Its not that its really "that good", no aftermarket intake is "that good".
Most will produce a louder sound (especially if the VFAD and resonance chamber is removed) and too many people presume this as making their cars faster.
Some have proven to reduce HP, even though their site claims "huge" gains.
Only time an intake is going to help produce noticeable gains is when its combined with a midpipe and tuned (like with an AccessPort).

I've had the AEM and currently have the Racing Beat with duct.
Both were fine, but didn't give me noticeable gains, only noise.

 

true but i have to pass emissions and a midpipe wont allow that **** tennessee is so strick i dont know if hi flow cats will either haha idc about noise or really a huge hp gain cuz im keeping my car n/a indefinatly all im doing is intake pulleys exhaust and some springs but either way thanks for the harsh criticism haha if you end up selling your duct sometime im here to buy parts

 

cali is the worst state and i still runn midpipes

 

how do you pass then? last time i went through mine was stock but a friend of mine went through with a midpipe and they said go get that taken off

 

i havnt needed to smog it yet but when the time comes ill just put in the stock cat clear cell complete a few drive cycles smog it then put the midpipe back in

 

Thanks for taking the harsh criticism and not flipping out like some people do.
Proves to me that you'll do fine here on this forum.

Then might I suggest you save your money and NOT get the pulleys
I have the AP pulley... complete waste of money.

 

I keep my cat and every other year I install it for echeck.
Then I put the midpipe back on.

 

Then might I suggest you save your money and NOT get the pulleys
I have the AP pulley... complete waste of money.[/quote]


get em for the bling factor lol forget any gains haha

 

LOL... hey, if people want to get it purely for the "bling" factor, I have no problem with it then.

 

it was a joke but sadly thats what alot of mods for the 8 are lol

 

Agree about the pulleys. No gain and a lot of money. Most people I know that bought them ended up selling them. But if you want bling. They are that.

 

yea,

kinda like the sr intake..

beers

 

Wait a minute. You are associated with them?

 

LOL... he just copied a quote from the website.

 

no i quoted the website for all of that

 

nobody said there was anything wron with making your engine look good

 

i had the aem cold air and went back you stock the only dif i saw was the sound which i do miss and i felt a lil diff barley felt a diff maybe i just moved in the seat

 

what about the weponr dragon intake i am still new and havent figured out this rotory yet so any help is nice im looking into a weponr dragon or the neo any info on these two would be nice

 

 

Yes, please get the Weapon-R Dragon Intake, you will not be disappointed. In fact, I am using it on my car along with the electric-turbonator. I dyno'd it today and I got 343whp from just the two of them. All I need now are those chips from ebay and I'll be hitting the 500whp mark.

 

Crap, StealthTL is here... there goes my fun.

 

If you understood how the radiator worked, and how the radiator fans are positioned, you'd know that the air flows towards the rear of the car. The only time this might not be the case is if you're backing up.

With that said, the AEM CAI is located in front of the radiator, so hot air from the radiator isn't an issue. You can monitor your air intake temps using an accessport or scanguage2 to verify.

Anyone who is even slightly worried about hot air, won't be looking at short intakes that sit inside the engine bay. Especially if you remove any of the undertrays.

 

just either stay stock or get aem , mazdaspeed , or racingbeat anything else is sucking in hot air

 

Im running the RacingBeat intake with the air duct....and the only difference that i feel..or matter a fact i hear ...is that the RacingBeat intake is just a bit more louder and Raspy than the stock...yes is does pull in more cool air and keeps it a bit cooler......but i dont think there is any significant gains with this product...just an upgraded version of the cone inside of the stock airbox... other than that....i think its a pretty good product for the rx-8.....

STEVE

 

^ I do have the product and agree with that statement. It definetely has a slight change in engine pull, more noticeable is the added throttle response.

A tune via MM - Access Port would really accentuate the gains of the intake, and any supporting mod.