25 Real VS. Fake Car Mods!

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The biggest difference I noticed with a cold air intake is marginally better mpg. Though, the intake on it before had massive air leaks. 🤷‍♂️

my cold air intake was totally worth it for the look and sound, but besides the mpg boost there is not much performance gain to be had unless you are boosted

Don’t forget that there are 2 types of intercoolers, “air to air” and “water to air”. Basically “air to air” is the type you see sticking out of the front end and are usually quite thick and works like the name suggests, the “intake air” passes through the intercooler and gets cooled down by air going through it. Water to air intercoolers are usually a slightly more complicated set up, basically you use water to cool down the “intake air”, most set ups use a “heat exchanger” (a radiator of sorts) which is “plumed in” (or connected) to the intercooler. But water to air can also be a “ice box” set up. Water to air is a pretty efficient system and usually takes up less room than a air to air set up.

One thing I noticed with the cold air intake is how fast the turbo builds boost compared to on the stock box. It's not making any more power, but it feels much quicker because of that.

0:55 Throttle response, while not being extra power, is a very, very valid thing to want in your build. Like, an NA with poor throttle response can straight up be worse than a turbo'd engine with really good throttle response. 3:30 Pretty much every car already has a cold air intake. A true cold air intake is giving it access to proper airflow, like by positioning it behind a bumper or headlight vent. Or out your hood. Or any other alternative you can think of, the sky is the limit.

the way I see it, for all of this, is that there's no reason to cheap out on it. The fake/cheap stuff can actually be more dangerous than the real thing. In my opinion, there's no reason to buy the cheap thing and say you'll buy the real thing when you have the money. save the money now and buy the real thing right off the bat.

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A cold air intake, or similar tube+filter setup is also a great maintenance mod. The stock tubing and airbox take up so much space that you need to remove them all the time to swap out parts/do some maintenance, so having a simpler setup makes it a lot easier.

I have a short ram on my car, but it’s mainly for the sound it produces. Make the intake hella loud, and sounds great. There’s no performance gain from the butt dyno, but it’s still a cheap $100 way to make your car sound awesome.

There are real electric supercharger basically a procharger driven by an electric motor but the one you showed is the scam

Always glad to see these kinds of videos because when it comes down to someone wanting to mod their car stuff like this is going to be another good reference

Dear Bladed, Thank you so much for the mod infomation. I really apprecate your videos and thanks for making these times so much easier for me.

I had an r53 mini cooper. It was supercharged. Installed a fitted cold air intake (not some generic cone filter) and it made the supercharger way louder if nothing else. Best mod for that particular car.

Bladed thank you so much for making this video. I've continuously came back to it before ordering or thinking about getting parts so it's nice to have a reference on what to get.

On lowering springs, I lowered my Mercedes 190E couple of years ago with Eibach pro kit springs. Everything was fine, apart from the fact there was this weird creeking noise when I turned the wheel while parking. After checking everything and replacing every part there was to replace with suspension and steering, finally I found the issue. The steering drop link bushings on the passenger side became stressed when I lowered the springs, since this cause all the steering angles to change. TL;DR, if you lower your ride height, you must then also replace or re-adjust all the steering components.

I know Cletus made another video on electric superchargers, that used a huge battery and a switch to turn it on. I believe it was on a colbalt and it gained power.

I would like to know your opinion about modifications in the interior, ambient light etc.

Very informative video :)

As a teenager who likes loud exhaust, I don’t do it for “attention” or “daddy issues” I simply like hearing the car/truck I am driving, and I would put glass packed exhaust/high flow mufflers to give it more sound depth, I just wanted to say that lol