I feel like an idiot but I thought the silencer was the clear/white plastic directional plastic in the short 90 turbo intake tube. I cut it out. Now I guess I need to go buy that part. Can anybody help, do they make much difference?

 

Well I am sure some engineer that designed the part will have the numbers crunched to show how much it is smoothing air flow into the turbo, blah blah blah. I doubt that it will matter at all. None of the torque tube or air intake systems that replace that intake tubing have extra directional vanes. I assume you found out where the silencer ring was? I would not worry about it at all. A lot of people have taken the center baffles out of the plastic section of the input tubing to allow more air and turbo sound.

 

Thanks for the response, I thought about removing the x baffles but they looked a little bit harder to do. So you were saying there are replacement 90degree tubes without those fins?

 

The AFE Torque Tube, the AFE Stage II, cool blue tube, and others all replace the tubing from the air intake box/filter and do not have that kind of vanes for air flow. They are just open tubing, nothing inside.

 

AFE torque tube is straight threw no restrictions with the silencer ring removed the turbo whistles pretty good

 

I used 5'' pvc pipe for mine...Works fine I guess. Turbo is louder now.

 

Kevin, on the x baffles I just saw zawed mine out, took about 20 seconds.

And if you are that worried about the white plastic fins I got my stock intake in the attic, I could pull em out or just send you the whole elbow if you really think you need it.

 

If you look at the top on the stock silencer tube you will see a seam. I first made a mark with a perm marker across the seam. I then took a fine/thin blade flat screw driver and pryed the seam slowly and carefully apart all the away around. The insides (the cross pieces and two half cylinder pieces) then all just slide right out. I then a used high temp epoxy spread carefully completely around the "break" mark on the the top of the large part of the tube. I then lined up the mark I had made at the beginning and pressed the two pieces back together. I let the tube sit and epoxy cure for a couple hours while I pulled out that white piece just before the turbo and then puttered aroung the garage tinkering with my motorcycle. I then reinstalled the now empty tube, about 10-15 mins cause I dropped my wrench a couple times and had to crawl under to retrieve it, and drove off to dinner with the wife. Cost, zero, I already had the epoxy on hand from some other project. Time to actually take the tube off and modify it about 30 minutes plus a couple hours to get a good set on the epoxy. Been that way for over 9,000 miles, looks stock, has a slight incease in whistle, no other perceptable changes occurred.

 

 

I gutted my intake tube today, and let me tell you, the turbo whistle sounds good, its no psd but between 1500 and 300 rpm its loud enough to turn heads. those plastic fins were probably put in there to justify the high price of the CTD.

XLR8R, what is that Ive never seen anything like that before.