Intake question.

[crzn]

One of the things that has been on my "want" list is an intake. Unfortunately, I'm fairly green when it comes to tuning cars as far as what to look for and what different types of intakes there are and what the difference between them is.

Two I have had my eye on for a while are:

Mugen High Performance Air intake and the AEM CAI.

Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated.

[SuiteMike]

I personally have the AEM CAI and I love it, I got a video of my exhaust sound on
and you can hear the suction of the intake in background....mind you I have a tanabe exhaust on too so that sound is from both, if you like I can record a video of sound from inside the engine bay so you can get better sound of it not from the exhaust point of view.

EDIT: Feel free to make a request for the sound or pics of the AEM, dont be shy I got a boring weekend ahead of me lol

[CRaZee]

Lot of threads and info on intakes.. we have an Official Intake thread.. it just hasn't been updated in a while. I did a quick search for you.. here are some of the most pertinent threads on a variety of intakes....

http://www.crzforum.com/forum/afterm...ke-thread.html

Cold Air Intake

AEM Cold Air Intake System for your CR-Z -- $295.00 SHIPPED, IN STOCK!

K&N intake 69-1018

Black Label Fab SRI

Black Label CAI installed

Thoughts on BLF CAI

J-Marche Intake box

CRZ Intake Systems!

http://www.crzforum.com/forum/cr-zpa...ed-intake.html

[dripkit]

I would say that 1200 for the mugen intake is pretty outrageous - You're paying an extra 8-900 bucks for the brand name. I don't think most intakes will show enormous performance increases - maybe 5-10hp tops, most don't even get that high

[716atHeart]

Black Label has had a lot of good things said about it- plus its a small company that hand makes everything, which is cool.

[Scotty001]

I am kinda hanging out to see what this is all about..

Direct post link..

K&N intake 69-1018

[Ludercrz]

i personally kinda like the Black Label actually, cus it's a true CAI and not just a Short Ram like most of those listed above.

but since the rest of your car is MÜGEN I would keep it that way

[Scotty001]

Originally Posted by Ludercrz

<snip> but since the rest of your car is MÜGEN I would keep it that way

^ Gotta a point - If you have the dollars and want to keep it pure - go with the Mugen - probably can't go wrong with it since it is Mugen -

I might be mistaken - I would think absolutely no worries about warranty etc... No Magnusun/Moss fights if something goes wrong... If the service department installs it?

[Guizzy]

Originally Posted by crzn

One of the things that has been on my "want" list is an intake. Unfortunately, I'm fairly green when it comes to tuning cars as far as what to look for and what different types of intakes there are and what the difference between them is.

Two I have had my eye on for a while are:

Mugen High Performance Air intake and the AEM CAI.

Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated.

Dang that Mugen intake looks too amazing for me but me personally i'm not a fan of cold air intakes, short ram sounds waaaayyyyyy better and is much safer, but like what they said earlier if you have the mula the get the Mugen

[crzn]

Originally Posted by Guizzy

Dang that Mugen intake looks too amazing for me but me personally i'm not a fan of cold air intakes, short ram sounds waaaayyyyyy better and is much safer, but like what they said earlier if you have the mula the get the Mugen

Safer? How so?