Can you get the benefits of cold air intake without the excess noise? If not can you somehow reduce the excess noise and still get the benefits. I don't want any more outside noise enter in the car while driving. Or would this noise not make it inside the car? Thats the only reason I wouldn't install one. I don't want to have to install dynomat on the firewall just yet.
The throttle noise you can hear. If i install a cold air intake system in my car I won't be able to hear anything while inside the car or while on the highway?
wow dude wtf are you talking about LOL
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I've heard intake noise before, that great kissing noise, only when driving at low speed with the windows down on a narrow road thick with trees. and that was on a saturn, not exactly known for their excellence in NHV.
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video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJi6LHuKBDc&NR=1[/video] I won't be able to hear this in the car while driving windows up?
Walter wrote:video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJi6LHuKBDc&NR=1[/video] I won't be able to hear this in the car while driving windows up?
Nope. They guy is using a @!#$ty camera, that's why it sounds soo loud.
Yes you will hear the intake inside the car, in fact that's the exact reason I took the intake off my car, i got tired of hearing it.
I'm i the only one that thinks a DOHC 4-cyl with an intake and completely stock exhaust sounds like pure bliss?
wow...if the sound of an intake bothers you...you probably shouldnt be modding your car at all.
scott (section8cav) wrote:wow...if the sound of an intake bothers you...you probably shouldnt be modding your car at all.
Yeah dude you will hear some noise. I mainly hear mine at mid-high rpm's, but the two subs in the back quiet that out really quick!
scott (section8cav) wrote:wow...if the sound of an intake bothers you...you probably shouldnt be modding your car at all.
agreed.
grow a set or get out.
oldskool wrote:I'm i the only one that thinks a DOHC 4-cyl with an intake and completely stock exhaust sounds like pure bliss?
nope, 100% agreed. just wish stock piping was 3" and didnt flow like a kinked garden hose.
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Walter wrote:
also, that's not an AEM intake. it's a dryflow filter on a spectre elbow with corrugated tubing to the stock inlet. not smooth on the inside so it's got bad flow, ricer red, and looks like its about to fall apart.
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Walter wrote:Can you get the benefits of cold air intake without the excess noise? If not can you somehow reduce the excess noise and still get the benefits. I don't want any more outside noise enter in the car while driving. Or would this noise not make it inside the car? Thats the only reason I wouldn't install one. I don't want to have to install dynomat on the firewall just yet.
Walter..
I've been trying, hard, to think up how someone can wish to mod a car, to gain power, and sound stock.
The "noise" (which i consider music =P) happens only at high RPM. It produces a deep throaty sound on our cars. My guess though, is that you dont hit those RPM's very often. Probably because you dont like your engine making "noise."
Your car should sound how you want it to. If you aren't gonna enjoy driving your J if it has a louder inhale, then i wouldn't reccomend one at all. Just keep the car a clean stock J. There are plenty of them well-respected around here.
Good luck!
you could always try the trick that some car manufactures did to dampen that noise, they'd put a styrofoam disk in the intake near the throttle body. it slowed down the air so that you dont get that hissing noise from the rushing air.
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First of all he didn't said what benefits he was looking to get... more power? better fuel economy? Either way their are cars that are better at either one then a J with an intake and make less noise. I put an intake on my Honda for the fuel economy gain but the obnoxious sucking droan is the reason I took it off and sold it.
For all you guys who hate the way loud obnoxious fart cans sound... you guys need to grow a set of get out of modding cars. Wait a minute... saying that doesn't make any sense either does it? It's no difference.
For the hoard of retarded ricers replying remember, noise doesn't equal power. You make a car faster and/or more efficient without adding noise.
To the OP, it sounds like your best bet would be a K&N drop in but in all honesty even a proper intake on these cars does little more then add noise.
I'm just looking for all possible options to increase fuel economy. Is this worth it for the increase in fuel economy? The power increase the not the main reason i'm looking at install a cold air intake. Btw the only cold air intake I have hard was on an old honda civic which was quit noticeable. So I'm unfamiliar with what to expect from a cold air intake. I didn't know this had anything to do with common sense.
there another fix for your issue, run cheap narrow tires at their max pressure for the fuel mileage gain, the massive amount of road noise you'll pick up will more than drown out the intake noise.
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well if you are looking for better fuel economy you won't be reving your engine very high, and as long as your radio is above 10, you shouldn't really have a problem, but if you are going to run it hard, you will hear it
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Darkstars wrote:For all you guys who hate the way loud obnoxious fart cans sound... you guys need to grow a set of get out of modding cars. Wait a minute... saying that doesn't make any sense either does it? It's no difference.
i dont see how you can compare the two. one is a pretty loud droan whereas an intake is a small, subtle droan with the occasional whistle. just using the numbers as an example but IMO we'll say a 'fart-can' generates 50db of sound, an intake might generate 5db.
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Darkstars wrote:
To the OP, it sounds like your best bet would be a K&N drop in but in all honesty even a proper intake on these cars does little more then add noise.
I agree completly.
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z yaaaa wrote:Darkstars wrote:For all you guys who hate the way loud obnoxious fart cans sound... you guys need to grow a set of get out of modding cars. Wait a minute... saying that doesn't make any sense either does it? It's no difference.
i dont see how you can compare the two. one is a pretty loud droan whereas an intake is a small, subtle droan with the occasional whistle. just using the numbers as an example but IMO we'll say a 'fart-can' generates 50db of sound, an intake might generate 5db.
Of course you don't. Why does the level of the sound matter in this conversation? It's someones personal preference about added noise.
K&N drop in and cut open the air filter box a bit...you will get better flow than stock (but not near as good as a real intake) with virtually none of the performance intake noise.
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