Ok so I just bought my car and Im planning on starting mods with an Intake, I was looking at AEM V2 and wanted to get a second opinion on it. Anyone using it can tell me how much power would I be gaining??? also is there a difference if I buy an AEM versus some other brand????

any help would be appereciated
thanks

 

for our cars the best thing to do is to get an injen cold air with a bypass valve for those rainy days

 

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do you have a pic of that injen CAI with the bypass valce for those rainy days?

 

injen cai's for our cars dont have bypass valves, its a 1-piece intake.

 

So far as I know, the AEM option of a CAI is to include a bypass valve to prevent hydrolock. Injen offers covers to go over the filter itself that are said to protect from hydrolock, but I have no personal experience with either intake. From what I've heard, Injen wins the performance on this one, but I'm not sure how well the covers protect from hydrolock, whereas AEM's bypass valve is said to be basically water proof.

The bigger issue here than brand name is style of intake. The Type-S engine works better with cold air than with a short ram, so no matter what brand you decide on (I've heard many people argue that eBay intakes work great with the right filters), you'll want to shop for a CAI. Hondata says of the K20A2: "Cold air, cold air and more cold air. The intakes on the K series engine get very hot. They have a metal intake gasket which transfers heat from the head very quickly and sitting right behind right the radiator are heated by hot air. Pay lots of attention to keeping everything cool and you will see results... <U>Long cold air intakes work the best. The long cold air intake we tested with added significant torque between 4000-6000 rpm compared to a short ram.</U>"

 

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yea u have to cut the intake andput in the valve.

 

here it is but its not on an rsx u can buy it from aem i think injen also sells like a cover for the filter



and here is the cover.......... good luck

 

The AEM cold air doesn't have a bypass either. I have one on my car. No matter what intake you get if you want a bypass you are putting it in yourself in the back yard.

 

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yea thats what i meant AEM sells it and u cut the intake and put it in

 

Ah just makin shure. I though you were still talking about the Injen only.

 

im thinking about going with the cold air and the valve and my frind already has the valve so hes going to sell it to me for like 20 bucks cuz he cant use it on his car because its turboed GTI

 

the valves arent needed....

 

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If you live in the desert. There is a real simple way I found last night. When you install the cold air system instead of using the provided rubber mount to hook it to the intake manifold use a bypass valve instead and it is all gravy.