Are matched inlets worth it?

[sugarhatch]

I have read some older threads about matched inlets has anyone had them fitted recently on a 172 ph2 and what results did you get?

I have a stealth exhaust and a pipercross viper induction kit, with matched inlets and a remap what bhp do you think it would make?

 

[Aydon182]

They're not worth it

 

[Scrooge]

No.

 

[Porkie]

I have read some older threads about matched inlets has anyone had them fitted recently on a 172 ph2 and what results did you get?

I have a stealth exhaust and a pipercross viper induction kit, with matched inlets and a remap what bhp do you think it would make?

Less than 172bhp! or maybe just over.

What ever happens you are going to spend money and be dissapointed. If you want a fun car that handles great on track and road? then you have the right one.

If you want a car thats fast in straight line or has big bhp figures to boast about down the pub? buy something else

 

[ed55j]

I've just fitted my matched inlets, very minimal gains. It all helps though, and just the fact the original factory inlets were so badly matched to the gaskets made is seem worth it to me.

 

[Daz.]

No.

 

[Martin.]

On their own, no. Probably only 2-3bhp gain in them, if that! But as said, the fact I knew they could be improved was a good enough reason for me.

Every little helps.

Can always sell them on when you sell the car too if your that bothered about £150.

If I was starting again from scratch I would definitely buy them again along with supporting mods.

 

[Knuckles]

It'll probably make 164 bhp afterwards

 

[Nick172Cup]

Made a reasonable difference on my cup, torque being the difference. Maybe my original cup items were very poor from factory.

 

[clio ph1 Belgium]

Just be a cheap ass , and get the dremel out . I don't know if it did make any difference .
But the engine is the best I ever had in the clio .

 

[Fletcher]

I think they are I have a set of angelworks matched inlets waiting to be fitted.

​Every little helps with the F4R.

 

[dalealtham1]

No

 

[Gray]

You are never going to see a mega power increase, but there will be an increase. I saw an improvement in torque and smoother power delivery on my old PH-1 172.

Are they 'worth it'.. well that all depends on what you are expecting for the money you are going to spend?

 

[zack40]

is it just the 172"s that where bad matching inlets.or are the 182 the same?

 

[Martin_172]

In my opinion, Yes. Depends what you consider worth it, I know people that a £300 remap on a turbo car wouldn't be "worth it" I know people that a 1bhp gain would be worth it.

my standard ones wernt too bad, fitted a set of AWT ones and the car got a nice gain.

 

[Fletcher]

is it just the 172"s that where bad matching inlets.or are the 182 the same?

Some of the later 182 had RS stamped inlets these are slightly better, but not as good as a well matched set.

 

[Martin_172]

ive got rs stamped ones and cant decide if I should get them matched or not as obviously the gains are going to be less

 

[Fletcher]

ive got rs stamped ones and cant decide if I should get them matched or not as obviously the gains are going to be less

Depends how cheap you can get them matched for..I probably wouldn't bother though.

 

[Chris Lewis]

Surely this depend on how badly mismatched the inlets are from a starting point, no?

 

[domjolly]

My understanding after doing a lit of searching on here is its minimal gains for a fair amount of cash, also early phase 1172 seem to have the worst inlets so its worth matching them