I got the heat shield with mine.... it helps keep the filter clean and may help pull some cooler air in but it's PITA to get it mounted.

 

oh, we agree on one thing

 

You two guys are like Jeff Daniels and Jim Carey in Dumb and Dumber.
"You wanna hear the most irritating sound in the world?"

For $hits and giggles, check out Weapon R website and look at the dyno comparisons between a short ram WAI and the CAI setups. The test a bunch of other brands against the Weapon R. Even though it makes the most HP, the difference in HP is negligible between all of them. It's too small to notice except on a dyno.

Be aware if you spend the bucks on the Injen ( or the Weapon R like I did ) or any of the aftermarket intakes, you are paying for intake noise and underhood looks, not HP. My opinion is the gain in HP is so small, you can't consider it part of the purchase!

 

I agree, and I already said that more than once. If there had been an injen knock-off 1.5 years ago I would have bought that instead, but there wasn't so I waited and bought used and saved money that way. All I did was throw away the old OEM airfilter and buy a new K&N (bigger) and it's been humming along nicely since then.

 

and i said the same thing - intakes dont do much for performance.
i still want to know why you bought the intake you did? it wasnt for performance (we both know that) you didnt get it for the sound (all intakes give that sound) the only things left are "looks" and so you can say you have an injen. so which is it?

 

*At the time* I was young and naive and thought intakes actually gave their advertised "12-15hp" so I bought it. The more I read the more I realized it was 12-15hp "in combination with" other mods (y-pipe, exhaust, etc), and I figured I might be doing some of those some day so I kept it.

When I swap it back to stock before bringing it to the dealer (very mod-unfriendly dealer) I do notice a difference other than sound but it's not 15hp difference and it's not like all of the sudden it's a dog...it's just different.

Since the prices went up ~$80 on a new one, and since I got a new (very expensive) hobby, I've actually toyed with selling it. But it's been on there over a year and now I really like the sound and miss it when it's swapped back to stock.

I specifically bought injen because it's on the other side of the engine so you can't hear it as much if you're below 3500-4000k rpm, and my wife wasn't too keen on me modifying the car while under warranty. She never gets the car over 4k rpm so she doesn't really know it's there. One day she said after driving it "I don't want to know what you did, but you did something to the engine, didn't you?" and all I said was "never take it to the dealer without telling me first."

 

So i should not spend $ and buy a aftermarket intake, leave it stock, my mechanic also advised me to not drop the car another 1inch... he was okay with the strut bars and rear sway bar.. what you guys think..

 

dropping the car a inch is no big deal i have the h&R springs on and dits not a problem at all, would like it dropped a little more

 

Now this is a tru cold air intake:

http://www.customenterprise.com/view.../vts/design004

 

You want an intake and you want it lowered? Get an intake, and lower it one inch...don't let anyone else make any decisions for you.

 

If im getting a bottle it will be venom nitrous flowing into my intake.