yep. bracket ripped out and pulled part of my tube with it. i don't know how or when, either. the bracket was tightened down, no room to move or bounce or put extra stress on it. i didn't even notice it until today when i had to take it off (foot-deep puddles in norcal after 1-night storm). i'm really pissed... there shouldn't have been a factor that made this happen. time for a new intake... and it sure as hell won't be an AEM>

 

I know about those norcal rains, I did the same thing the other nite. taking that CAI off.

I think AEM is still good quality, just hey **** happens. under stress on any other intake it might have done the same thing. sucks that broke. sorry

 

just use a duct tape to cover it,

 

 

Sounds good to me...

Duct tape =$1
AEM CAI = $181

hmmm... you chose

 

Or sell it, somebody else will duct tape it

 

Wrap some gauze around it! Poor man's bypass-valve.

 

i'm gonna flatten out the jagged edgs and put an aluminum shim on it

 

word, here at Honda-Tech, were not only smart, were inventive. sooo what I broke my CAI, I got duct tape. Hey, if duct tape cant fix it, it cant be fixed. lol
good way to save the CAI

 

its because of the welding of two diffrent thikness's of metals the intake tube is thin wall'd and the bracket is real thick when you weld somthing thick to somthing thin it melts the metal and makes it weaker which would have caused the metal to tear its just poor design

i noticed this on many aem intakes

just put a rubber gasket around it like the on that holds the intake to the t/b

 

THey have lifetime guarantee. Especially since you have a picture that you used the rubber grommet thing. Check their website and call them up, they are pretty good about taking care of their screw ups. They screwed me up a couple times, but they took care of it which is why I still buy their stuff. SOme places just don't care. http://www.aempower.com

 

Would a foot deep puddle be too much for the bypass-valve to handle?
I just put on an AEM CAI with the bypass-valve but I am curious as to what conditions the bypass-valve can handle.

 

The problem the bypass valve is that it works well when there is a complete seal of water in the intake....anything halfway and the water will still whip around and likely get into the engine...

 

If there was no room for it to move or bounce then it was not installed correctly. The rubber mount is there to absorb movement from the engine. A rigid mounted bracket will eventually tear like yours. That rubber mount you have there looks a lot like the stock one. If you used that, then that is why yours failed. The AEM one has a stud on both ends of the rubber isolator. I doubt that AEM will reimburse you by looking at the image. But they are good people so you might get away with it.

 

nah i had the same problem, the mount ripped right off the tube. i sent them the pictures and he (robert green) said he cant give me a new one cause it wasnt installed correctly (the person who installed it for me forgot to put the rubber pieces on...) so i just cut the pipe and made it a short ram.

 

I am with Markpaco on this one. If you do not use the AEM rubber isolator, there is no where for the engine movement to be absorbed, so you fatigued the bracket. If you try to salvage it (duct tape), be sure to change the mount this time. Sorry to see this happen to you.


[Modified by OE Tuner, 2:39 PM 11/9/2002]

 

The intake would have been fine had he used the given aem rubber mounting piece. There was no way for any movement to be obsorbed so after time it weaked the wall of the intake and that picture is the result. Its not design error, its user error. They give you pieces like that for a reason, use them.


[Modified by Kinmar_X, 2:53 PM 11/9/2002]

 

or you could save the trouble and DUCT TAPE it.

 

what trouble? i have aluminum shims in my garage. i'd have to go out and buy duct tape.

and it is my bad, i didnt know about the soft mount (the guy i bought it from on here didn't give it to me).

 

Two words, JB weld

 

AEM

 

you could just use epoxy for teh hole

 

like someone was saying above, cut it with a dremel and make it a short ram instead.