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[riflman01]

Anyone have any experience with these cold air intakes. I found them on Jeg's for $105.99 and was wondering if they are any good.

[BuckFeverZ]

[DofD]

There's little actual difference from one cold air intake to another, other than looks. There 3 types of intakes, hot air (air from engine compartment = not good), warm air (mix cool and hot = better), and cold from the fender (best). The GM OEM intakes are cold air intakes. Put in a higher flowing filter and remove the resonator chamber and you have what an aftermarket intake will give you (besides the look).

[05silvycrew]

i see them advertised on the SPEED channel, but I don't have any personal experience with them. Do you know if they're oiled or dry filter?

[riflman01]

I'm pretty sure they are oiled because the sell the cleaner and oil to clean them and re-oil. I thought it was a bargain at that price.

[05silvycrew]

 

 

 

the shielding looks a bit scrappy. but, that intake will achieve everything a K&N or the like will, for $200 cheaper. Worst case scenario, change the filter on the end to an AEM or other dryflow filter and you're still $150 ahead of one of the other intakes. this actually might not be a bad alternative to the EXTREMELY over priced name brands

[riflman01]

There's little actual difference from one cold air intake to another, other than looks. There 3 types of intakes, hot air (air from engine compartment = not good), warm air (mix cool and hot = better), and cold from the fender (best). The GM OEM intakes are cold air intakes. Put in a higher flowing filter and remove the resonator chamber and you have what an aftermarket intake will give you (besides the look).

 

 

Where is the resonator chamber located? I have a K&N filter in my OEM box and i'd like to give this a try before buying a cold air intake. Thanks for the help.

[blackgold]

for that, you would do the partial intake kit (just the tube from filter housing to TB) if you look at your intake tube, you'll see a big box atatched to it. That's supposed to baffle the engine sound a bit and supposedly robs some HP. I am going to do the tube myself at some point too.

Brian

There's little actual difference from one cold air intake to another, other than looks. There 3 types of intakes, hot air (air from engine compartment = not good), warm air (mix cool and hot = better), and cold from the fender (best). The GM OEM intakes are cold air intakes. Put in a higher flowing filter and remove the resonator chamber and you have what an aftermarket intake will give you (besides the look).

 

 

Where is the resonator chamber located? I have a K&N filter in my OEM box and i'd like to give this a try before buying a cold air intake. Thanks for the help.

 

[riflman01]

for that, you would do the partial intake kit (just the tube from filter housing to TB) if you look at your intake tube, you'll see a big box atatched to it. That's supposed to baffle the engine sound a bit and supposedly robs some HP. I am going to do the tube myself at some point too.

Brian

There's little actual difference from one cold air intake to another, other than looks. There 3 types of intakes, hot air (air from engine compartment = not good), warm air (mix cool and hot = better), and cold from the fender (best). The GM OEM intakes are cold air intakes. Put in a higher flowing filter and remove the resonator chamber and you have what an aftermarket intake will give you (besides the look).

 

 

Where is the resonator chamber located? I have a K&N filter in my OEM box and i'd like to give this a try before buying a cold air intake. Thanks for the help.

 

 

 

I figured that was the part mentioned. I had checked that out and it looked like it would hurt air flow.

[matt3]

I did my CAI with just the Airaid MIT and a AEM dryflow replacement filter. Total cost around $150.

[Ryan00TJ]

Yep, You just need the Airaid MIT smooth tube from the stock air box to the TB. The stock paper filter can flow plenty of CFM's for these motors at 6500rpms. A K@N filter in the stock box in my old 420rwhp LS1 Camaro SS was only worth 2 rwhp vs the stocker. That's well within dyno variance so it could have really been worth nothing. A stock Gm truck with 250-280rwhp is not going to even start needing more CFM than what the stock filter can flow.