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      12-11-2019, 05:26 PM   #1
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Agency Power Front Mount Intakes Installed

Went to Gintani today to have my front mount intakes installed on the M2C! Overall I'm very happy with the installation and Gintani's service.

The sound inside of the cabin is the same(if not quieter) than stock. Open the windows and you hear this intoxicating induction and spool broadcast loudly. Engine feel is about the same, although they did say the ECU will adapt slightly and change over the next few days.

During the one hour I've had driving since install, I've already had two people ask about the intakes. Personally I think they look good and serve as a cool talking piece.

If anyone has questions feel free to ask away!
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Those look cool and I love that they directly draw cold air (not like the stock airboxes that are snorkel-less) ... A little worried they block the radiator a bit... But if you're not tracking the car, that might not matter.
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Those look cool and I love that they directly draw cold air (not like the stock airboxes that are snorkel-less) ... A little worried they block the radiator a bit... But if you're not tracking the car, that might not matter.
No track use, just a fun daily driver!

From what I've read temperatures stay about the same as stock
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Hope you do not drive in the rain
Or drive around sandy areas or pretty much any place where the air is full of micro particles

Iirc, a guy from UAE had these aftermarket front intakes and his engine had a lot of issues after

It's definitely a cool mod though, just not something you wanna keep permanently installed
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Hope you do not drive in the rain
Or drive around sandy areas or pretty much any place where the air is full of micro particles

Iirc, a guy from UAE had these aftermarket front intakes and his engine had a lot of issues after

It's definitely a cool mod though, just not something you wanna keep permanently installed
Lots of filter oil may help with that, though I wouldn't trust it.

YMMV
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Meh. Terrible design.

If it's an oiled filter then it makes it even worse. Going to be clogged up with dust so fast
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Filter not oiled and I live in the California suburbs

No dust or rain👌🏼
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Went to Gintani today to have my front mount intakes installed on the M2C! Overall I'm very happy with the installation and Gintani's service.

If anyone has questions feel free to ask away!
Intakes look great, too much junk and rain in the air here to even consider them. I thought my car sounded good with removing the carbon filters and popping in some high flow filters, couldn't imagine this setup.

This isnt' relevant to the intakes, but where did you get the tri color portion on the grille? Did you buy a whole new grille from IND, or did you have it wrapped? If the latter, what colors did you go with?
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Went to Gintani today to have my front mount intakes installed on the M2C! Overall I'm very happy with the installation and Gintani's service.

If anyone has questions feel free to ask away!
Intakes look great, too much junk and rain in the air here to even consider them. I thought my car sounded good with removing the carbon filters and popping in some high flow filters, couldn't imagine this setup.

This isnt' relevant to the intakes, but where did you get the tri color portion on the grille? Did you buy a whole new grille from IND, or did you have it wrapped? If the latter, what colors did you go with?
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Wrapped in these three colors, pretty solid PITA. The M2C is cool thought because due to the grille's angle, you can see the colors in side pictures
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Wrapped in these three colors, pretty solid PITA. The M2C is cool thought because due to the grille's angle, you can see the colors in side pictures
Awesome thank you. I'll order it here soon, definitely going to remove the grille to do it though. Need a heat gun now dang it. My $100 worth of Amazon gift cards my company has given me will go towards this lol.
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Wrapped in these three colors, pretty solid PITA. The M2C is cool thought because due to the grille's angle, you can see the colors in side pictures
Awesome thank you. I'll order it here soon, definitely going to remove the grille to do it though. Need a heat gun now dang it. My $100 worth of Amazon gift cards my company has given me will go towards this lol.
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Not my cup of tea but if you're happy with it, enjoy it. Waaazzz up too Gintani crew.
You need to look for condoms for those filters.
K and N makes some.
And next tune???
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UPDATE: This quickly became a disaster. To summarize - Agency Power Front Mount S55 Intakes DO NOT work on the M2 Competition.(properly)

To be fair, I knew I was taking a chance with this install. Technically, they aren't meant to fit on the car, but I've seen it done on the forums. No hard feelings to Gintani because the install was done correctly and for a fair price.

After about 4 hours of total wheel time, I started to notice a new noise akin to a brake shuttering/vibrating. It only appeared when turning right or braking 10mph-to-zero. I popped the hood and, after some head scratching, realized the plastic driver's side intake piping was rubbing against a pulley. I could feel a chunk worn out of the piping. The last thing I wanted was to have a belt snap on a 5k mile car.

Got it home and tried 50 ways to jerry rig it to work, and it was doable, but not to any comfortable standards. I eventually decided to cut my losses and began disassembling everything. Took the front bumper off, swapped back to the OEM airbox, took out the charcoal filters, installed some IND reflector deletes, and called it a sad end to the day.

Holy sh*t was four hours of driving like an prick fun though, the noise was addicting.
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How easy/hard is it to remove the filters to clean them? Looks like it'd be a PIA.
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Wrapped in these three colors, pretty solid PITA. The M2C is cool thought because due to the grille's angle, you can see the colors in side pictures
Awesome thank you. I'll order it here soon, definitely going to remove the grille to do it though. Need a heat gun now dang it. My $100 worth of Amazon gift cards my company has given me will go towards this lol.
On Amazon I bought a kit just for this for like $10
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On Amazon I bought a kit just for this for like $10
Yep, ordered a bunch of vinyl the other day and spent a little bit wrapping it last night. Looks great. I'm a perfectionist and it's not 100% perfect, but it's good enough.
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I'm a perfectionist and it's not 100% perfect, but it's good enough.
Well then you're not a perfectionist lol.
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Well then you're not a perfectionist lol.
Lol, I plan on re-wrapping the ones that aren't perfect. I had a tire blow on my daily and had to have the M back together to drive to work today.

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