Best current intake setup for the RS?

[AS_BO]

As above. This may be a question more for Neil/Yotah as I know a lot of development has happened on their cars. Lots has been tried but what is proven/noticeably better for them? Standard with panel? V6 Airbox? Standard with resonator out and cold feed??

 

[mazmaz]

For the moment I will say R2 air box

but if you develop well 4 inlet like neil could be better
but need more effort

 

[Rob_McLav]

Best intake? Huge air filter attached to a turbo

 

[AS_BO]

For the moment I will say R2 air box

but if you develop well 4 inlet like neil could be better
but need more effort

That would be alright maz if I had £800 to spend on an intake lol! So to rephrase what is best for us mere mortals with "some" money to spend?!

 

[yotah1]

I've got a K&N Apollo airbox (pretty much simply a cone filter with a large diameter pipe for cold air intake directly from the bottom of the front bumper. It's good, not very expensive, easy to fit, much lighter than OEM airbox, and easy to clean. The intake sound is pretty nice too.

The Clio V6 airbox setup as found in the Twingo R2 cars is a step beyond, but hard to come by a used one, and expensive anyway.

The R2 Evo uses sometimes (not all the teams have it) a Clio R3 carbon airbox, which is massive, and just like the Clio V6 airbox above, it requires to relocate the battery. Oh and the pricetag on this baby is roughly 1000€ (which is what, 750£??).

Last case scenario, which is only in development : I've got the CAD of the engine and the complete engine bay so I'm modelling my own airbox while doing some air flux calculations to make sure I don't just simply create massive vortexes and mess everything up... It will be in 2 setups, one to keep the OEM battery and its location, the other with a relocated battery and therefore more space available.

 

[AS_BO]

I've got a K&N Apollo airbox (pretty much simply a cone filter with a large diameter pipe for cold air intake directly from the bottom of the front bumper. It's good, not very expensive, easy to fit, much lighter than OEM airbox, and easy to clean. The intake sound is pretty nice too.

The Clio V6 airbox setup as found in the Twingo R2 cars is a step beyond, but hard to come by a used one, and expensive anyway.

The R2 Evo uses sometimes (not all the teams have it) a Clio R3 carbon airbox, which is massive, and just like the Clio V6 airbox above, it requires to relocate the battery. Oh and the pricetag on this baby is roughly 1000€ (which is what, 750£??).

Last case scenario, which is only in development : I've got the CAD of the engine and the complete engine bay so I'm modelling my own airbox while doing some air flux calculations to make sure I don't just simply create massive vortexes and mess everything up... It will be in 2 setups, one to keep the OEM battery and its location, the other with a relocated battery and therefore more space available.

That's cool thanks for the insight Yotah, keep me posted on the airbox you're making. I'd be interested in trying this out once you've completed it or if you need a test pilot let me know.

 

[waitey]

Standard is good enough but if you relocate the battery to the boot you have a much larger choice.