A friend of mine bought a AEM short ram intake for his 2.0 s/c but sold the car and now he is offering me the brand new intake for $150. i was gonna but an injen one right away but i want to know if these AEM ones are any good?

 

i dont think there is much difference at all. and 150 isnt a bad price either.

 

yeah its a great price for brand new. i just haven't heard as much about them.

 

Isn't the upper part of the AEM plastic? That would bother me if I was spending that kind of money on an intake.

 

no its polished somethin or other. the only big difference is that this one moves your intake up under the hood

 

AEM Short Tube Air Intake 05-07 Cobalt SS - 05-07 Chevrolet Cobalt SS Supercharged

if its this one it doesnt move it into the engine compartment it replaces your factory airbox in the fender well

 

looks like it. thats gay as ****

 

it still gets great gains. better than injen from what ive read

 

Do i keep my factory air box? its seems really restrictive but i live in alberta where we curently have 5 feet of snow and **** roads in summer so i figured it might provide some protection to the filter

 

Swapping my Injen Out myself and picking ZZP 3' Myself.

 

maybe a hydroshield?

 

yeah i could even make one. i think theres sum alluminium kickin around at work

 

details?

 

don't know i'd have to take a better look at it. i figure making a sheild would be easy tho i've TIG welded plently of aluminium

 

if youre worried about hydrolocking, you might even want to look at doing an airbox mod with an oiled filter. aem dryflows tend to absorb water whereas an oiled filter like k&n may not. and you could look into hydroshields. but airbox mods scream too

 

k&n the only company that does an oiled filter?

 

i dont think so. i beleive the injen has one as well. maybe others as well idk

 

almost all companies make oiled filters. thats why aem is special because they arent oiled. it keeps your maf clean but also can suck up water. i said k&n because they supposively filter better than any other company. i guess that is argueable though lol

 

can i run the AEM, or any other intake with the stock box and just pull that **** off in the summer?

 

if you want to do the air box mod look up the how to section. you can just get a 3 1/2 in or better yet, 3 1/4 inch. stock is 3.15 inches. i just got a cheap spectra filter and tightened it on to my airbox. it sounded good.

 

i dont think you can take off the bottom half of the air box. hydroshields are pretty efficient.

 

The best f***ing intake is the stock one with a K&N replacement filter. It lets out just enough supercharger noise to let people know you've got "work done". It also doesn't ever throw a CEL and won't f**k up your MAF placement.

 

i think i'll just get an injen or zzp

 

See my post.

 

now i do. but i think that it really comes down to personal opinion