Product Spotlight: Weapon-R Secret Weapon Intake

Short Ram kit pictured

The big thing for us at MicroCar Magazine is how much power can we squeeze out of our cars. In comes Weapon-R, around for a long time providing the aftermarket auto parts industry with performance enhancement parts. We were lucky to have experienced the products produced by Weapon-R in one of our other project cars, 2004 Scion RS 1.0 xB.

The Install

The kit comes with 2 possible configuration, cold air or short ram, the difference is one extra tube and where the filter sits. The install was actually a breeze with the easy to ready instructions provided by Weapon-R. After we remove the stock airbox, making sure to keep the MAF sensor in its mount (Weapon-R found that this helped due to the baffels required for the MAF to work correctly). Once you actually unbolt the bottom portion of the airbox you will notice how much room it opens up.

Tools used:

10 mm socket

Phillips screw driver

The actual install only took us about 10 – 15 minutes to do the full install.

First Thoughts
After turning the car on you could hear a distinct growl that comes from all Toyota engines that have had an intake put on it. Throttle response is really great, could not tell you if I noticed a change in the horse power however I could tell an improvement in torq.

In Closing
So far I have put all of about 50 miles on this intake but as I put more on I will update you with my thoughts.

Scion xD kits
Secret Weapon Short Ram suggested msrp $215.00
Secret Weapon Cold Air suggested msrp $285.00

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