I know i'm going to get flamed for this.
Not ever going to boost the car. Running right now a AEM short ram intake. Love it. Going to add the CAI section but wanted your opinion on the intercooler intakes. Is this in anyway a mild form of forced induction? Who makes? I know of arospeed and R1.
Thanks

 

they're not IC's

they're front mount... filters.


they are gay, although Shadetree Mechanic put one on their project civic and got like nice number of hp out of it on a DX...


aerospeed is the only one i know if.

no its not FI at all... in any way shape or form.

 

My bad. Did a intercooler intake search on msn. Came up with both thing. Any performance gain??

 

the front mount Cold air intakes.... same gains as a regualr intake.

 

the design of them imo makes no sense

putting a paper filter low in the bumper exposed to rocks and debris will tear it up in no time

however to prevent this they include a plexiglass blocker that goes right in front of the filter. . .which pretty much nullifys any gains in performance over a regular cold air intake

rice

 

i thought about getting one at one point, however the price isnt worth it...just get an AEM cai or something similiar

 

they look just plain retarded

 

poor design, and you could come up with a better ram air intake design yourself for free...

 

I've done a homedepot grill cover. Cut out all the plastic inserts. Turned out to be very strong. Zip-tied the piss out of it. The only time i'd use the cover is in fowl weather. Learned to get the bumper cover on and off in like 2 min.

If i do a CAI, i'm cutting the plastic on the bottom of the car to get more direct air. To me the plus of a bigger filter and more direct air.

 

Not to mention that if you submerge that into water without having a bypass filter, you're motor will be fawked.

Not worth it, ugly and ricey.