Jumpin' Sleeve of Wizards.....

I'm happy for you 56ers. Honestly.

In freshalloy the tester said "cai". Is this just a typo or are they building a cold air intake? I thought it was a short ram intake. Please let it be cold air, that would be awesome. Sweet googly moogly .

infinitedrift wrote:In freshalloy the tester said "cai". Is this just a typo or are they building a cold air intake? I thought it was a short ram intake. Please let it be cold air, that would be awesome. Sweet googly moogly .

In my opinion a cold air intake is where the air filter resides outside of the engine bay area. R2C's traditionally have their filters located in the front of the engine bay which would make it a short ram intake but utilizes a box design that isolates the filter from heat generated by the engine allowing only cool outside are coming through the front grill.

^^ correct. It doesn't suffer from the heatsoak of a traditional 'pop charger' or short ram.

Any non-stock intake pipe and conical filter setup is a cold air intake in many people's mind.

That's true Debonair. Like I said, a actually CAI would be awesome but it would require removing the washer fluid. Anyone willing to do that? Lol.

Any updates on the build?

so what's going on with the intake?

1GR8M56S wrote:so what's going on with the intake?

Weird coincidence! I just contacted them today and they are still working on the heat shield prototype. I will update this thread as I receive updates from them

awesome, thanks

Any news on this?

No updates yet since two weeks ago. I dont want to feel like I'm harrassing R2C, they did tell me he will email me with updates.

anything yet?

1GR8M56S wrote:anything yet?

Still being worked on. My buddy just had his car over there for more prototype fittment.

thsts good news, thanks

Prototype fitment testing means they've already designed and built at least one model...excellent news indeed.

Here are some updates from the other test vehicle over at Freshalloy:

http://www.freshalloy.com/showthread.ph ... ost1627081

HDCL wrote:This is still a work in progress but here is what I am told the prototype looks like so far. I may get a chance to have this installed in my car in the next 2 weeks.

awsome!! any guess what the cost might be?

Nice!

1GR8M56S wrote:awsome!! any guess what the cost might be?

I know I paid about $300+ in the past for my oldG35x. No clue what the pricing will be for the M56 yet.

CRV_33 wrote:

1GR8M56S wrote:awsome!! any guess what the cost might be?

I know I paid about $300+ in the past for my oldG35x. No clue what the pricing will be for the M56 yet.

lets see what it goes for, anxiously waiting.

anything yet?

Last I heard, all the engineering work has been completed. R2C is in the process of getting equipment to start manufacturing these intakes for us soon.

I talked to them yesterday they said it's complete. Waiting for tooling. Will be ready in a month or two.

anything on pricing?

I didn't asking but probably 400-500 based on g37 prices

thanks

Yeah I havent heard anything about pricing at the moment. I'm just anxious for the part to be available at this point. LOL

CRV_33 wrote:Yeah I havent heard anything about pricing at the moment. I'm just anxious for the part to be available at this point. LOL

How long has it been like 6 months?

1GR8M56S wrote:

CRV_33 wrote:Yeah I havent heard anything about pricing at the moment. I'm just anxious for the part to be available at this point. LOL

How long has it been like 6 months?

When Ilya created this thread at the end of October, after I reached out to to R2C and they had expressed interest in creating an intake for us. It took a few months to find some test vehicles in the Chicago area but we finally got two M56 to step up and take care of this. Thanks to Blackct81 for referring one of his clients. I was able to locate the other M56 a member of Freshalloy.