I am still waiting for the new bracket to come, don't think it will be here before the weekend so might be until the following weekend when I could get it installed.
Stock, I could barely hear the turbo. Tuned, I could hear it a lot more, but not enough for me. I hear it better with the windows up (no road/wind noise). I will try and take a video on my phone when I get the
intake installed but I can't promise the quality of it.
As far as the BOV goes, I wanted one but that would be a bad idea. Since the regal regulates its boost based on the MAF, you'd have air coming in the
intake, the regal reads it thru the MAF and decides the boost level, then you release that boost when you let off and the air is vented out, yet that isn't read by the computer. So basically the air originally read never goes into the engine, it'd make the car worse, slower and run rough. A buddy of mine had an atmosphere BOV on his talon, cool loud sound but ran like cr@p! You HAVE to vent it back into the
intake, but even then, I don't see it being worth it. I didn't see any bypass system on the regal, when I took the
intake off, there was only 3 connections to the
intake, 2 sensors and the crankcase vent, no return from a bypass valve. When I spoke to trifecta about getting the tune for an atmosphere vented BOV, they suggested against it. They said get an
intake and it should give me enough sound, if not, then maybe a bypass valve vented back into the
intake, but they still advised against it.
I will post back results with the
intake when I get it installed.
