I have a brand new 21 redeye. What in your opinion is the best sounding cold air intake? I am not looking for the BS of performance. I want to get the most whine out of the supercharger. Please let me know your thoughts. I appreciate it
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But the LMI has that wow factor since the tube is carbon fiber. I don’t want any rubber looking crap under my hood. I never liked the rubber gromet component of the stock intake
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The JLT shown here is a stock match for the 2019+ unit. It mates to the hood snorkel outlet and has piping to keep the air catcher headlamp duct functional. It's made specifically for the 2019+ Hellcats.
I was thinking the same thing. The factory setup on the redeye is about the best you'll get for performance.
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Not correct, good sir! I took this straight from the JLT purchase page: Will not fit with Redeye hood or 2019+ Challenger hood without modification.
Linky: JLT Cold Air Intake (2015-2020 Charger Hellcat 6.2L; 2015-2018 Challenger Hellcat 6.2L)
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Yea, but the aFe is still louder. Its the loudest available to my knowledge.
Keep it stock. Don’t bother with anything else.
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Yeah I just put the AFE stage 2 on my car, the whine is absurd lol. It makes sense, it has the biggest filter and inlet tube of all the hellcat intakes on the market
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Yep
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Can you enumerate all the engine failures experienced from people NOT being "protected from moisture?"
Actually, can you even find one time in the history of mankind where any Hellcat had a problem with intake air moisture?
Documentation would be good, too. The way people talk about this great existential threat to the engine's existence, precipitation, there must be thousands of examples of people driving, rain starting, and instant Bikini Atoll event consuming the front of their cars, right?
After a lot of research myself I went with LMI
The sound is so addicting and the carbon fiber looks way better than the plastic and rubber that was on there
I was able to pick mine up from Chris directly as LMI is in Orlando
The sound is so addicting and the carbon fiber looks way better than the plastic and rubber that was on there
I was able to pick mine up from Chris directly as LMI is in Orlando
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I haven't messed up my Hellcat, but I did hydrolock a Subi WRX with about a quarter cup of water that got into the air intake from sitting outside the shop overnight. We started it up to bring it in to do some work and it hydro locked the motor. We had to rebuild it on our own dime. I could have said, "look, you didn't tell us that your car can't get wet..." but I'd rather not have gone through the hassle of getting sued and dealing with all of that. So, I did a solid and rebuilt the guy's engine. In the process, I put on a different intake because the kit he had on defied logic. His intake was about 8" off the ground in a box. The box picked up air from under the front fascia, but it was ill adapted to the position and any water that got into that side of the engine bay could fall into the box. We got about 2" of rain the night before and it was enough to have the engine suck up enough water to kill itself.
The guy used a system sort of like this one, but it was mounted vertically and tilted back on an angle, in front of the right wheel, way down at the bottom of the engine bay:
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So, the Hellcat intake, which has no bottom, and has no way of accumulating what I suspect was more than a quarter cup of water does not seem like it would be any threat to an engine's health. It's the equivalent of people not wearing a face mask in the rain, because if it got wet, that's it, they instantly drown.
Funny how even in a closed shop, with tire and exhaust noise bouncing around inside, that supercharger scream still rose up to where it could be clearly heard!
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So, in this case, the cure would have been to just drill a few small drain holes in the bottom of the box, enough to drain water but insignificant when dealing with airflow.
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That would have been a patch fix. The intake was so low that it ran the risk of ingesting standing water. I ended up raising it and ported it out to the passenger side wheel well. Was no chance of any water intake.
The point of my post though, which was probably lost in translation, was that it only took 1/4 cup of water to hydrolock that engine. I did the math a while back, but I've forgotten the particulars on how much it takes to lock a 6.2L. If I recall correctly, it came out to somewhere in between a 1/3 and 1/4 cup of water evenly distributed to the 8 cylinders. Now, the filter medium can absorb upwards of 2 cups. I'm unsure if it's possible to ingest 1/4 cup in a short enough time frame to wreck the engine. Most climates are fine, but I use FL where I am as a litmus test, since we can get 2" of rain in an hour sometimes here. The 2019+ cars are immune, but the prior Hellcats with the box removed and no rain shielding could get a saturated air box. It's a lot of ifs and such, but in the end, it's too expensive of a test for me to run to see if it can break itself. So, I opt for caution. Pollen and rain is why I run a weatherproof air filter sock.
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