cold air intakes

[Quashish]

yup i guess. it says AEM on the black rubber tip part and has K&N on a little aluminum trim on one of the filter frills

[ivarcj]

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i beg to differ. when i was tuning my car with hondata i was getting high AIT"air intake temps" ...in the 140 range and after i relocated my filter to point down "close to the crossmember" my AIT's went down to the 106 range just that quick which resulted in better afr's and a more consistent boost

[deevergote]

Was the car in motion at this time, or stationary?

[ivarcj]

of course i understand that he isnt doing the turbo thing .... it would still stand to reason that the colder air .. the better, and moving it away from the engine heat just a bit or using a heat shield would help

[ivarcj]

car was in motion . i monitored the ait's while tuning

[branyoung92]

Thanks for the input gentlemen

[19dabeast85]

You want a dry filter. The filters that need oil have larger element openings and are dependent on that oil to attract dirt and trap it, which it does to an extent. But they dry out quickly and you end up with dirt passing through the larger element openings.

I like my Apexi power series filter, even after 10k miles on it when I replaced it the inside of the filter was very clean, a good sign. And my oil samples proved this difference. I have no clue of a relationship between AEM and K&N but I've read lots of reports on the AEM dry filters being great as well.

Another note about stock air boxes vs a short ram/CAI. K&N is OKAY imo to run in a stock air box. MUCH less dirt ever gets to the filter inside a stock airbox as opposed to a cone filter just sitting in the open. Start opening up/drilling holes in a stock air box and you change these dynamics. But for a bone stock car, K&N SHOULD be okay.....I have no proof of this theory but will fairly soon when I send in an oil sample from our CRV. It'll be a 10k mile sample of the oil and filter to really see how these "high mileage" interval claims play out.

[Leung]

You want a dry filter. The filters that need oil have larger element openings and are dependent on that oil to attract dirt and trap it, which it does to an extent. But they dry out quickly and you end up with dirt passing through the larger element openings.

I like my Apexi power series filter, even after 10k miles on it when I replaced it the inside of the filter was very clean, a good sign. And my oil samples proved this difference. I have no clue of a relationship between AEM and K&N but I've read lots of reports on the AEM dry filters being great as well.

Another note about stock air boxes vs a short ram/CAI. K&N is OKAY imo to run in a stock air box. MUCH less dirt ever gets to the filter inside a stock airbox as opposed to a cone filter just sitting in the open. Start opening up/drilling holes in a stock air box and you change these dynamics. But for a bone stock car, K&N SHOULD be okay.....I have no proof of this theory but will fairly soon when I send in an oil sample from our CRV. It'll be a 10k mile sample of the oil and filter to really see how these "high mileage" interval claims play out.

I'll wait and see the results of your test otherwise i'll just stick with my NAPA gold filter.