Thinking about making a full Intake Manifold Replacement

[turboyaris]

I feel that you have no experience with standalones & your statement will cause confusion. ANY standalone (AEM EMS, Motec, Haltech) will be 1000 times better than ANY piggy back. I guarantee you that you can get more power with a stanalone. And as for standalone being to much $ for just a turbo kit, when do you feel you should go with a standalone?

let me clarify then, so as not to mislead people. The majority of people on this forum have an NA and will always have an NA setup, even those that go turbo will more then likely stop at the 8-12 psi level. That being said if you have a stock engine with a turbo on it I don't see you getting much out of a stand alone system, certainly not for the amount of money and work to buy it install it and have it tuned. Yea sure they are 1000 times better but only when engine parameters change. I feel a standalone would be needed on a fully built engine, with adjustable boost levels, longer duration cams, bigger valves, these kind of components. If you look at a lot of the tuner cars, you tell me how many of those cars go stand alone. Very few, because of all the work associated with the setup. The majority of the other tuner cars like SRT4, evo, sti all of them go to a reflash or piggyback system.