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The Civic Has Boost! - Intake R&D, Part 2: Prototype Development

April 15, 2016

Honda Civic Intake 2016+

# turbo, team mishi, spoon, SPOol, mishimoto, intake, INDUCTION, honda, featured, ex-t, civic, boost, 2016, 1.5L

We are moving along with the intake project! Last time, we talked about the stock system and our goals for this project. Now, we will show you our process for assembling a prototype that we can test and analyze results from. Let's jump right in!

Once our engineers finalize a design, the proposed idea gets modeled in 3D modeling software. The next step is to make the idea a physical reality. We have an awesome machine called a waterjet that can cut almost anything with pinpoint accuracy using a mixture of high pressure water and abrasive material. We upload our design to the waterjet through computer software, "telling" it exactly what we want to cut. The machine takes care of the rest! We just sit back and watch as our prototype gets crafted out of a big sheet of any metal we place inside the machine - in this case, steel.

Prototype 2016 Honda Civic parts ready for the waterjet process

Prototype 2016 Honda Civic parts in the waterjet process

Once the parts are ready, we pull them out of

Dyno Testing Results - MK7 GTI Induction, Part 3

November 20, 2015

Volkswagen GTI Intake 2015+

# vw, volkswagen, vdub, vag, turbo, team mishi, SPOol, R&D, PROTOTYPE, mk7, mishimoto, intake, horsepower, gti, gains, featured, euro, dyno, dynapak, boost

The time has come to test our prototype design for the MK7 intake. After weeks of designing and fabrication, the prototype for this VW is now ready to hit our Dynapack dynamometer so we can collect some data.

Testing these prototype MK7 GTI parts for overall power output gains over stock is important, so that's the first thing we needed to figure out. The larger diameter piping compared to the stock system provides increased airflow that will have a direct impact on improving power output. This car did happen to come with an aftermarket stage 1 tune on it, so we tested our intake with that software upgrade.