Hey guys been reading about CAI Vs. Short ram and decided to just do a Short Ram (Red to many posts about people sucking up water into engines). So question is a name brand filter going to be better then the filter i have now? Of course they CLAIM to be on the same Page with performance as AEM and other intakes. (But you know how that goes) Pictures of what i have now, i know medal tubing will be better then stock housing. Would i see the same performance from Spectre compared to AEM? Or should i just get the tubing from auto zone and put a K&N filter at the end becuase that will be better? Or just do this setup and it will be about the same as AEM Short ram.

Pictures i have now pretty much much removed stock airbox, and put the filter on end of stock housing.





Should i just buy the medal piping and keep this filter and it will work just as good? Or Buy the piping and return this filter and put a K&N at the end or buy a name brand like AEM.

 

What kind do you have now? If it's from ebay, throw it out right now. I highly reccomend a K&N. I'm pretty sure that the metal pipe is better than the stock black tube. I can't remember why, but I'm pretty certain of it.

 

Its this http://www.spectreperformance.com/#HOME

 

I don't know anything about that company, but the site looks very professional. As long as it's not a no-name $3 filter off ebay. I suppose i would keep that one and just buy some metal tubing to replace the stock tube. Brand doesn't matter for the tube. I actually bought the cheap ebay tube and put a K&N on the end.

 

It really won't make that much of a difference aside from a cool sound - which you already have by removing the airbox.

 

NO cheap 3 dollar filter for me thanks LOL. this one has a 100,000 miles or 10 year warranty on it that pretty good from a small company..

 

I'm running a cheap ebay filter right now. Why is this bad? Would it be good to run a AEM filter? Thanx

 

The only smog-legal option for California cars is to replace your ebay intake with a CARB-certified intake system.

That narrows it down to the major brands: AEM, Injen, Comptech, etc.

The difference between a CAI and a ducted short ram is nominal.
I would choose a short ram intake , for the additional insurance against water ingestion and hydrolock.

 

Unless you plan on driving your car into a lake you are going to be fine with a CAI. I drove from Syracuse to Albany in pouring rain, a 2 hour drive, and was fine, and when we had the flooding last spring here in the northern Boston area I just stayed out of the way of larger puddles and waded through the ones I could not miss slowly and nothing happened.

 

You're probably lucky because there are people who have driven through shallow puddles and bent rods.