Hi im planning to purchase a intake for my Rx-8 soon, so I was wondering which 1 do you perfer the AEM cold air or the K&N intake. The K&N says over 10 horses guarantee and I heard the AEM doesn't give much as horses but good sound.
If there is anything better then these two please let me know.

Thanks

 

You should search, we have about 4 intakes for our cars, I personally i have the AEM unit. & yeah it sounds reallly bad ***, The 1st gen K&N was actually pretty bad, it some cases ppl lost HP with it. The 2nd gen is suppose to be better.

Also you can look into the Racing Beat Intake system. or the HKS unit




But the main difference between the two you're talking about is that AEM is a CAI n k&n is an SRI.

 

That 10 hp guarantee is bogus. Some people tried to return their 1st generation K&N units, but K&N made them run through ridiculous hoops to get the refund. Bottomline, you will never get a refund from that company. The 2nd generation unit was dynoed in Import Tuner magazine and it got about 4-5 peak hp (about 3-4 across the rev range). I would look at the AEM & also the Racing beat REVi w/ Ram Air Duct.

 

Thanks so much you guys that helped alot and I do think im gonna go with the AEM COLD AIR!

 

yeah i would

 

Jusy an FYI Silver..your car comes stock with a Cold Air Intake system....

 

Oh really? I See

 

Here is a soundclip and vid of AEM posted elsewhere in this forum if your interested. (the link on the 6th post works)

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/aem-cold-air-intake-video-sound-70053/

 

i was just checking out the AEM website and they posted up some dyno graphs on the intake

http://www.aempower.com/product_intake_app.asp

 

Nice!!!!

 

I have the RB right now. It was suppose to be CAI w/ the ram air duct, but my front bumper doesn't fit with the duct. Kinda wish I went with the AEM cold air intake.

 

oo thats to bad well im planning to get the polish AEM cold air since the red and blue is kind of funky looking color on a silver 8

 

AEM is on my list of intakes I want to get for my car. Just not sure of how I'm going to clean the filter. I'm gonna have to take the front bumper off everytime I need to clean it.

 

I recommend the Revi if you don't want too loud.

It does a nice job smoothing the idle too.