E53 3.0 Performance Mods???

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Originally Posted by ProfessorX5

Do you gain much from the AFE? It seems it would just be sucking warm air from the engine bay, and less volume than from the stock ram intake.... or does it somehow connect to that? Never seen one in a car.

Talk about reviving a dead thread...last post prior to yours was 2008. IIRC 3 of those 5 posters don't even own their X's anymore.

As for the intakes...they've been all debated both for & against. Personally, the 3.0 isn't meant for speed, and little mods like that are going to be nothing more than a waste of money as well as a disappointment in mere marginal gains. The only way to get some serious gains on our humble little straight 6's is something like an ESS kit....but the $5k proce tag scares most off.