What Volant Performance makes

Volant Performance designs performance cold air intake systems and replacement air filters for the automotive aftermarket, aimed at cars, trucks, SUVs, and Jeeps. The core product is the Closed Box cold air intake, a sealed airbox that the company says keeps incoming air cooler than a traditional open-element system while shielding the filter from engine-bay heat and road contaminants. Alongside the closed-box line, Volant sells metal open-element intakes, catch cans, prefilters, and a full replacement-filter catalog.

The filters come in three media types, and the choice of media is central to the brand. Volant offers PowerCore synthetic filtration, DryTech dry filters, and traditional oiled cotton-gauze filters, so a buyer can trade off airflow, service interval, and maintenance style. The company also lists Volant exhaust systems to round out the airflow path. Product fitment spans common enthusiast platforms including the Ford F-150 and Raptor, Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, RAM 1500, Toyota Tundra and Tacoma, and Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator, which places Volant squarely in the light-truck and off-road segment of the aftermarket.

Technology and filtration partnership

Volant's filtration story runs through a named technology partner. According to the company, it partnered with Donaldson to bring PowerCore filtration technology to the automotive aftermarket, using an engine-air media originally developed for heavy-duty and industrial filtration. That relationship is the technical claim the brand leans on most: better particle filtration paired with the airflow gains an intake is bought for. Buyers who care about a supplier's underlying technology, rather than just the finished part, can read this as a supply relationship with an established filtration OEM rather than a purely in-house media claim.

Ownership and history

Volant Performance was founded in 1998 as a Southern California maker of cold air intakes. In August 2013 it was acquired by TMG Performance Products, LLC, the Cleveland-area manufacturer best known for CORSA Performance exhaust systems, and Volant's design and manufacturing moved to TMG's plant in Berea, Ohio. Today Volant is one of TMG's core brands alongside CORSA Performance and CORSA Marine.

In June 2022, TMG Performance Products was acquired by Race Winning Brands, a performance-aftermarket platform backed by the private-equity firm MiddleGround Capital. Trade coverage described the deal as MiddleGround's fourth add-on acquisition for the Race Winning Brands platform, adding premium intake and exhaust brands to a group that also spans engine internals, engine management, and drivetrain products. So a buyer evaluating Volant is really evaluating a long-running brand that now sits inside a larger, PE-backed manufacturing group, which matters for questions of continuity, tooling investment, and catalog support. Day-to-day, Jeff Post has run national sales for TMG's CORSA and Volant brands, with the company since 2013.

Certifications and regulatory status

Volant does not publish an ISO or IATF quality-system certificate on its site. Its most consequential compliance credential is regulatory: many Volant intake kits carry California Air Resources Board Executive Order (CARB EO) exemptions, which make covered part numbers 50-state legal for the specific year, make, and model combinations listed on each order. Volant maintains a CARB emissions information page and a decal-request process so installers can document compliance. Not every application is covered, and the company is explicit that some vehicles have no Executive Order, so emissions legality depends on matching the exact part number to the vehicle. For an aftermarket airflow product, that EO record is the closest analog to a PPAP-style approval trail that a direct-materials buyer would look for.

Who buys Volant

Volant sells primarily to consumers and enthusiasts, both directly through volant.com and through a dealer network, rather than through named OEM supply contracts. There is no documented OEM program to publish; instead, the customer signal is breadth of vehicle coverage and a warranty-and-rebate program that points to a stable direct-to-consumer operation. The brand also runs a first-responder appreciation program and publishes maintenance guidance for each filter type, both markers of an established consumer brand rather than a build-to-order component supplier.

Sourcing evidence

No US import bill-of-lading records matched Volant Performance or its parent, TMG Performance Products, in the customs data reviewed for this profile. That is common for an aftermarket brand that manufactures domestically in Berea, Ohio and sources components through its parent group, and it means the usual customs-based signals (shipment counts, origin mix, supplier network) are not available here. Absence of a customs record is not evidence of importing or of not importing; it simply means the ocean-freight channel that these records cover did not surface Volant under either name. The publishable facts on this page rest on the company's own materials, public acquisition filings and trade coverage, and the CARB Executive Order record.

Frequently asked questions

What does Volant Performance make?

Volant Performance makes performance cold air intake systems and replacement air filters for cars, trucks, SUVs, and Jeeps. Its flagship is the sealed Closed Box cold air intake, and it offers filters in PowerCore synthetic, DryTech dry, and oiled cotton media, plus metal open intakes, catch cans, and exhaust systems.

Who owns Volant Performance?

Volant Performance is a brand of TMG Performance Products, LLC, which acquired Volant in 2013. TMG, which also owns CORSA Performance and CORSA Marine, was itself acquired in June 2022 by Race Winning Brands, a performance-aftermarket platform backed by MiddleGround Capital.

Where is Volant Performance located?

Volant Performance is designed and manufactured at TMG Performance Products' plant at 140 Blaze Industrial Parkway, Berea, Ohio 44017, in the Cleveland area. The brand was originally founded in Southern California in 1998 before the 2013 TMG acquisition.

Are Volant cold air intakes legal in California?

Many Volant intake kits carry California Air Resources Board Executive Order exemptions, which make the covered part numbers 50-state legal for the specific vehicles listed on each order. Legality depends on matching the exact part number to your year, make, and model, because some applications have no Executive Order.

What filtration technology does Volant use?

Volant uses Donaldson PowerCore filtration technology in its PowerCore intake line, a synthetic media the company adapted from heavy-duty filtration for the automotive aftermarket. It also offers DryTech dry filters and traditional oiled cotton-gauze filters as alternatives.

When was Volant Performance founded?

Volant Performance was founded in 1998. It has operated continuously since then, first as an independent Southern California manufacturer and, since 2013, as a brand of TMG Performance Products.

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