Best CAI's?
 

In your opinion what do you believe is the Best Cold Air intake on the market

As far as I know, the Stillen g3 cai's have the highest hp gain at 17.5hp. They also give the car a little bit more of a growl at WOT. I have a set, and installation was pretty easy. I love them.


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Z1 Silicone Post-MAF Intake Hoses

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Performance Air Filter - Performance Air Filter - Cosworth USA

Based on what? Power gains? Looks? I would love to see a dyno comparison to the G3s.

I would, too, but the consensus is that it's within a few horses. For $200, that's pretty good. It also looks stock, which to me is a plus, and doesn't involve cutting anything. Put all that together, and 3-5bhp really doesn't matter to me. I just like having better hoses and filters under my hood, really. Not so worried about making more power, per se.

:iagree: There's something to be said for not having to take your bumper off to clean the filter. Granted, it's only every 20-30k miles, but still.......

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stillen gen 3's /thread...

stock with drop-ins (no joke).

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Along with post mafs. It might only net at best 13hp to use this combination. But low end power loss is so minimal the car steel feels stock and the silicone truly keeps air cold which makes you feel some good boost at higher RPM's. CAI's recive more of the engines heat than post MAFS.

Like others have said, best is relative.
Most HP = Stillen
Good HP but easy install = Injen
Easy install and some HP = drop in+post MAF

Final choice is forced induction. :tup:

stillen!

I'd looked at all the options and was pretty convinced I wanted to go with the Gen 3s. Found a few threads on the post MAFs from Z1 and a drop in (I went with K & N) and decided to go that route. $300-$400 less than a full intake, easier to install / clean and at least part of the gains. And pretty blue tubes, too. :)
In fact, FedEx just dropped off my filters a few minutes ago so I'm going to do the install tonight.

the sad part about the drop-ins is that start to finish it only takes about 2min and no tools needed. not enough fun 'modding.' :icon17:

yah, i run post-MAF tubes too (HPS)... black.

Stillen's available for 11' Nismo by any chance?

It's not a mod if your front bumper doesn't come off :)


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LOL, kenchan, you can take off both airboxes and then replace the drop-in then put the airboxes back in place.

That at least sounds like a short-ram mod. LOL :bowrofl:

dude, pls specify it's regarding CAI about taking off the bumper, otherwise I'll have to take off the bumper even when I put on the springs, exhaust, tires&rims, spoiler and brakes etc....... :icon18: :icon18:

lol... yah, it's not a mod unless one has to cut things to make something that was suppose to fit correctly fit correctly. :icon17:


you mean with duct tape and all? :icon17:

That will do, but no matter what, make sure remove the front bumper first!! LOL

Back to the topic, will OP consider the K&N Short Ram, it's actually pretty good.

i was going to remove the rear bumper. :icon17:

What the Huck?!?!? :icon17:

Umm... I don't know how you expect to install any of that stuff WITHOUT taking the front bumper off... I mean that's just common sense. Jeesh... If it helps, I've just started reattaching mine with Velcro, I'll put up a DIY later on how to do it :rofl:


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That would have been just plain dumb, Kenchan.


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yah, i suppose... need to order up my blinker fluid and tornado intake blades.

cheer up Mr.Huck, jk there, LOL :icon17:

kenchen: (holding the mushroom filter, standing at the butt of his Z with the rear bumper off...) "So where does this CAE(xhaust) should go......? :confused: "

LOL

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mr.huck appears to be one serious dood. :icon17:

It is Mr. Ken "JC Whitney" Chan!!!!

i now sound american! :tup:

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Best CAI are the ones that came on your car stock, aftermarket are not really worth the minimal HP gains and price.

It took you a whole 2 minutes? Slow-poke!:icon17:

:icon18: I beg to differ.

Its was thoroughly debated in the discussion "are CAI intakes really worth the money and hp gains"

If you want to do something on the intake then just go with the K/N drop ins, not much money and they are close to what you will get with a full system.

If your not really going to change the whole exhaust system, then screwing with the intake really makes no sense. Its like going out for a run and putting on a jogging outfit and running in work boots, you really need to do the intake and the exhaust to experience any real world HP gains.

I agree with the intake/exhaust combo.

I think you will get the most benefit from:

Stillen G3
Motordyne M370
FI LTH
FI CBE

There...that should do it! :tup:

The issue I have with everyone's favorite Gen 3s is the metal tubes. Sure they dyno nice, but in a real driving situation you're just heating the intake air. Unless you're gonna go and wrap your "CAI," the stock plastic tubes or silicon post MAFs will insulate and provide a cooler air intake.

K&N panel filters flow fine for me.

Yes, I'm being lazy...
 

I'm sure there are 100's of threads on this, but since this thread was started I just thought instead of doing a lot of searching around, perhaps someone "in the know" could either just answer my question or point me to the right thread.

I'm not interested in doing the whole CAI / Exhaust thing right now. Maybe some day, but not now. I also think having to remove the bumper for cleaning filters is a bit more than I'd like to tackle.

But I am curious, has anyone done a dyno comparison of stock vs just drop ins? Everyone here is saying stuff like "you get a lot of" or "you get most of" the gains by just putting in some K&N (or the like) filters. I haven't seen any hard numbers here in this thread. So are we talking 2 hp? 5 hp? 7hp? 10 hp?

Thanks for letting me be lazy.

Cheers --- Bonzo :tup:

I say you go with the K&N drop ins and be done with it. The below is for the Nismo's, but you get the idea.

K&N 69-7078TS - 69 Series Typhoon Kits, Air Intake / Cold Air Intake

ha, yah, there is definitely a learning curve. :icon17: