As you guys know the person that I bought the car from put an AEM for an Integra LS on my car. I have decided that it is time to replace that piece with a real intake. In my honda experiance so far AEM CAI's have seem to be the end all be all of air intakes when it comes to hondas. In reading this board I have seen people say otherwise. My question to you is should I get the correct AEM, the ICEBOX, or something else? And why?

 

AEM because I love the sound.

 

Get the Icebox. if you really like the sound, you can take the top off of the airbox. it's much lower risk, and doesn't run as lean at around 4000rpm as the AEM.

 

Does the ICEBOX have any advantages over the AEM other than not running as lean at 4000 rpm?

 

more torque and more power across the board. The AEM might have like 1 or 2 peak hp on the Comptech but it's not like you really feel it. With my Icebox and advanced timing, these were my numbers:

172whp
125wtq

translated, that's like 205hp and 150tq at the crank.

 

the icebox has more low end TQ.. and thats all i remember. there was a dyno that comptech made comparing the aem cai and icebox but i lost the link.

 

if i just want high end hp's and am afraid to have hydrolock, should i just get aem's normal intake instead of cai

 

Depends.. kenji made more power with the AEM. But I've seen some impressive dyno numbers from the Injen CAI too. RealTypeR has one in fact..