cold air intake
whats the best cold air intake for a 2004 accord ex 4 cyl. there are a lot of choices but which ones are best?
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aem or generic tube with K&N filter.
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i would have to say that the post above goes toward any accord. :)
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i have always trusted AEM. The crappy ractive pipes work, just you need a KnN filter OR anything besides the stock filter.
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i heard injen is the best, also,
i found this post on another forum while i was doing my own researches anyone have comments regarding the bolded part? Downside to CAI-If you dont get a bypass valve, or your an idiot, you cold get hydrolock=new engine. Both are easy to install, if you don't buy some major brand name they can be cheap, but at most, it might make your car sound a bit different with mybe three to four whp gains at most. AFE offers kits (I dunno if they have one for and RSX-S) that claim upwards of 20hp gains... The difference? Most short ram intakes keep the intake in the engine bay. If you want to do this, I recomend not spending more than the cost of a K&N drop in, then cut the air box so that the K&N is exposed. A short ram, for the most part, is just an open element intake. A cold air intake removes the filter from the engine bay (usually to near the bumper), so that it gets a better flow of cooler air from outside the engine bay. Cooler air is denser, so you can take in more air... In reality, you won't notice any real difference with either unless you get some software along with it to deal with an increased air flow. |
yea i was thinking of either getting a cold air or short ram, but the thought of getting hydrolock is a bad one...i know i can get that thing to stop the water from getting in...but how safe and effective is that?
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after reading this post, i am also very interested in what would work better.
CAI or SR Do the covers or other fixes for preventing hydrolock actually work? |
i have heard a lot of good things about the covers from people.but my question is that do you completely remove the air filter or just relocate it?
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from my own internet research
CAI is usually better, cooler air from outside rather than from engine bay but i've heard people using SR rather than CAI in turbo'ed cars...i forgot why though... as for hydrolock, i read that doesn't occur often, and only when it is submerged for a length of time, so pretty much, what i won't do even without a CAI, like driving through a flood |
I've done a lot of testing with my stock intake system and with an SRI.
I installed a K&N drop-in filter with the resonator deleted, then attached a short length of pipe to the air box. It definitely works better than an SRI, but I don't know about a CAI. It isn't blingy but it's cheap, and it sounds good without being annoying. By the way, the piping for an AEM is smaller in diameter than stock, until you get back to the resonator. I'm not kidding. |
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