before i order an intake...

[solara90]

Id just get an injen, and spend the rest on a rsb or some other performance upgrade

[unbalancedwood]

Ive had a lot of intake setups like a few members here too...

1. Replacement paper filter on stock intake
2. K&N on stock intake
3. CPE bought used on the forum @ 350$ I think
4. Injen SRI
5. Injen SRI with extension
6. Back to K&N filter & stock box

In that order. For my experience I think that AFTER having the CPE I found that the Injen was a waste of $150 and I did end up selling that and going back to my K&N...

The CPE was a blast to drive and nothing is like it on a NA car! RAWRRR!

[crispone]

Ive had a lot of intake setups like a few members here too...

1. Replacement paper filter on stock intake
2. K&N on stock intake
3. CPE bought used on the forum @ 350$ I think
4. Injen SRI
5. Injen SRI with extension
6. Back to K&N filter & stock box

In that order. For my experience I think that AFTER having the CPE I found that the Injen was a waste of $150 and I did end up selling that and going back to my K&N...

The CPE was a blast to drive and nothing is like it on a NA car! RAWRRR!

^^^ By virtue of your experience based on EVIDENCE of comparison "A" -vs- "B" (...heck... "C", "D", and MORE alphabet, for that matter!) I hereby knight thee WORTHY of making the most educated assessment of any of us in here. (With the exception of anyone ELSE with similar experimentation...)

KUDOS for your journey and the value add to the rest of us from an objective basis.


Once again, expenditure of money -vs- gain is purely subjective in the end... but if PERFORMANCE GAIN is the agenda, the solution is simple and clearly evidenced here.


-crisp

[crispone]

Good argument Crisp.

My opinion stands however, that the CPe is not worth the price of a NEW one.

We need someone to compare actual dyno numbers between Injen and CPe to figure out the differences in gains.
I would love to see that.

Thanks, and I respect your opinion, too.




-crisp

[Midias]

I have had

1. stock
2. stock with K&N filter
3. Ebay intake
4. HKS shortram
5. HKS CAI
6. CPE

by far CPE was the best and ebay was the worst.

That being said if you want a cheap intake get the OBX intake it is about 70 dollars and every bit as good as injen. Don't get the ebay intake.

[Midias]

CPE in car sound clip

[x99suplarax]

if you have the window down.. with the cpe you can hear the car sucking way more air in..

[unbalancedwood]

My Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfJsQUFpRM

[Dawgz]

wow, so much misleading info in this thread.

[yaddadaimsayin]

my first mod on my solara and officially what got me into modding cars. i'm too conservative of my money to even buy a used set of rims or spend 3 bills on some new grills, but i do not regret my purchase of the cp-e one bit.

the gen2's need the boost!

[SleeperSolara]

I've had:

1. OEM minus the snorkel behind the fuse box.
2. K&N air filter and OEM box still minus the snorkel behind the fuse box.
3. CP-e intake wit the AFE air filter.
4. CP-e intake wit the K&N air filter.

I've liked the CP-e intake wit the K&N air filter, cause you can hear the suction noise so much louder, and you don't have to deal wit a dry air filter within a week.
Also my friend says that he hears more intake than my exhaust.

[Mr_Krispy1183]

Also my friend says that he hears more intake than my exhaust.

Ahahaha, I know EXACTLY what you mean. My Injen/UPFD intake has done more for my car sound-wise than my GReddy EVO ever did. Still love my exhaust though, might switch to a GReddy Ti-C muffler in the near future.

I won't jump in on this intake shootout other than to say that I'm quite happy with the performance from my Injen with the UPFD extension (although I do need to get re-tuned S-AFC settings, since I'm a bit more rich with the overbored throttle body). I'm not one to knock the CP-E either, just that I've owned my intake nearly as long as the car (8+ years), when it was the ONLY viable option.

[99BlackSandv6]

KUDOS for your journey and the value add to the rest of us from an objective basis.
-crisp

Except that his opinion is not actually objective. It is still as subjective as mine.
That's why we need some real dyno information, so we can all quit arguing and giving our opinions, and get the facts.
That way we can just have the numbers and let each person decide for themselves whether the intake is worth the price tag.
Until then, I think I'm done talking about it.

[unbalancedwood]

I think weve seen dyno numbers on the cpe, its deff. around 15hp for a gen1....redgen1 comes to mind first because hes local to me, he dynod w/ the cpe...

[crispone]

KUDOS for your journey and the value add to the rest of us from an objective basis.
-crisp

Except that his opinion is not actually objective. It is still as subjective as mine.
That's why we need some real dyno information, so we can all quit arguing and giving our opinions, and get the facts.
That way we can just have the numbers and let each person decide for themselves whether the intake is worth the price tag.
Until then, I think I'm done talking about it.

Objectivity by virtue of having EXPERIENCED each of the options... not QUANTIFIED with respect to absolute performance gains. His OPINION is an OBJECTIVE (measured as preference when compared) and not SUBJECTIVE (emotional and without experiential basis) opinion.

...I think I was almost yelling!


I stand by my KUDOS.




-crisp