Intake for Smart Car - Smart Car of America Forums : Smart Car Forum

ciscocali · 05-22-2008, 05:58 PM

Does anyone know any company who supplies intakes for the Smart Car?

smartt · 05-22-2008, 07:26 PM

Breathless performance will have one out by Months end. They are just finishing the Exhaust and Dyno this week. should be good. Check their website.

BreathlessPerformance · 05-24-2008, 05:31 AM

Give us about 2 weeks and we will have something for you.

Ernie

**jwight** · 05-24-2008, 07:27 AM

Ernie, that's good to hear. Look forward to seeing your dyno results with both the new exhaust and intake installed. Thanks to BPP for supporting the smart car community.

diegosilang · 05-24-2008, 07:57 AM

Yes Ernie, thanks for supporting us smart enthusiasts with your new products. Really excited what your dyno numbers are going to be once you test them with both the intake and the exhausts together. Just the other day I took my wife with me on a drive with my smart Car and she can't help but notice the slow pick up from 0-60. I told her that I am still in the break in period so did not want to redline my car to show her the real power of the smart

(although have to admit it really has a slow pick up).
So please keep it coming! And make it soon!

Smart09 · 05-24-2008, 08:01 AM

looking forward for that breathless.. i must admit your exhaust sounds awesome!!!

BreathlessPerformance · 05-24-2008, 09:05 AM

Thank you. By the way the exhaust sounds even better in person. We have a few ideas about the air intake that we should be trying next week. Not to sure on how much HP we can get but we will see.

Are guys coming to our Smart and Corvette party July 20th?

Ernie

Smart09 · 05-24-2008, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by BreathlessPerformance

Are guys coming to our Smart and Corvette party July 20th?
Ernie

didnt know about it but more than likely i will be there. hopefully by then i have my smart to head up over.

brian r · 05-24-2008, 10:07 AM

I'm interested in seeing dynos right after the install and then again after a couple hundred miles. Since the transmission computer is known to learn, I'm thinking that the engine mapping does as well. So if there is a gain initially, the computer should relearn with a new baseline and that would eradicate the gain or even show a loss. Plus, if the location of the MAF is moved at all from the factory location, it might create a lean condition and run lean. This could be very bad for the engine.

If the ECU doesn't learn and the intake temps remain the same as the factory produced (or cooler), there may be some power. Let's hope.

I was involved in development work with my Lotus Elise, which has a learning box, and until someone cracked the code and reprogrammed it, intakes could not produce any power. Most lost between 3-12% from the relearning. And of maybe 10 on the market only one had no reports of setting off the MIL.

VinceLA · 05-24-2008, 10:59 AM

brian, I am with you on this.

I came from the the BMW side wrt tuning. Though I must confess the Siemens and Bosch ECUs on most BMWs are a little more tolerant towards a mod like the CAI. Still the CEL will come on and sometimes you get the feeling that you're losing instead of gaining. I eventually went with a FI setup with a custom map.