I am going to purchase a CAI from a local store in town in a couple of days. Can anyone give me details on specific brands, right now i think they have told me they carry PRO-1 and AEM. What is the difference between different brands? Or is there not really a noticable difference? If the difference is minor then i think i would rather not pay $100 more for an AEM. Also, i've never heard of PRO-1 , they say it is a company from japan (but okay that would be all the companies haha) so anyone have any bad experiances with this companies products?

 

Hmm.. Well, you could go spend that hundred and more bones for the CAI.. Or you could make your own.. Use the search function and look for custom CAI or homemade ICE-BOX...

 

AEM will make a LOT more hp than the cheaper intake and it will also make a lot more than the do it yourself intake (proven by a search).

 

Sucking up water into your engine is a concearn with ANY CAI system that feeds the filter from a low-to-the-ground height. Water injestion into the sylinders can cause hydrolocking. This is documented all over the forums, lots of people have hydrolocked their engines. Some have had total damage, some minimal.

AEM has introduced a (half-assed) solution to help prevent hydro-locking. Their Bypass Valve sits up highr on the intake tube than the filter. Let's hypothetically say the filter get's submerged in water; the pressure in the intake tube drops suddenly as water is being sucked up the tube, the bypass valve opens to feed air to the engine upstream from the water.

There are a few problems with this product:
1) It does not help prevent water ingestion if the filter is not completely submerged because the valve does not open.
2) It has a recall on it's first design. (You canget the product #'s for the recalled bypass valves from AEM's web site.)

I personally have had two of these bypass valves fracture while in the engine, luckily no pieces from either of them were injested. AEM replaced the first one that broke (it was one of the first ones, so subject to recall). I will not bother asking for another replacement for my car. Injesting a plastic shard from a broken bypass valve can damage and engine too.

If you decide to go with a CAI system, and you would like a bypass valve for protection; I will offer to have AEM replace my Bypass Valve again, and mail it to you. If this interests you let me know.

Good Day.

 

Spend the extra 100 bucks on th AEM. Nuff said.

 

yah hey if that will fit a cai for an teg Ls iping, then i'll take it from you!!!!!!!!!!

 

trutuner
Early bird gets the bypass valve!

Email me your address.
AEM requires that I send back the old broken one, so I will have to have the new one sent to my house, and then I'll mail it to you. I would like so be compensated for shipping. We can work that out through email.