WhiteWu

does the short ram intake make the same cool sound that the AEM cold air intake does?

RidinLow

Yes, any intake element exposed to the air will.

niedejb

If youre gonna spend the money, go for the full cold intake. If youre worried about water get the bypass thats available.

AEM did an awesome bypass test on their site (http://www.aempower.com/). I'm a believer.

acuradan69

I recently changed from a short ram intake to a cold air intake. I didnt seem to notice that much of a difference at all. From personal exerience, the short ram has a much more noticible 'growl' to it under heavy acceleration, I guess its due to the intake being closer in the engine compartment rather than down in the wheelwell. The location of the filter is really not that much farther away from the short ram. So, if you didnt buy a intake yet, you might as well get the CAI. If you have a short ram, its not worth it to spend all the money to convert for difference thats not really noticible.

DAN
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nalaree007

I bought the short intake kit last year, but returned it because it didn't quite fit right (it's actually made for the Accord v6, even though it has the same engine, the airbox is different). The only companies that I know of that make intake kits specifically for that car are Weapon-R and Nakayama. The thing that I have to warn you about any of the intake kits that have a metal pipe is that they are quite loud. It sounds pretty cool when you're moving, but it hums loudly at idle. Since I live in a quiet neighborhood and the car being a luxury coupe, I opted to just use a drop in K&N airfilter. I also thought about putting in a freer flowing muffler, but because of the aforementioned reasons, I'm ambivalent. However, if you just want maximum performance and don't care about the sound, then go for it.

haiduc

welcome to the board man.

the cold air advantage is just that. no hot air from the engine going into the intake. my car was put on a obdII scanner and showed 168degrees for the intake temp with a short intake.
just food for thought.

WhiteWu

thanks for the replys guys,

I think you all have convinced me to go with the cold air intake instead of the sort ram. The only thing I am wondering now is if I can install the cold air intake at home, or if it will be too hard to get to

VXCL

its real easy. ill have pics soon and how tos on my site. u can always give me a call and ill walk u though it. my # is on my site also.

melo72

Welcome to the club.

You should be able to do it at home, it's pretty easy. However, if your doing the CAI and taking out the resonators, you will have to take off the right driver's side tire and pull it out from the wheel well. Just make sure you have the room to do that. Do a quick search for the instructions since a lot of people have posted them here before.

1StGenCL

You can pull the resonator out without removing the tire. Im not sure if you need to remove it for the CAI though