cai worth it

[tgv121281]

Aem Cai Completed

Guys, finally did it. The intake is in and its great. Only been 3days, but no problems so far. Sounds great, and runs great! Feels like the bulk of the power gains are between 2nd, 3rd, & 4th gears. Dont feel much low end loss. Install took a little over 2hours, but thats considering this was the 1st tim eI took a wrench to any car, and the fact that I was improvising since I dont have all the proper tools. I'm addicted and moving onto the next mod. Thanks to everyone for their support and encouragement. Also, gettin gback to the original topic of this thread, IMHO the $200+ bucks for the CAI is most def. worth it!

Here's some pics!

PS-If anyone need any info in ref. to this, let me know. I kept notes to ref. for future use!

 

[Da 6]

yep even if it didn't show gains it was worth the sound you make driving up and down the street.
(cool)

 

[Mazda3hatchback]

Actually it is a gain of 10hp. The dyno they use unfortunately doesnt show torque. I will try and scan the sheet for the full size to show that at the bottom, its miles per hour which at 70 miles per hour at 3000 rpm the car gained 10 whp. Look at the side where it says HP. They took a look at the dyno graph and noticed a big gain within that frame of 70 miles an hour and 3000 rpm. Going from 103hp to 113 hp. Now remember this is accelleration so as the car reached it peak the over all came out to 4.5 whp. If you know how to read these graphs take a closer look. They are definately basing it on HP because the 103 hp is exactly based from the HP graph on the right and the 113 hp as well. Take a pen and draw a straight line from the 103 hp mark across to the HP side and what do you have exactly where the 103 hp is. Same with the 113 hp mark. Draw a line straight across to the HP side and walla it fits right where the 113 side of the HP. Man you dont know nothing. It must be a coincedence.

 

[tgv121281]

Again, just a rookie and only judging by my butt, but I dont feel the biggest gain @ or over 70MPH. More like 40-60MPH. But hey, numbers dont lie I guess, just putting my 2cents in

 

[untouchablemz3]

^^^^dont cry please!

 

[Da 6]

K&N doesn't let in as much air as Injen and aem reason it doesn't send cels more airflow=fuel trim CEL INJEN is the main one giving us (I4 and V6) cels...mater fact they turned their backs on the 6 after their failure to drive the car more than 5 miles cause a V6 wouldn't make it halfway down the block withought throwning a code. I4 took 100 miles for initial and me every 3 weeks.

Yes chrome is heavy X4 (lbs added Per corner) As I said manny times you can't have go and show at the same time. Look at the 3600 lb speed 6 with 18's(gearing ratio on a 4cyl!) and every package we couldn't get here thrown into the car to "Make up" for it. Turboed but 1 second faster than a lightly modded 19K V6.(movng on)

My coment was if there was no gains shown for the sound it makes in top of 3rd gear it is still worth it(original topic at hand)

 

[tgv121281]

This is the 2nd time you get all bent out of shape over a simple opinion. Do me a favor and keep your BS to yourself b/c no one wants to hear it. Everyone and their mother has good & bad opinions about things, and thats great if you can learn to share them w/out sounding like a wannabe tyrant. This site is geared towards tuners sharing info w/ each other to help one another & of course for some bragging. Not to prove on eanother on every single issue. I'm telling you what I feel and think after I installed it on my car and I drove it for about 100miles. I dont have any problem w/ AEM, I dont have any cels, I have more power and I'm happy. So I shared that opinion WITHOUT throwing anyone under the bus. Seems like everyone here is on the same page except for you, so why dont you throw yourself UNDER your cousins Camaro rather than trying to beat him! (fuoops)

 

[Mazda3hatchback]

Chill man like I said making a point. And by the way that, was a mature remark. Was there anything in my post slamming on somebody. If you were on this board near the beginning of this year everybody practically were throwing cells like crazy with the AEM intake. And yes they did rush out there intake. INJEN and K&N took there time to do research and get them out when they knew there were not going to be any problems. You should know that all cars are different even if they are the same make and model. I just wanted to use my old camaro as a point. I dont know why your tripping but its got to stop. Your new on this board and your already causing trouble. Oh yeah DA 6, you right its either all show no go or all go. Once you start adding body kits, chrome rims or bigger wheels stuff like that your just taking away from your power. I love my chrome wheels because it really helps with the looks of the Mazda 3. Even though I gained 10 HP I lose most of it with the wheels. I just love the sound of the intake though. Its really nice. I dont know how the K&N intake is designed with a smaller tube but the size of the intake is a 2.5" pipe. That seems pretty huge for a I4. Is Injens bigger.

 

[AzMz3]

If you were on this board near the beginning of this year everybody practically were throwing cells like crazy with the AEM intake.

Thats not true at all. Being one of the first to get one and have not had a single problem. If you were to look at those post and read them you would see that if they did get a CEL it was installer error.

 

[Da 6]

? How do you not instal it right?