It really is just a tube with a filter on the end, you need to focus more on the quality of the filter.

 

as i have said time in time you are just paying for a name and a powercoatign job

all intakes are the same.. sure some may have some heatresistance type material on it.. but you can always coat that your self.

 

agreed but like vinnie pointed out some are 50 state legal. so you pay for the name and a dot sticker.

 

If you don't live in **** Germany... er, i mean Cali, thats not a problem though.
Honestly, a good filter can cost nearly as much as the whole damn Injen or AEM intake kit (ie. HKS.) It's not worth the 2hp performance gain if the filter they give you is made by a 7 year old slave laborer from tissue paper.

P.S. Cliff, i think we all just got tired of flaming.

 

if i were you, i would dreamel the bottom of the stock box of and stick a new panel filter in there, i did that the day before i put my cold air intake on and i noticed no differece between the hacked box vs the cai. they both make the same sound too.

 

All these people speak the truth. Filter type/quality matters more than design or brand of the intake. And cold air vs regular makes little difference on this car. Also butting a simple drier duct from the front bumper straight to the filter has almost the same affect as it blows cool air right at it. Even the stock intake box is not bad with a k&N drop in and some holes cut. Money is better spent elsewhere

 

unless your cool like me and get in a front end collision, shattering your intake piping, pretty much forcing you to get a new intake when you swap teh engine to the new shell. but yea, piping is piping.

 

Not necessarily if you read up on fluid dynamic principles. A perfect circular intake pipe can increase it's velocity and atmospheric volume from it's smooth contour. The problem with the stock intake pipe with just a filter bolted on is that the OEM piping is square, and round. This design was to cut back on sound, which also leads to less atmospheric volume we can rate this through cfm, while maintaining velocity (using less atmospheric volume). Velocity increases as diameter's are smaller as RPM's increase. Massive low end torque gains under 2000RPM, but there is no wide range potential.
So lets say you have a 60mm TB (KA24) and your intake pipe on AVG has a square opening of 42.2mm (assumption for stock KA24 piping), an after market intake pipe that is perfectly circular can flow through 60mm (AEM). Although the velocity of the larger diameter can be slightly less in efficient at lower RPM's there is much more air density, and volume that the stock intake , allowing more air through out the rev range.
After market piping over stock intake piping does increase HP and Torque an average of 3lb/ft, and 3 HP through out the rev range. Simply because larger diameter and smoother contour not only allow for increased flow, it is the amount of denser air flow that is achieved (atmospheric volume).

 

Vinnie althouhg i know what all that is.. my head hurts..


sup bro.. im in KUWAIT.

 

i was running a oem integra filter for a while.

then i was running the oem 240 airbox with accord piping.

then i went to autozone and got a 90* bend made by um..."spectre".

and am using that with the stock airbox but on the passenger side where the battery used to be.

i feel no gains in power or torque, just engine bay space.

 

Sorry I tried to cram 3 chapters of text into a small 2 paragraph statement. To much overkill...My bad...

 

I use JWT pop charger. works good.

 

i have a k&n filter charger in my s13 and i like it a lot.
its legal...that's pretty much the reason i kept it haha

 

Lol at reefer caring about something being "legal"

 

i got a card buddy

but yea intakes are pretty much preference...
take in mind that you do get what you pay for...