cold air intake
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Just look at the fastest times NA & BOLT/ON LS2 LS3, and you will see that Vararam is the fastest, shows the most gains. and its been on my car since 2005 37,000 miles never hydro locked, and its shinny black plastic looks the same as any other CAI black shinny plastic 
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Just depends on what you are looking for. If you want quality or cheap plastic. I mean the speed limit is 70mph and Honda Civic will do that with even a little performance, but you chose a Vette. Glad you did because that is the business I am in, but it is each his own and some people want the quality. I do not know much about LG's box, but we make our own Mamba box and I can tell you between the Carbon and the process to actually make it is very time consuming and extremely expensive.
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Just depends on what you are looking for. If you want quality or cheap plastic. I mean the speed limit is 70mph and Honda Civic will do that with even a little performance, but you chose a Vette. Glad you did because that is the business I am in, but it is each his own and some people want the quality. I do not know much about LG's box, but we make our own Mamba box and I can tell you between the Carbon and the process to actually make it is very time consuming and extremely expensive.
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Just depends on what you are looking for. If you want quality or cheap plastic. I mean the speed limit is 70mph and Honda Civic will do that with even a little performance, but you chose a Vette. Glad you did because that is the business I am in, but it is each his own and some people want the quality. I do not know much about LG's box, but we make our own Mamba box and I can tell you between the Carbon and the process to actually make it is very time consuming and extremely expensive.
I call shenanigans.
Price is not a direct reflection of quality; especially in the corvette market.
These days quality carbon fiber pieces can be produced at near the same prices of plastic; if you are making them in house, by hand, then yes it will be expensive and time consuming, if you are having them produced in an automated vacuum machine in china, like everyone else, then they will be cheap to produce in quantity.
And don't or one min. try to pull the china = crap line, the overwhelming majority of aftermarket Vette parts are made in china, including just about every name brand intake, header, exhaust, carbon fiber products, etc. etc.
Le Mans Master
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From: Tucson AZ
A true "cold air" intake will require you to cut the radiator shroud, and should be tuned. All the others mentioned just replace the filter and do not access air from in front of the radiator.
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I call shenanigans.
Price is not a direct reflection of quality; especially in the corvette market.
These days quality carbon fiber pieces can be produced at near the same prices of plastic; if you are making them in house, by hand, then yes it will be expensive and time consuming, if you are having them produced in an automated vacuum machine in china, like everyone else, then they will be cheap to produce in quantity.
And don't or one min. try to pull the china = crap line, the overwhelming majority of aftermarket Vette parts are made in china, including just about every name brand intake, header, exhaust, carbon fiber products, etc. etc.
Price is not a direct reflection of quality; especially in the corvette market.
These days quality carbon fiber pieces can be produced at near the same prices of plastic; if you are making them in house, by hand, then yes it will be expensive and time consuming, if you are having them produced in an automated vacuum machine in china, like everyone else, then they will be cheap to produce in quantity.
And don't or one min. try to pull the china = crap line, the overwhelming majority of aftermarket Vette parts are made in china, including just about every name brand intake, header, exhaust, carbon fiber products, etc. etc.
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overwhelming majority of aftermarket Vette parts are made in china, including just about every name brand intake, header, exhaust, carbon fiber products, etc. etc
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