Mazdaspeed CAI Vs Stock Air Box? question

[zigger]

(Want To Remove My Mazdaspeed Cai After Tune Is This Okay?, I want to put stock air box back on)


Hey guys.. I decided that I want to put the stock airbox back on the car for several reasons . A major one due to the Cel I get allll the time and the fact that when it rains my car runs like a bag of shit. I know someone who had a AEM intake (same as mazdaspeed inatke) and he removed it and alo felt like the car runs better and even felt faster and smoother?
My main question here is that I have had the car tuned with a 3" Tbe, CPE EMS, TMIC, BOV and the CAI. By removing the intake will I be screwing with my tune?
Does anyone actually think that these intakes really add power?

When I had my sti I kept the stock arbox and the few people I knew that ended up getting a perin intake or injen intake had nothing put problems , hickups and CEL when they went back to OEM airbox all those problems dissapeared
Thanks

[buit9110]

i don't think that putting the stock airbox will mess up your tune. replacing the inlet is another thing though.

[zigger]

what are ur thougts stock airbox Vs cai?

[bova80]

i think the stock air box is very restrictive. i would make your intake short ram before i put the stock air box back in. I currently have my fujita intake cut as short ram so it doesn't get fubar this winter.

[Target:STi]

are there alot of people having this issue?
maybe i will reconsider the cai

[chacon101]

Sorry I don't have anything really to contribute here except for that I haven't ever heard of a CAI causing problems like this. Are you sure it's your intake? Do you have a bad sensor maybe? A leak?

[wipedawg]

CAI can definitely throw a CEL. A lot of the time it has to do with the installation. If you don't unplug your battery when you put it in... the computer wont relearn and it may cause a CEL when it suddenly has a bigger cooler supply of air. My parents had a 02 wrx that we put a CAI on and within a day a CEL came on and the car ran horrible. We ended up buying a short ram of a different brand and NO CEL's and no problems at all. I have a 6 withthe v6 and an Ebay CAI. I instantly felt a huge positive difference with throttle response and of course it "felt" faster. Now it may just be the sound warping me into fast and the furious mode... but i like the sound and it feels like the car runs better as a whole. I went with the ebay model because it was very cost efficient. The fitment and mounting weren't the best in the world... but hey, 55 shipped is a deal. :)

If you still choose to go with the stock air box... at least upgrade your filter to a K&N to help your engine breathe better.

[TX Speed 6]

I have a Mazdaspeed intake on mine, and I only got CEL's during rain, and yet... it ran like shit... eventually hydrolocked!! found an easy solution though, got an Injen prefilter and now I have absolutley no trouble in the rain, it really works great

[Jonesy32]

I have had the Mazdaspeed CAI installed by the dealership since January of this year with zero CEL's or problems. Correction, I do get fuel cut every once in a blue moon when I am driving it like I stole it but not consistently.

[bova80]

I have a Mazdaspeed intake on mine, and I only got CEL's during rain, and yet... it ran like shit... eventually hydrolocked!! found an easy solution though, got an Injen prefilter and now I have absolutley no trouble in the rain, it really works great

so your engine blew?

[TX Speed 6]

so your engine blew?

Yeah... but it was during this killer monsoon season we had here in san antonio for a while. Not normal weather for us. I lucked out and insurance covered it, good thing too cause the engine cost 9,000 and labor was 2,000 (dealership).

[alpro5]

I have an 05 mazda3 atx and I felt the loss in power when i had the mspeed cai installed by the dealer. No cel just seemed sluggish so I went back to stock yesterday and noticed the better low end pull. I have a k&n filter drop in and now I'm looking at my $500 investment in my livingroom. Is it me or does the filter that comes with the mspeed look restrictive?

[TX Speed 6]

I'm not surprised the CAI didn't seem to help much on your 3, I've always felt cai's were kinda worthless on a N/A car. A short ram would probably work better in that case, imo. The filter on mine looked better (not restrictive) than the K&N filter on the intake I have on my Mustang, but I'm not sure what yours looked like.

[StickintheSix]

i have an aem short ram that throws a cel. the gains are noticable though, and i did try to reset the ecuwith no avail.