I just picked up my 4th gen max 3 weeks ago. went from a third gen. I got the wsp y pipe and love it. So I finaly got around to checking my air filter and it's sickly dirty. So I'm just gunna buy an intake. But wich is the way to go. I like the idea of the cai, because I don't like to rev my car really high alot, and because I snowboard and filter is protected more than with the ingen. But does the ingen really have problems with flooding. And if I do get cai, should I get ingen, place racing, Or would the bomz be good as good??? I like the bomz price. Thanks guys

 

i'm pretty sure the place racing intake is the same as the generic cold air intake off of ebay. It's really nice, No problems with a clogged filter for me, its totally sealed off.

 

Y is the issue of snowboaring included in intake question?

 

i think hes concerned with the road conditions that would be associated with driving to a resort. even with the slush and snow, i dont think you would have a problem. ive never heard of an instance of anyone here hydrolocking their motor but driving through deep puddles or moving water could always cause all kinds of other problems.

 

if that's what you are concerned about by AEM bypass valve and just cut into the ebay CAI. it costs like $30 though

 

Hey thanx alot guys. I figured the ebay, and place racing cai would be fine in the slush and snow since it was in the fender. I really like the ingen intake and that's the one I was worried about. I think I read some where about flooding problems with the ingen.

 

bump... Ingen flooding problems????

 

I was actually worried about the same thing when I bought mine. I've heard about a few people (very few) having this problem with civics, but I never heard of anyone hydrolocking their engine in a max with one of these. I've had my injen since August and I haven't had any problems with it at all.

 

Yeah I've had my Injen for over a year and a half and I don't think it's ever been within a foot of being submerged. You'd have to be a complete idiot to drive through a puddle that deep. It seems like the lowest point on the filter is above the fog light holes, so... cmon, seriously...

 

amen, brotha.....

 

driving in snow, he isnt going to hydrolock his engine...that isnt needed.

he said that an injen was more exposed than a CAI and would get dirtier/more clogged......he is definately wrong there.

 

Even with all the intakes out there there is nothing that even comes close to the stock intake. Pulls harder from a stop than anything out there.

 

...wrong.

cold air intake would pull harder off the line because of the colder denser air fuel mixture

 

Wrong,
Do you have a CAI? The CAI pulls harder off the line than a hybrid. But the stock intake still pulls harder than the CAI. If you forgot the stock intake also draws cold air from the front of the car. I had pretty much VERY intake on my car and just went back to stock. Miss the growl a bit but getting my low end back is just much more important.

 

I never said the ingen would for sure get more dirty and cloged. That's why I asked. So should I not get an intake if the stock one Pulls harder is this true??

 

cai can to my hacked air box.

snowbaording rocks..try FLOW bindings. i love mine.. they are a littel heavy though..

write up on page 3 of my WWW.

 

no i dont right now, but i have run one.

stock intake goes through one single path, the air is pulled through a small plastic tray and a silencer. with that in the way, i dont see how it would be faster off the line at all. in the midrange and high end RPM stock is much smoother, and can haul *****.

yes, thats one thing aftermarket intakes are good for...noise.

 

The way I see it is that the resonator/box under the battery tray stores air for quicker off the line acceleration. The second I took it off my car it was slower off the line.

I'm in the process of making a custom intake. Have a couple ideas. One cheap and one expensive.

 

looking forward to seeing them..

 

I'd have to agree with SXN on this. The longer the intake pumbing(to an extent), the more low-end power. The shorter, the more high-end. That, and resonance, is the idea behind most variable intake manifolds. None of this is a big deal though. If you are looking for horsepower, intakes are not the place you'll find it. Granted, you will gain a little in some cases. It's been track tested by some of our members here that there is little to no difference of switching intakes at the track. There was a LONG A$$ thread about it last year. You all(BigD,SXN) hit the nail on the head when you said NOISE.

 

All that is true. Only problems with all the intakes we have is that each one of them has an advantage over the other in some way. Stock one being a top dog for me and the other 2 behind it. Stock one has the power in all the right places while the others have the noise. Only solution to this is to make one that is loud as hell but still as good in the low RPMs as the stock one. The CAI isn't as powerful in the low rpm range as the stock intake and it blows in the top end. The hybrid really blows in the low rpms but is great at high rpms. The stock on is right in the middle.