camaro rs

The team developing this intake for our 2016 Chevy Camaro 2.0T or what I call "The TurboChevy" has been buzzing with activity. In the last post, we discussed the stock intake and analyzed each component to get a good understanding of its design. There were several ways our engineers could have created an intake for this system, and we tried and tested a few of those designs, which yielded some interesting results.

If you followed our 2016+ Camaro SS intake development, you'd see that we went through multiple designs to achieve the desirable.  In some ways this project is similar; let's walk through what we found!

Camaro parts under inspection

The Decision 2016

Rather than assume that the turbo muffling piece is actually a restrictor, we wanted to test it to be sure. Two models were 3D printed: an elbow designed to include the muffler, and an elbow that attached directly to the turbocharger, omitting the muffler. We tested both on the same day.

Camaro performance parts up for testing