Wagner Tuning Intake

[Doug_RS2]

Are these meant to be good? How easy is it to convert to this?

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[Glen Chamberlain]

Sods law says everything (wires, throttle cable will be a midges **** too small) I run a stock ABY which I’ve had for only 6 months or so, so my knowledge is limited. The main advantage, which I can see, is there is less piping from the turbo to the IM. Dunno whether this matters or not? My mate has a Urs4 with a AAN engine in which has a different IM but with the entrance in a similar place to this one! However his uses a smaller IC in front of the N/S wheel? The question is do the power gains (if any) justify the cost and hassle of this mod, or could you spend the time and money on sommat else that is proven? (Dunno what like, cos i presume yours is well kitted out)

[Mihnea]

Doug, these IMs are a perfect copy of the ones MTM and TS Tuning do as well (the TS one is copied on the MTM too), IMO there's something to be had with them, especially in terms of lag and throttle response, as well as in terms of intake air temps. A friend of mine has recently installed one from MTM and according to him, right now you can put your hand on the IM after the throttle body after a spirited run and keep it there, the IM is cool, whereas before, umm well, you know too, just try to keep your hand for a few seconds on a 3B/ABY/ADU IM after a spirited run and you'll see that you'll have a bit less skin on the hand


I can get them from Wagner Tuning for a good price BTW!

Cheers,

Mihnea

[Audi Parts Guru]

These do look very interesting, so much so that i'll probably go for one of these as and when I do my monster Turbo conversion next year

[Mark Halligan]

Mihnea,
how much cheaper can you get these for? I was looking at getting one of these from Wagner when I was putting my 'bits' together but ran out of money
But I am definately planning on one of these or something similar in the future.

Funny you mention the temp being lower, I have been looking into and thinking alot about using Phenolic spacers to cut down on the conducted heat from the cylinder head to IM
(can't do too much about radiated heat transfer )
After all we spend lots of money on bigger IC's or chargecoolers to cool the charge down and then flow it through a HOT IM. I know the charge does'nt spend much time in there, but it doesn't spend much time in the IC either, but long enough to be cooled down significantly so maybe the reverse happens to a smaller degree in a hot IM? I know the internal surface area is greater in an IC but I think you know what I mean

Cheers,

Mark.

[Audi Parts Guru]

Group buy anyone ?

[Mihnea]

Want me to organize one guys? Who'd be up? As soon as I know how many people would be up I will email Wagner and ask for a group buy price! I can get them for 650 each but if we're up for more, there is a way to take the price down! Oh and BTW, Wagner is bidding himself on his auctions with another ebay account, so don't expect them to end at less than 500 Euros, BTDT a few times


Cheers and keep me posted!


Mihnea

[Audi Parts Guru]

Mihnea,650 pounds or euro's ?

[Mihnea]

Euros m8

[Audi Parts Guru]

My only concern is if my factory cruise controll can still be fitted using this new manifold

[Mihnea]

Hmmm, I can't see a reason why it can't be retained, but it wil certainly need a bit of fabrication and creativity but I think it should still work normally....

[Sweeper]

Mihnea: Self-bidding is illegal on ebay. Need to call some authorities . Or maybe I will get one for free just for keeping mouth shut ?

[Mihnea]

Sweeper, do whatever you like, I have no proof of what I said anyway.... and he won't go into jail for self-bidding, don't worry!

[Audi Parts Guru]

Originally posted by Mihnea
Hmmm, I can't see a reason why it can't be retained, but it wil certainly need a bit of fabrication and creativity but I think it should still work normally....

Where there's a will there's a way

[Markus]

I'm kinda new to the S2 turbo piping but doesn't this IM mean skipping the "pipe" in the crossmember? Guess it would also need some modifications to the standard IC or its fittings?

Nice idea though, the S2:s standard intake piping isn't exactly short...