Cold Air Intake System
AMP-INT-400

Once again, ALTA makes the highest gaining HP intake for your R56

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ALTA Performance, again set the bar high for the competition! The new ALTA R56 cold air intake not only adds proven 10WHP and 10ft-lbs of torque to your 2007+ Mini Cooper S (AKA R56), but it also unlocks the sound from your turbo! With our intake not only will you hear the turbo sucking in and compressing the air, but you will here the OEM blow off valve blowing off.

When dealing with MAF (Mass Air Flow) sensors, small changes to turbulence in the intake system, can make huge changes to how the car runs. Because we are familiar with this problem on other cars, great care was taken to eliminate any turbulence issues that might throw a CEL, or make the car run too lean or rich. We can say for a fact that our intake replicates the stock MAF curve almost perfectly!

Below is a test on a Stock 2007 R56. The gains are easy to see and feel! The only change made between runs is our ALTA Cold Air Intake.

Below are some results we got from testing the ALTA CAI on a 2009 JCW! Again just like the older car, 10WHP! Again the only change is the ALTA Cold Air intake.

High Flow Foam Filter

The ALTA performance R56 cold air intake features our standard large diameter foam filter. Many ask us why not a "K&N Style" filter?? The problem is when those styles get dirty, they block air flow and create a restriction. Foam on the other hand flows almost the same as it does when clean or dirty. Foam traps the dirt as it passed through it, but at the same time allows air to flow around the trapped dirt. This is how it stays restriction free. As you see, foam is our choice of filter media as it provides virtually no restriction when clean or dirty.

Light Weight Aluminum Air box

The ALTA R56 air box was designed around light weight aluminum. This provides a nice stiff, strong, and corrosion proof shroud for the ALTA high flow foam filter. Like our other parts, a high quality black powdercoat is applied to keep things looking clean and finished for the life of the car. This allows our intake system to help remove weight from your car, not add it like some intake do.

Silicone Intake Hose
Our 5ply Silicone Elbow is rated for 200psi, and 400 degrees. Like other ALTA products this part is over built to ensure a life time of use. This is one of the key features to our intake as the bend provides the proper MAF (Mass Air Flow) sensor reading. This is important to ensure proper metering of airflow, which ensures a safe AFR (Air Fuel Ratio) and to eliminate possibilities of check engine lights.

Cold Air/Fresh Air

Seeing that the OEM scoop was blocked off on early models and partially blocked off on newer ones, we thought this was a great way to get cold fresh air into the filter. During our test and tune session on the dyno we proved that removing the scoop was important. The temp around the air filter droppped 30 degrees and the car gained 3WHP with it removed. This brought perfect ambient temp, cold air directly to the filter. This test and tune session showed us we didn't need an expensive traditional type "air box", to surround the filter. Needless to say we continued with designing the intake around no scoop, and you can see how the final designed turned out!