06-05-2019, 11:23 AM | #1 |
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Project Gamma Intakes Installed
What’s up all.
Just wanted to report on initial impressions with Project Gamma intakes. They are local to me here in Houston, so I went and met with Sam, the owner, and had them installed last week. The reason I went with Project Gamma is because it’s in the sweet spot on the quality and price curve. I have no interest in a $2,000++ carbon intake because, come on, that’s ridiculous for something that lives under your hood. I waited for awhile for BMS to release their F90 intake, and when I saw that it was just short-ram intakes with cone filters located in our extremely hot engine bay, I passed, even at the low price point. I ran ARM intake on my previous stage 2 F10 550i, very similar design, and in the Houston summer, I was suffering 150-160 degree IAT and the engine was knocking, pulling timing and boost. I relocated the filters behind the grilles with extension tubing and dropped IATs significantly, and had no issues after that. Our engine bays are HOT and I do not want the filter in there. Also just to add, I am not dogging BMS, they do awesome work for our community, I have run their intakes and JB4 on several cars. Just explaining the experience that is driving my choice on intakes for the platform. So, about the Project Gamma intake, it is a continuous piece of heavy-duty 3.5” silicone piping routing from the intake manifold, to behind the front grille, where cone filters are then mounted. Being that it is a single, flexible piece of silicone with smooth bends gives it four advantages in a mechanical sense: A.) smoothest possible airflow B.) lack of heatsoak (unlike thin aluminum tubing of F10 ARM intake) C.) easy installation D.) air filters mounted in the coolest possible place The price point is pretty reasonable, it comes in matching colors with no additional charge, butt dyno says small gain in the midrange, and turbo sound is much more pronounced. It’s about a 30 minute install and looks and sounds great. The owner is a good dude I’m happy to support, and also mentioned that they will be developing upper and lower downpipes in the near future. Overall I am very happy with this product and I would recommend it. I paid full price for the product and have not received any compensation or discount for the review. Cheers, Ian Video clip of my car with intakes installed: https://www.instagram.com/project_gamma/p/ByGVZUbBkxV/
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Question for you.
How do you wash your car with air filter sitting duck like that? Do you wait until the water fully dripped out of it? Or just drive away? And how often do you re-oil the filter?
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06-05-2019, 09:40 PM | #6 |
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ill keep my review short and sweet.
you get what you pay for, and the level of professionalism is some of the worst to date for me. missing parts, product not as described, and they sent me used pipes. USED PIPES!!!!!!!!!! quality car needs quality parts. shame on me for trying to cut corners with this "in moms garage" product.
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i got my pipes a little over a month ago, just getting to them now.
they are indeed used, admitted by PG a little while ago upon me reaching out. and i was missing all clamps/hardware... i get it man, you were paid by project gamma for your post today on the forum, as they offered ME to do last month. i didn't get a chance to even open my box for install today, with multiple requests over the last month from PG to paypal me money to post on the forum. you're a local guy and they made you their poster boy. so dont give me shit bro..
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I still think some water will get sucked in though with that kind of a design. Especially when it rain.
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The only “hardware” in the kit are four worm clamps with a retail value of about four bucks. The filters are Spectre, which are fine, I checked and they have like a 4.5 star review on Amazon. I personally replaced them with K&N and that would be the only option that I would like to be given by PG that I wasn’t, that is fair. As far as used pipes or whatever paid posting nonsense, I don’t know man, seems weird you would say that. The guy doing this is fairly new in the business, and looking to get his name out there, he asked me politely if I could write an honest review, and that is what you see here. My experience doing this is exactly as described, it’s a good product that I have been happy with once actually installed, which yours aren’t. You seem like an angry, rude person, and it’s super lame to come around crapping on a good product the owner is trying to get off the ground, and slinging baseless accusations about me personally. Cheer up man. |
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haha how much did PG pay you for that response? second time you referenced your pay, who's really the clown here?
you shared your experience, i shared my experience. There was nothing personal towards you about my post, besides calling out your credibility on a post that should belong on the sponsors section. my buddy got the same payment/discount offer to make a post. $50 to post on FB or bimmerpost was the offer. **new update: PG response for a brief second was "our customers run these intakes without clamps, we didn't forget any parts" all photos on PG, and OP's above shows clamps. how do you mount intakes with no clamps, filter to intake with no clamps? oh. ok.. and the admitted response to the intakes i got being used was just revealed as "these were prototypes". first response was they're brand new, second response was prototype never used, third response after i showed residue on the internal pipe was "used for only 200 miles" kind of snakey.... i think i made my point. buyer beware. c ya ✌🏻
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It looks like the proprietor has the right idea. The execution, fit/finish is not quite there yet. Before and after dyno runs would have really helped with the marketing part of his program.
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My concern is the longer piping looks more restrictive than the stock airbox.
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Flow rate is indirectly proportional to length, so a longer intake restricts flow, but not sure if it matters in this application
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I was myself accused of being on ACG's payroll because I love their pads and others have had issues .... all you can do is provide honest feedback and let the chips fall where they may. Lots of conspiracy theorists on here apparently. Enjoy your intakes ....
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