ok i have checked on several different site and looked all over the net i have found Fugita, AEM, K&N, RRM, and several others that are not rememberalbe but all make claims of greatness.

the RRM claims to make about 6-8hp gains with a SRI for the CVT
rrm also has a AEM intake also for manual will it fit on CVT? if no why?
aem claims to make about 10hp and 11 trq for 300 bucks
K&N is also 300 bucks and gives about 6-7 hp
and the fugita is a SRI and it claims 8-9 hp on a dyno

what do you think i should pick? i kinda like the AEM one from RRM but i need some more info so i can pick the right now.

 

AEM doesnt fit the cvt u need to relocate the transmission controller only injen provides a CVT relocation bracket with their CAI

if you like the CAI i would go with injens CAI for the 2.0 2008 lancer u should be able to get it for about 275 shipped.


FUJITA sri is garbage.


if your gonna get an SRI get either k&n or RRM. i like K&N design.

 

where can you get a AEM for that? on ebay its 300+ and i cant find one for that cheap. what is the cvt relocator? i need more info.

 

^ do some research. the cvt relocator comes with the injen CAI. if you have a manual AND u dont know what a cvt relocator is or why you ned it you shouldnt bother with the AEM intake because it doenst come with one only the INJEN ONE does.

 

Do the others show you a dyno chart? The only one with a chart that I've seen is K&N. They are typically the most conservative when quoting HP gains - and they back it up with actual charts. I've also spoken to folks that know people working there... For that reason, I find them most credible... I also like the way K&N designs the heat shield on their CAI...

Plan to put one (K&N CAI) in my GTS in a year or two... Going with the exhaust first.

 

well the k&n is not a typical CAI its a SRI with a heat shield. injen has a dyno graph.

Did the folks that know people working there tell you that k&n's intake was designed on the 2.0L engine before there was any knowledge of a 2.4L engine ever being released ?

Did you also know that when i fitted a 2.0L intake on my 2.4L engine it made the car feel a little bit sluggish on the low end and I could only feel a small power gain in the top end ?

The 2.0L intake I had on my 2.4L engine was the INJEN Cold Air Intake. The results that I experienced reflect nothing on the company since I was using a part designed for a different engine but I was stubborn. And when they did release the 2.4L intake i was the first to call nonsense on it because the design LOOKS (from pictures) the same but it REALLY isnt.

After much debate and after I found a buyer for my 2.0l injen CAI i bought the 2.4l intake. Luckily the buyer agreed that I could send him my intake AFTER i got my new one. While removing the parts and comparing them to the 2.4L intake parts the difference was clear. The piping was larger, the piping near the maf sensor was larger and inside the intake near the MAF holder there was a pipe ???? My old intake had no pipe in the tubing???

Turns out that pipe is used to bypass unmetered air pass the MAF sensor. The purpose of this is to lean out the AF ratio just like you would when tuning your car for max HP at a safe AF ratio. After installing everything and putting on the new AMSoil dry filter (the old 2.0 sitll use the k&n oil filters) i took it for a spin and WOW there was a huge difference vs stock vs the 2.0 intake.

The k&n 2.0l SRI (CAI whatever you feel like calling it) was NOT designed on with or for the 2.4l engine I can almost guarantee you will gain nothing from it being installed and that you may actually experience a bog in the low end.

I am speaking from experience with using 2.0l intakes on a 2.4l engine. I have been here since May 07 and have been driving a Lancer (2008 es now a 2009 gts) since April 2007.

 

You liked that filter ha!

This puts an end to the oily filters era !!

 

I hear ya! By no means was I trying to promote K&N. I just appreciated the fact they posted a dyno chart... These days, it just a little too easy to type up a claimed hp gain on a website (reason why I asked about the Works drop in filter in a different post)...

For us folks that are newbies and not so mechanically savvy - its the experience of folks like you that we are looking to and precisely why I join these boards... As for K&N, I didn't know those thing and of course I did not know your own experience. I used to own an Altima and some of my buddies and I got leaked photos from a one of their friends working at K&N who was on the Altima project. We got pre-production pics and he gave us a little run down on the development (a bunch of folks were eagerly awaiting for it to go on sale and were giving him hard time as to why it was taking so long to go commercial). So again, for a non-mechanic enthusiast like me - it was just encouraging to see such a development process in place...

And yes, I'll try to keep my CAI, SRI, etc. acronyms straight.

And, absolutely, it'll be the Injen that I'll be going for now! Will totally skip the K&N... Its why I'm on the boards, to hear the experiences of folks that have gone through the process...

 

^^^ thanks for listening luckily I did not lose any $ from my troubles of having the 2.0 then going to the 2.4l. i like to try things out, experiment with different intakes, exhausts, heck i made a SRI for my 08 that ran perfect for 6 months.

Thanks for taking my advice im on my own agenda of promoting injens CAI ( i dont capitalize it to point it out to you i capitalize it by habit haha so i wasnt trying to be mean also k&n DOES call their intake a CAI but its not really a CAI) for the 09 gts because it works really well.

good luck and also look at the greddy se exhaust over injens, it should sound better and in my opinion it looks sick clean and stylish !

 

ok but will the 2.4L kit fit on the 2.0? and is tht what ur hinting at?