I have one with all parts if interested New just bought it, took out of box only

 

120 isn't bad. You can complete the kit for less than $60. The v2 is a great intake too. The resonance tuning helps midrange a lot!

 

this kit also looks like the org. no duckbill to release water in the tube

 

WHAT??

Cold air intakes help the engine produce more power because they draw in 'cold-air'. Are you saying there is no benefit drawing cold air? This is proven and so is the V2.

 

I have this intake on my 02 AP1. I dyno 194whp w/ no fan on front of car on a hot day (testing friends portable dyno). I have mine wrapped w/ heat wrap for the track. I will say after a session, the intake manifold gets extremely hot. Once I start driving and pull in the pits, if I touch the manifold, its completely cold again. Clearly the air coming in is NOT hot and I'm NOT losing HP. I also live in Cali an its been raining like crazy for days, go in a puddle w/ the throttle open and it will stall. drive around puddles and your fine. this is w/ my brake duct cut out and holes drilled from the radiator area as recommended by AEM. Take it or leave it but that's my review on it.

 

Thats alot of effort to protect the TOP of the intake rather than the bottom...
Why not just go with http://www.autoanything.com/air-filt...A2582A0A0.aspx

i mean def. for a diy.





and And yes although this did happen to me i WAS driving that day without fender lining which contributed alot...Just read through that thread and it will give you the low down on what to do in case you stall out in water...
I know that my Injen CAI got alot of soakage since on an Ap2 the bumper vent leaves it pretty open, and i have suffered a bogging/choking on the car several times in heavy ran without going through puddles, so personally when i rebuild my engine, the first thing i am going to do is sell my CAI and most likely get a Comptech. Ill sell you the complete Injen one for 150 shipped! Freshly cleaned

 

yeh when i had a v2 i would look inside from the cut out and see the aem filter was damn near soaking wet. so i thought to myself, hey that's not good. lol my friends tried to convince me to keep it but i told em stuff it coz it's gonna fock up my engine sooner or later. so yeh i wouldn't get it.. period.

 

There's no harm in the filter getting wet, or even VERY wet. It's only when the filter gets completely submerged with the car moving in gear that it will suck GALLONS of water up 2+ feet into the engine. If the car is just idling in neutral, it will stall before it can develop enough vaccume to suck enough water up the pipe. That's why you need to coast through deap puddles with the engine idling. If the filter gets submerged for a second, then you'll need to drive cautiously until you're sure the water is back out of the intake. If there's just a liter of water in the intake, you would have to do full throttle at high RPMs to get it up to the engine, and even then, it probably wouldn't be enough water to damage the engine.

 

[QUOTE=gernby,Dec 23 2010, 07:50 AM] There's no harm in the filter getting wet, or even VERY wet.

 

nice!!! ima get one soon