In your opinions which short ram intake do you thing is better? AEM or Injen. and Im not just talking about HP increase, Sound, looks....everything.

No SRI, ONLY CAI

here comes the fights again.....

AEM vs. Injen

Greddy vs. Tanabe

DC Sports vs. HP

What about the:
SRI vs. CAI fight?

AEM CAI... all the way, check out the top of the list in reviews... says it all

yeah i will have to say aem cai i felt the difference in pick up after i changed from the sri in first , second , and third

i liked my injen cai and sri

Well I was definatly considering it but, 1 I live in florida ( VERY bad place to have a cai) and 2 my friend with a 02 lancer had one, it stated raining, and he filled up a cylinder ( car go boom, boom) so cai is out. and im trying to argue, but in your opinions which is better in sri form?

injen in my opinion is better in sri

you could always get a bypass too

injen no doubt! JMO

Oh jeez... its a filter on a bent stick. Pick one.
Apparently K&N is the "best" according to people... but that may give you a 0.0000001% gain over the other.

you can defintely feel the difference with a filter on a bent stick I am so used to my cai i took it off and put my stock one and it feels all ghetto and i dunno how to explain it.

my honest opinion, i like sri. just incase i doesn't suck up any water. and injen. i like the polished look

injen CAI w/ aem bypass valve

i was thinking of this setup myself. wonder how hard it is to install the AEM bypass on the injen, have to chop the pipe?

yes you have to cut the pipe, i think its like that for the AEM CAI too

yup same thing for the AEM I've got the AEM cai with the bypass its been workin out well, but definitely get a bypass if you get cai, CRUCIAL

Injen!

I prefer Injen.

AEM v2 for the most dyno hp to date

atleast thats what the website says

Thank you. They're all the same. The design of the intake is futile. The most important part is the air filter.

Bypass valves DON'T WORK.

And V2 is proven market hype.

The V2 seems like it wouldn't really make a difference over the regular AEM CAI. the two sized of pipe shouldn't change anything much. if anything you'd think it'd slow down the velocity.

The thing about the Injen is that it's metal. Metal gets really hot in the engine compartment. hot CAI = hot air, hot air = less power.
the AEM is plastic which doesn't get as hot as metal. just a theory.

SlammedBlueEM2: So are you saying that you would rather stay with the stock air box?

Boilermaker1: Since it is just "a filter on a bent stick," why did you buy an Injen CAI?

I'm just waiting for Injen to jump onto this thread.

I'm not implying anything about the stock air box but if you want me to compare....

All the CAI does is add volume under the hood and eat low-end power which can only be made up with a 3,500-4,000 RPM launch. Still the car is still no faster than bone stock if it made a 3,000 RPM launch.

I only like the CAI because of how it sounds which is the only reason why I prefer it over the stock airbox for myself which makes it somewhat of a lucky compromise for my car.

And boilermaker is right... it's just a stick with an air filter.

Bypass valves compromises with horsepower and technically don't work for ****. AEM only released it because people realized a CAI is a hazzard when submerged in water or sucks in water easier when going over puddles @ WOT but it doesn't work!

It was cheaper than the AEM at the time I bought it, I didn't have to go any where near the transmission or move anything to get it in there, and when I talked to both AEM and Injen before I bought it, AEM were asses and Injen was nice and helpful. It had nothing to do with what ever tiny gain it gave me, it was more an ease of install thing... but the filter enclosed in the bumper did help a bit.
But we're talking SRIs here, not CAIs. The SRIs all go to the basically the same place.... so they're basically all the same excluding the logo.

Injen Cai

wasnt there a chart/graph somewhere that showed the gain for each SRI/CAI? i think it was Injen vs. AEM. cna anyone post that up. itsll answer the performance part!

I know that the magazine TPR did a comparison of the two.