Hi fellas. With cbharley's (Chris) strong endorsement, I went with the Mina intake and can only report a noticeable gain in throttle response and rwhp. If one checks out late model Mustang intakes from Shelby and Rousche, you'll notice they use a Mina style intake...for a good reason: FLOW. If you thought the Mafioso or Caldoofy modded air intake tube let her flow, then popping on the Mina intake definitely gives the full compliment of incoming flow of air our STR's deserve. The combo of modded air intake tube and Mina intake likely allows an increase of 24 rwhp. Go for it, you won't be disappointed.

 

Bless Mina for making performance parts for our STRs. Upon your endorsement, I went to their website and it does indeed they revised their intake with a seperation from the hot engine - its no longer an early 90s era "filter on a stick."

Do you have pics of it installed in your car?

 

...Great more mods to buy

 

Underpressure and Mike, you won't be disappointed. I'm betting that if Chris of Mina sold ECU tunes, he'd hook us up ($$$). I'm going to speak to him about this.

 

Intake looks good. I would be interested in seeing numbers of the Mina intake and Qwiketz intake tube (which I have installed) compared to the falt K&N filter I am using with the stock box.

 

I would love if they made a proper ECU tune. They could be an American Arden

 

I am absolutely in awe at how well the intake functions. The install is a breeze and now that they are including the heat shield this is a MUST HAVE mod for the STR club!

I wouldnt have believed it, if you told me before I tried it, but the throttle response is AMAZING and the sound... music to your ears!

If you are using the K&N flat panel today even with teh WOT flap mod, rip that plastic box of garbage out and bolt on one of the best improvements you can buy for less than $150!!

Glad to hear you like it bfsgross (Seth) I am very careful about what I endorse and this one is a big 2 thumbs up!!

 

*added to list*

 

Yea, the Mina Intake really let's her breath. I'll dyno her after the intake manifold gasket repair.

 

I also have the same set up and I am waiting for someone to post the actual dyno #s. The car dose sound alot better. You can actually hear the air pressure release sounds when off the throttle(engine cover removed)

 

Welcome to the Jaguar forum.

 

Yes, I would like to see this as well. Wondering if the diameter the same on the aluminum tube? Also wondering how well the heat shield works, and if it actually blocks all the heat from the engine bay? My dad has a K&N intake tube on his GTO that looks very similar to the Mina Intake, but the hole around the heat shield where the intake tube goes through it is really large, and the gaps around heat shield where it touches the engine bay are large as well. I also like the stock intake box because it has the quasi-ramair tube that sucks above the center grill and how it sucks air from behind the head light. But definitely the diameter of the flat panel air filter is very small. Looking forward to results on a dyno!

http://www.minagallery.com/jagxp/Jag...N%20filter.htm

EDIT: So this comes with the air filter and the aluminum elbow? Wondering if I can use my current Qwiketz elbow with this intake relative to the diameters being different? In other words: Qwiketz elbow+Mina Intake

 

So this works with your cladoofy elbow perfectly? Did you decide not to use the aluminum elbow that Mina provided? Could I bother you to take more pictures around the heat shield? I am curious of the amount of space in between.

 

I don't see why it wouldn't. The silicon couplers will allow some flex in the size they can go down to, and in worst case, you would just have to pick up another coupler.

 

Hi there!

I am using the Caldoofy elbow and the Mina intake. The Mina intake only comes with the Cone filter, heatshield, aluminum MAF box and the silicon connector betwen the MAF and the filter.

What you see in my setup is the Mina Kit combined with the Caldoofy elbow. They fit beautifully together like they were meant to go together. As you can see very nice looking and clean setup. I can take some additional pictures of the heatshield and post for you later on. Just FYI, there is a "U" shaped cut-out / channel where that the filter goes through. There is also rubber moulding at all edges and a big piece of weathersealing that goes across the top of the heatshield and actually seals in the filter from the top within the channel...

Its a really nice setup!

Cheers!

 

The modded air intake tube and Mina intake are the missing link for the STR's breathing capabilities, and worth 25 rwhp. Observe its competitors ECU tune, intake, and exhaust. Here you'll wonder why Jaguar deliberatlely restricted both (suppression of intake and exhaust noise and/or engine/trans. longevity?) We have a 4.2 supercharged engine with a potential of 500 chp, held back by corporate befudlling. Proof? Simply take a look at Avos's 640 chp 4.2 s/c with stock intake, exhaust with sport catalysts, but a twin screw. Same engine, intake, and exhaust as an STR, save a 2.5 L twin screw in place of the Eaton M112 (1.9 L).

 

I wonder if this intake is different then the version they offered several years ago. many people here tried it and got the good old CEL.

 

MAy be very similar except for heatshield. perhaps the MAF sensor was moved closer to the filter?

 

I cant comment on issues folks reported on teh previous intake kit from Mina. I was getting a CEL running a straight up K&N flat panel in my stock air box configuration (non modded complete with WOT flap) several years back and had actually cconverted back to a plain paper filter.

After much research and talking with Chris at Mina I decided to give this a go. Besides, $135 bucks for a quick 12HP mod that I can always take out if need be seemed too good to pass up.

I put mine in in about 30 minutes and havent had any issues with it since. NO CEL, NO Restricted Performance, NO ISSUES whatsoever just a great increase in throttle response and some very nice blower whine!!

Seriously, this one is well worth the asking price and whatever they have changed with the MAF location and inclusion of the heat shield etc, it works!

 

What cel were you getting before?