xrs injen cai sound/drivability

[IWAKE]

can anyone with injen or other cai comment on sound levels, throttle response and seat of the pants performance improvement? want only a little more growl (and power, of course)but not nothing obnoxious and bothering at cruising over (sometimes a little, sometimes alot) 130kph+/75mph+ish. thanks!

[kniterider09]

if you punch the throttle, you will hear the intake grow, and yes it is a sweet addicting sound. keep it below 3K rpm with a light foot and you will hear close to nothing. throttle response is good, a little better than the drop in filters BUT i think when you punch it all your mind diverts to is the sound so it automatically feels faster lol. is it ? i dont konw, maybe a little bit, more noticable at higer rpms (4K - 6K).

[IWAKE]

so it's ok cruising at say 80mph for an hour or so or is it going to drive me nuts? going to be pulling trigger on one very soon....

[PhatRoyale]

Originally Posted by IWAKE

so it's ok cruising at say 80mph for an hour or so or is it going to drive me nuts? going to be pulling trigger on one very soon....

Depends on your noise tolerance levels.

If you think an intake is going to drive you nuts, then I would recommend leaving it stock.

[thestone11]

Originally Posted by IWAKE

so it's ok cruising at say 80mph for an hour or so or is it going to drive me nuts? going to be pulling trigger on one very soon....

Yes, it won't drive you nuts, unlike a fart can ricer muffler...haha

[ZenithTheTV]

I dunno, at 80mph the growl starts to become noticible if you're cruising at that speed. Like they said earlier, if you're below 3k you dont notice a difference from stock. If you're above 3k with the engine loaded then its apparent. If you get into 3.5k, there's no way you're not going to hear it.

[CircuitJerk]

I really don't think you'll really notice much at 80 mph. At that speed even in the Automatic the revs are a bit high and even stock it starts to get a little noisy in the cabin.
I hardly think an intake will make a whole lot of difference until you go WOT, especially a CAI vs SRI..

I would not concern myself with that AT ALL.

[sinnaever]

I believe the old saying goes...

More Noise = More Power (or vice versa)

the purpose of a SRI or CAI is to get more power at High RPMs.

If you are concerned about noise, then adding power is not for you.

A car outfitted with I/H/E will be soo much louder than a car without.
It is part of adding power to a car.