CSL Intake Engine Bay Mic

[Thrifty S50]

well well well, look what we have here. A bunch of gentleman and scholars. Cool to see my video floating around here, thanks for the kind words yall. I have had some fun duct taping mics to my CSL intake, the sound is very hard to capture correctly and Im still refining mic placement. glad to have shared it and for you all to get a kick out of it. I am a former Bimmerforums member, and new to NAM3F..

I have a much longer CSL-Intake driving video that was made after this thread was posted, if anyone is interested in that you can see it here (shameless plug :3)

feel free to ask me any questions

[nextelbuddy]

I did the same thing. I took a recording with the built-in mic on the camera I was using... Then I also put a microphone inside the engine bay rather to my phone with a sound recorder app...

And then in video editing I dialed back the audio from the outside camera so there was less wind noise but just enough so it was more realistic and I blended in the audio from the mic inside the engine bay and synced it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6NqyDNUuPI

[Tbonem3]

You can, but I don't have cats. That's my plan for my steelgrey car. Set it up so it passes smog all the time. Getting a stock sized catted sect1 is a lot cheaper than SS V1 2.5"

[heinzboehmer]

I do the box and headers!

I feel like you could get away with headers if you have cats, SAP, all the heat shields and a stock tune on. Pretty much impossible to see anything in the engine bay and even if someone does look underneath your car, you could probably argue that it's just an extra resonator lol.

At least I hope you can get away with that. It's what I plan on doing when I get my headers on.

[Tbonem3]

Or an idiot :P

I just don't want to leave CA.... yet

[jet_dogg]

That's cuz u a savage.

[Tbonem3]

I do the box and headers!

[jet_dogg]

Takes 5 minutes to take it off.

LOL!!! Don't givem any ideas T.

People here love fiddling with their cars but can't take 10 minutes once every two years to swap a box.

[Tbonem3]

Takes 5 minutes to take it off.

[eXpensiveGears]

Sounds Amazing! If I didn't have to take it off ever 2 years for smog, would jump on it immediately.

[usdmej]

The flap makes that much difference in torque down low?

no appreciable difference in power. the extra oe ducting is primarily built for sound reduction when the flap is closed. all of it is bypassed (and the loud is on) when the flap is open

[Tbonem3]

Yes, you can get airbox alone from evolve. At this point in time, I'd probably get a Karb though. I don't think evolve has made any improvements in years unlike Karb. I just really like the evolve shape/style though.

IIRC, box was $2250 and tune was $650 from that M3F evolve GB that became permanent after Brexit.

I paid $2250 for box, install kit, and tune shipped/no tax in 2017.

[Lip]

I'm sorry i worded that weird. Do they sell a stand alone Airbox.. on their site it only shows options to buy with a tune. no options to buy the airbox alone.

contact them or find another distributor online.

[jdamore44]

They do sell a tune.

I'm sorry i worded that weird. Do they sell a stand alone Airbox.. on their site it only shows options to buy with a tune. no options to buy the airbox alone.

[COVID-19]

I didn't realize how much more the evolve box was. I think I would have to go Karb just because of the cost. Does evolve sell just the intake and not the tune?

They do sell a tune.