I'm looking to buy the Ron Wood STAGE I for the Renegade. From the pictures I've seen I am very worried about the air intake. It just seems to low, and to likely to get water sucked up in it. So, at this point I'm leaning towards just getting the Woods exhaust, and the Adjustable Fuel Management System.

I'm curious if...
1. Anyone is running the complete Ron Woods stage I (Exhaust, Intake, and AFMS), and what kind of performance you've seen.
2. If anyone has run the Woods exahust with the AFMS, and a K&N.
3. If anyone has video or sound clips of what that Woods exhaust sounds like.

Thanks in advance for any info!

 

Check with the Bomb. I know he has done some Woods stuff on his Outlander

 

The bomb, Goodsound and myself have all ran the woods stg 1 or more. I had the stage 1.5 so to speek on one of my Outlanders and then on my Renegade I had the pipe and the intake and that was all. Here what I recomend you buy. Just buy the pipe system, its the best out there and skip the rest, No TFi was needed on my renehade and I had the intake on mine along with the pipe.

 

The Woods pipe has a nice deep throaty sound. Its more $ than the rest, but i heard its worth it.

Stage 2 give you an extra 20HP?

 

Don't believe every thing you here. I had a stage 2 setup and the difference was very neglageble vs stage 1 or even just the pipe for that matter. Stage 2 is in no way shape or form making 20hp gains.

 

I read it on from another site that a fella did a dyno on his stage2. He kept blowing belts due to all the trq. Stage2 worth it?

 

I think Ron woods had a used race quad they were using to test some things on back when they came out with this stuff and he was having belt problems. But trust me nothing in the stage 2 is going to make a extra 20 hp over stock. I had mine on the bottle and making an extra 30-40hp and still did not trash a belt. trust me don't believe that stuff.

 

I think based on what I'm hearing I'll get the Woods exhaust, K&N Filter and hold on the Adjustable Fuel Management System until I see the need for it. The stage two is a little to much work for me.. I'm more of a bolt on keep it simple kinda guy. I heavily thought about the intake kit but that exposed intake just has me scared.

Thanks again everyone!

 

Unless you just want the whole reusable/washable aspect of the K@N your stock filter make the same if not a couple tenths more power. I know that sounds weird and I too am a huge k&N fan but after dyno testing 2 universal k&Ns and the actual k&n made for the outlander that just came out a few months ago, we gained a big 0 hp and in a few few of the pulls it looked like we had actually lost a fraction of a hp. In all the dyno time we have spent trying different setups over the past 2 years, I have learned that the intake side of this machine is very dificult to gain any hp from by all sort of mods that we have tried, filters, ported heads, custom intakes, big valves, we tryed all sorts of things. now the exhaust side seems to work like any other 4 stroke quad when it comes to gains, I have come to the conclusion that , the reason that seems to be the case is there are no sensors working in conjunction with the ecm on the exhaust side , but there are on the intake side.

 

cc1999, man I am glad you are around.. you are saving me some serious $$ on useless mods! I really appreciate it. The washable / reusable feature of a K&N is nice but, not on average $50 worth of nice. Thanks again for the info! I guess I've just been one that blindly assumed K&N = Power Gains.