Axl,
Thanks for your positive feedback on the"TINMAN" Cold-air kit! Are you sure you didn't pop a "Viagra" before installing your kit?...... actually,your results are quite typical . Glad to hear you are happy with our product.
We manufacture the "TINMAN" Cold-air kits to be the best possible fit, quality and performance available, bar none. They have been designed and tested to outflow any other 4" kit on the market for the Turbo Buicks. The "TINMAN" Cold-air kit should be the last intake kit you'll need until your Buick is running into the 8's.
Rodman99999, you can see or order a "TINMAN" Cold-air intake by clicking here:
www.modelman5.com/tinmancoldairkit.htm By the way, the price is now $189.00 . Haven't updated the website yet.
Sorry.But remember, you get what you pay for ,and component costs have been constantly rising lately.
Antagon, the "TINMAN" kit doesn't use a rubber elbow like the big mouth kit. It uses 4" mandrel bent elbows that will fit without drilling holes or cutting the radiator support opening.. And it will allow you to keep your fuel vapor cannister in it's stock location too. It also includes a better filter than most other kits are using.
And DonnieShort, just for the record, the' TINMAN kit was designed back in the early 1990's. At the time, kits were custom made to order, and we didn't advertise them. In 1999 , the TINMAN Cold air intake kit was advertised on the web by myself, and my dealers. Just weeks later it was "copied" and others were advertising their kits as "TINMAN" copies. That includes the big mouth kit which used a similar approach to bringing in cool air, BUT IS NOT identical to the "TINMAN" kit. If you need more info, call me or E mail me.#'s are on my website. ..There IS a difference....And BTW , the TINMAN kit NEVER, I repeat, NEVER used flex or dryer hose. Always mandrel formed, rigid elbows.
The TINMAN Cold-air kits are made and marketed directly by "Tinman Performance Products Co.( a division of Tylko Metal Fab) in Sterling Heights, MI. Also available thru it's dealers across the country. WE also are now producing 3", 3 1/2" and 4" MAF pipes to work with or without the TINMAN kits going to the turbo, with any MAF sensor or without MAF.
OK I feel better now.
Axl, Thanks again, glad you liked the kit. Thanks for sharing your results and input on the TINMAN Cold-air kit !!!
Al.......aka The "Tinman"
87' GN ,factory stock longblock, TA-49 turbo, 10.93 sec. @ 123.8 mph