for the group buy and they could keep track of the names.

Of course, not everyone has a FB account, but it was probably the most-efficient solution compared to keeping track of several forums.

 

Exactly this; monitoring 5 major forums, Facebook, Instagram, email, and phone calls is a daunting task for a group buy. In the past we would use Nasioc as the centralized place for them so lots of Subaru enthusiasts had access, but they've since switched up the way group buys work and you can no longer run it as a combined group buy/product development thread, so essentially there's no customer interaction/product updates. At the end of the day group buys are about selling as much of the product as possible, that's how we can justify the lower initial cost in order to start recouping money spent on development. The fact is a majority of people have Facebook; very, very few have an MNSubaru account, or Newenglandimprezaowners.org, or ForesterXTownersofTexas.com, or whichever. We can use small forums like this to notify everyone that a new product is being released, but to host a group buy on all of them isn't in the realm of possibility. That's not to say if you don't have Facebook you can't get signed up, just shoot us an email and we'll make it happen

-Art

 

Received mine today! Can’t wait to get some free time to install it!

 

Finally got this installed last night.



Like:
-slightly quieter than the Cobb intake
-better box design
-easy installation, even for me
-looks pretty in the engine bay
-seems “fine” with the Cobb OTS Stage 2 tune

No Like:
-to prevent the intake tube from rubbing on a hard line below it, I had to have the tube rotated so that it is angled upward

Personal Annoyance:
-lost one of the coolant overflow line clips somewhere in the engine bay, so now it’s gone forever - I spent 2 hours looking for it

 

So, on A stage 2 car, will you have to have your car returned?