Here's everything I know about intakes available for our cars:
Injen has a one piece chrome tube CAI, priced between $200-300 (Couldn't find a solid number on this one yet).
AEM has a Short Ram system (posted on the Corksport site)for $205. I trust AEM's name and reputation for making genuine power, but it's still a short ram...
Weapon-R has a Dragon Intake for our cars for $215. It's a short Ram system and uses a foam filter. If you want to make it a CAI, you can add the Ram Air kit to it, which encloses the filter and has an extension leading to wherever you want it to, for $75 extra.
MHP has a CAI in three models: chrome (short ram) $180 PLUS the cold air extension $100 (including an AEM water bypass valve). Total is $280. Their Carbon fiber CAI is for $329 (they jacked up the price, I was quoted $300 two days ago...damn), and a limited edition gunmetal version for $379!!!
From a performance standpoint:
1) Weapon-R uses foam filters, which are very high flow (GOOD). The down side is that a) foam lets in a lot of dirt into the engine, and b) a poor foam filter breaks apart after a while and little bits of foam fly into the engine as well! I assume that this system will have good gains. I don't like the idea of little bits of foam in my engine though.
2) Injen and MHP have very similar designs. The difference is that the Injen system plugs the MAF sensor into the chrome tube (correct me if I am wrong) and the MHP retains the whole stock MAF housing. My question: which design type would theoretically be better? Would simply using the plug-in MAf style be better for flow? Ups? Downs?
3)AEM is a trusted name, and are well known for developing systems with REAL power gains. However, it's a short ram system, and I'm not too partial to that. Don't you all think CAI are better for performance?
Looks-wise: I think the MHP intakes win hands down for good looks! All of the others feature a very professional look, but MHP's is the best in looks, in my opinion. But it's also EXPENSIVE!
Now, my question is this: since nobody has dyno'ed any of these intakes for power, from a theoretical standpoint, or based upon past experience, which intake would you get if you were me? I'm more performance oriented (and our poor cars are a bit weak in that department, so every hp counts for me!), so any help especially in that area would be nice.
I'm favoring the Injen or MHP personally, but that comes down to my above question of performance with different MAF setups since the rest of the intake design is very close.
Now I've heard before that Injen intakes are sometimes not the greatest for certain applications (some cars actually LOST power!), but that's just a rumour.
I've never heard of MHP until I got my MP3, so I have no idea what kind of rep they have. Do they tune intakes for real power gains, or do they slap together a custom intake just for looks (to attract us mod-starved folks)and hope for the best?
I've hopefully answered some of your questions on ntakes during my raving here, now can anyone please answer mine? Any opinions are welcome! I'm torn! Please help!!!
Injen has a one piece chrome tube CAI, priced between $200-300 (Couldn't find a solid number on this one yet).
AEM has a Short Ram system (posted on the Corksport site)for $205. I trust AEM's name and reputation for making genuine power, but it's still a short ram...
Weapon-R has a Dragon Intake for our cars for $215. It's a short Ram system and uses a foam filter. If you want to make it a CAI, you can add the Ram Air kit to it, which encloses the filter and has an extension leading to wherever you want it to, for $75 extra.
MHP has a CAI in three models: chrome (short ram) $180 PLUS the cold air extension $100 (including an AEM water bypass valve). Total is $280. Their Carbon fiber CAI is for $329 (they jacked up the price, I was quoted $300 two days ago...damn), and a limited edition gunmetal version for $379!!!
From a performance standpoint:
1) Weapon-R uses foam filters, which are very high flow (GOOD). The down side is that a) foam lets in a lot of dirt into the engine, and b) a poor foam filter breaks apart after a while and little bits of foam fly into the engine as well! I assume that this system will have good gains. I don't like the idea of little bits of foam in my engine though.
2) Injen and MHP have very similar designs. The difference is that the Injen system plugs the MAF sensor into the chrome tube (correct me if I am wrong) and the MHP retains the whole stock MAF housing. My question: which design type would theoretically be better? Would simply using the plug-in MAf style be better for flow? Ups? Downs?
3)AEM is a trusted name, and are well known for developing systems with REAL power gains. However, it's a short ram system, and I'm not too partial to that. Don't you all think CAI are better for performance?
Looks-wise: I think the MHP intakes win hands down for good looks! All of the others feature a very professional look, but MHP's is the best in looks, in my opinion. But it's also EXPENSIVE!
Now, my question is this: since nobody has dyno'ed any of these intakes for power, from a theoretical standpoint, or based upon past experience, which intake would you get if you were me? I'm more performance oriented (and our poor cars are a bit weak in that department, so every hp counts for me!), so any help especially in that area would be nice.
I'm favoring the Injen or MHP personally, but that comes down to my above question of performance with different MAF setups since the rest of the intake design is very close.
Now I've heard before that Injen intakes are sometimes not the greatest for certain applications (some cars actually LOST power!), but that's just a rumour.
I've never heard of MHP until I got my MP3, so I have no idea what kind of rep they have. Do they tune intakes for real power gains, or do they slap together a custom intake just for looks (to attract us mod-starved folks)and hope for the best?
I've hopefully answered some of your questions on ntakes during my raving here, now can anyone please answer mine? Any opinions are welcome! I'm torn! Please help!!!