aFe Track Series Carbon Fiber Intake Back In Stock

gram10 · Apr 3, 2026

CaptainAwesome said:
When I reached out to aFe, this was their response:

Hello

The filter is not going to lock in place. The housing is larger because as the engine torques under acceleration the tube needs to have movement. If it was a solid mount, it would put stress on the tube and the couplers and possibly come off.

Best Regards,
George Peltier
Technical Support
Company: 951-493-7100

George doesn't seem too technical

Nick797 · Apr 3, 2026

Mine is not a track series, but Mine runs this style filter like @gram10

@CaptainAwesome did you get yours from us? Let me know I can try to help figure out what is going on if so.

CaptainAwesome · Apr 3, 2026

It just stinks because I sent them the manual deetail where it literally states that you are to feed the filter flange through the housing until it snaps in place. I then asked what the point was of sealing the filter housing from the engine bay everywhere except around filter flange. Now they just aren't responding. I am not looking for free stuff. I am sure they have a ton of smart people who work for them. Even if they can retro fit something to make the housing hole smaller to fit the flange or flange larger to fit the hole.

I ordered mine from aFe Power, I do not know the difference between filters, but the info is below if that helps.

Track Series Red Kevlar Carbon Fiber Cold Air Intake System w/ Black Pro 5R Filter SKU: 57-10032KR

gram10 · Apr 3, 2026

CaptainAwesome said:
It just stinks because I sent them the manual deetail where it literally states that you are to feed the filter flange through the housing until it snaps in place. I then asked what the point was of sealing the filter housing from the engine bay everywhere except around filter flange. Now they just aren't responding. I am not looking for free stuff. I am sure they have a ton of smart people who work for them. Even if they can retro fit something to make the housing hole smaller to fit the flange or flange larger to fit the hole.

I ordered mine from aFe Power, I do not know the difference between filters, but the info is below if that helps.

Track Series Red Kevlar Carbon Fiber Cold Air Intake System w/ Black Pro 5R Filter SKU: 57-10032KR

just push the filter into the housing until it snaps, the intakes have a flex coupling for the engine movement, no need to worry about that.

It does take some effort to get it to snap into the housing, but it will work

CaptainAwesome · Apr 3, 2026

gram10 said:
just push the filter into the housing until it snaps, the intakes have a flex coupling for the engine movement, no need to worry about that.

It does take some effort to get it to snap into the housing, but it will work

Does the filter flange diameter get larger? I have no issue pulling the flange thought housing, the issue is keeping it there. No matter what I do, there is 1/8" daylight between the openig in the housing and the flange.

gram10 · Apr 3, 2026

CaptainAwesome said:
Does the filter flange diameter get larger? I have no issue pulling the flange thought housing, the issue is keeping it there. No matter what I do, there is 1/8" daylight between the openig in the housing and the flange.

keep pushing! As I said previously, it was difficult. From your picture below, I'm not sure what you have the hose clamp actually connected to. It looks like it's just on the pipe.

Look at my picture, the filter is all the way through. it took some fighting with it.

CaptainAwesome · Apr 3, 2026

gram10 said:
keep pushing! As I said previously, it was difficult. From your picture below, I'm not sure what you have the hose clamp actually connected to. It looks like it's just on the pipe.

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Look at my picture, the filter is all the way through. it took some fighting with

CaptainAwesome · Apr 3, 2026

I will give it another shot and let you know.

gram10 · Apr 3, 2026

CaptainAwesome said:
I will give it another shot and let you know.

Keep fighting the good fight! The intake was kind of a pain to put in, took more effort than I thought it would.

I did it as it satrted getting dark a while back and it was driving me nuts, once the filter popped into place it was smooth sailing

Mikey Swift · Apr 3, 2026

Friendly reminder...all this work for minus 10hp.

lapoolboy · Apr 3, 2026

Mikey Swift said:
Friendly reminder...all this work for minus 10hp.

AND minus $700 too!

But, but....it looks cool!

gram10 · Apr 3, 2026

Mikey Swift said:
Friendly reminder...all this work for minus 10hp.

i keep seeing this get tossed around, is there other testing besides that one jb4 dyno?

Mikey Swift · Apr 3, 2026

gram10 said:
i keep seeing this get tossed around, is there other testing besides that one jb4 dyno?

There are a few things I've seen that show no gains. To be fair, on most normal vehicles, an intake usually will net you gains ...but with the RHO, it already comes with a high flow ram air intake from the factory. So it makes sense that changing it won't do much of anything, and depending on what you use, could hurt the HP. But I like to poke fun, don't take it too seriously...it's your rig at the end of that day, make it how you like. It's all good.

CaptainAwesome · Apr 15, 2026

gram10 said:
Keep fighting the good fight! The intake was kind of a pain to put in, took more effort than I thought it would.

I did it as it satrted getting dark a while back and it was driving me nuts, once the filter popped into place it was smooth sailing

I did finally get it in. I appreciate your help. Support threw me when they said told me it was not supposed to snap in place and was good not sealing and just hanging there. I guess they may be involved on the message board here since after I posted, support amost immediately responded and said that it was supposed to snap in place and I need to keep trying.

I did offer them some suggestions for notes to add in their instructions to possibly help people avoid the problems I went through. Whether or not they care will be up to them.

Even though I was able to eventually get the filter to snap in place, the fit between the turbo inlet gasket and the filter housing is so tight as soon as I tried to install the pipe the filter immediatley fell out. I asked them if there was any reason they would recommend against placing a towel or folded cardboard between the housing and filter as a spacer to hold in place while installing the pipe, because trying to rotate the pipe and filter into position while pulling the filter flange through the housing and trying to get to snap back in place was enough to drive me crazy, and if you did not know it WAS possible, you would not believe it. Especially since, I could be wrong, but I believe that the pipe and filter must be oriented (rotated) pretty much exactly or it will not work.

Also, in the instruction they havee you put on the metal piece that extend over the pipe prior to installing the pipe. Since I have taken this apart and put back together several times now, I do not see any benefit to installing this first. All it does is makes installing the pipe more difficult than it has to be and is another thing you could scratch the pipe on.

At the end of the day, everything worked out. I appreciate everyone taking the time to respond.

I understand the comments about HP, but personally I decided to go with this to get rid of the sound damping and because it looks nice. Yes it was expensive, but out of the intakes I saw I liked it the best.

As soon as I am able, I would like to put some downpipes on it and eventually bigger turbos if that is ever on the table.