i am just about to order a AEM CAI and i allready have the resinator out and i like the growl i get but once i put my AEM CAI with the k&n cone filter.. how much louder will it be? and will i feel and performance gain?

 

It is louder, for me around 4000 RPM in particular, sounds real nice. And I felt a little more "get go" or whatever you wanna call it, heh.

 

It'll be a lot louder vs. just having your resinator off. At idle and low RPM you won't notice much, just the wooshing sound of the air, but when you punch it, that sucker growls. Performance wise, I think the sound equates more towards thinking you are feeling better power.

 

louder or deeper? when i had my reasonator out.... it was really deep, almost to where it was annoying..... because the deep noise MADE the car sound faster, although it moves so slow.

 

Both

 

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I got one, took it off after a week. Just made noise more than anything. I lost some low end torque, and at the upper end all it did was make lots of noise. I don't see what's cool about your car roaring all loud when you get on it to merge etc, bu you are going just as fast as the quiet cars haha It would be one thing if all that noise was accompanied with noticeable power gains.

Maybe it's because of my autotragic, but I just didn't like it.

It did look good in the engine bay though

 

hey jschmid love ur engine very nice and clean thats how i want mine, do u know how much money will i spend to have it clean and painted same colors. thanks

nmm i only have a intake make noise when i want it doesnt feel good to be going like 20mph and making so much noise and there is a bike next to u going faster lol, yeah autotragic make so much noise and so slow unless u put it n 1st hehe.

 

I just got my replacement CAI back from AEM. I had one that broke and it had the bypass filter. I like it a lot more with out it. I was driving around the past month with the stock air box and a paper filter. There definately was a difference when I put the CAI back on. If you've got a 5spd you'll notice it.

 

sound wise, the 5spd will deffinately notice it more as it'll chirp every gear change....whereas in us automatic owner's cars you barely notice the thing...especially if you had an exhaust before hand. It deepens up the engine note, but the best thing is it removes that annoying stock "rattle" that I used to get when I had the stock intake box. I dunno if anyone else knows what I'm talking about...but anyhow, I've been through about 5 different intake setups.....the CAI is deffinately deeper, and deffinately makes for a quicker Accord since the power band is so low in the range......where we actually are making a little power ;o).

- Nathan