Originally posted by icedog75
This is a timely thread. We just bent two exhaust valves (cyls 2 & 3) and the assumed culprit is the INJEN CAI. An expensive lesson. Are the by-pass valves on the market of any value? Or is this just the risk you take with a CAI?
They only help if you regularly submerge your CAI in water. They also defeat the power gains of a CAI back to stock or less. So if you're just going for the look of a CAI and to say you have one then get the bypass valve. If you have any other reason to have a CAI, don't get one.