Acoustically precise might be what they are trying to go for. Really the engineering problem here is sophistication. You have to crawl before you can walk. The bigger pipe came first and that was enough at the time. Perhaps acoustic precision is the next evolution in intake design and this is the first one to use it??

Really a sound wave is a fluctuation in the matter it is propagating through, in this case air, so there may be something legitimate to the sound frequencies phenomenon. The only questoin I would have regarding that is if the power would only be there through certain RPM ranges due to the frequency of the sound of the motor? If this is legitimate, there is way too much engineering to tackle in a thread like this. . .

 

Listen, all of you people can argue the intracacies of pipes and velocity and how fast the air is flowing. The end result is still the same, there is only SO MUCH you can get out of an intake for a Honda and AEM already topped out there power, they are just trying to make money.

If you want to believe all this physics bull****, then go ahead - sure there may be laws of physics I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT, because I never studied physics. But being a study of human bull****, I can tell you that all this arguementative behavior about AEM's Intakes is not healthy, and that AEM is here trying to make money - look at there website - holy ****

End of discussion.

 

end of discussion? wow, ur pretty heated man, a study of human bull****? you must be a lawyer. . . if you got a problem with the argument, don't post, its not your thread anyways. . .

anyways, if you don't know ****, you shouldn't talk ****. . . ur study of human bull**** doesnt make you a better driver or give you a better understanding of your car, it just makes you a bigger asshole on the board when you try to push it on other people. . .

this is a car forum, and sometimes a technical forum for people who know a thing or two about how they work, if you got a problem with that, check out www.ricerocket.com, they love guys like you with big mouths and no patience or tolerance for real knowledge.

Not a healthy argument? We haven't even so much as seen a dyno graph yet. Personally, I'll wait til all votes are in to end my speculation, and your vote doesnt count, slick.

 

by the way, not believing in this "physics bull****" is not a good way to learn about cars, because not one aspect of their design aside from the color of your interior fails to take into account the study of physics

maybe when you learn something about it, you can contribute to this discussion

 

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The V2 kinda reminds me of the Iceman CAI (I have one). The Iceman uses an "air horn" tube which gradually decreases in diameter to "funnel" air into the TB. It looks like AEM is trying to do something similar.

 

thats the idea behind it. if youve ever gotten to look inside of an intake manifold you will see that each individual runner into the engine is of a different diameter and lenth horn. they do this so that the turbulance inside of the manifold creats an even amount of air going into each cyclinder. otherwise one cylynder would be doing the majority of the work while the one opposite it will do relatively nothing.

 

the new AEM in my opinion is better, but only by a little. the gains would be a very low percentage. I dont think the gains is enough to be noticable unless the engine is heavily modded. for example, 1.5% gains on 125 hp car wouldnt be as noticable as on a 200 hp car. I mainly think its just a coolness factor. jux to say that u have the newest AEM intake that is ranked as the best, even if its only better by like 1 hp, its still the best.

 

Agreed. If I was still in my LS with the AEM, it wouldn't be worth the upgrade.

Now that I'm stock, I wonder how it'll stack up against a Comptech icebox. argh.

 

honda tuning (or scc) did air flow tests on 7 (i think 7) big intakes.. injen short ram performed better then the rest... and i believe it was the jackson racing filter that won that category... there is differences in piping and independents tests have proved it..