quiet intakes ?

had aem cai for a while now and love it but want somethin thats a lot quieter.

what are my choices ? mugen and comptech are expensive so not sure about these and what do these 2 sound like ?

stock?

why do you want it quieter?

I've never heard an aftermarket intake that was quiet. You need a resonator to deaden the sound.

:iagree: w/ miataracer - STOCK w/ K&N filter

just preference. my car wont be quiet but want it quiter. from what you guys say i may as well keep my aem then. is even the mugen similar to aem. just that i thought closed boxes were supposed to be quieter ?

Dunno if this will help you, but to install my AEM CAI, I did it in a couple of steps. First, I already had a K&N drop in replacement for the stock filter in the stock box. I removed the resonator and the pipe that it's connected to and drove around for a week like that. It made huge amounts of noise, especially when I opened up the throttle... but at the same time I felt like I LOST power.

Then I pulled the entire stock intake and installed the CAI. This made it a lot quieter than stock with no resonator and I got the gain back. I noticed the CAI is a lot quiter than rams because the filter is so low in the bumper... this makes it much quiter in the cabin, and a little quiter outside. It just has that vacuum sucking sound.

So... from my experience, it seems that the resonator is the source of reducing a LOT of noise. Since none of the performance systems have a resonator, I doubt anythings going to be much quieter.

all intakes have the cavuum sucking sound

I don't know why you'd want it quieter, I love that sucking sound! But I guess if you prefer it that way - it's a free country. Cold air suck much more than the others, so if you want it quieter, steer away from that.

also since havin my aem cai and more so with exhaust the attention my car atttracts has x10 from both police and general.

Dude, here is a hint for you if you want a quiter intake..... GO STOCK!!

loLz!

na, will keep aem/exhaust/decat. want evry bit of extra power i can get.

maybe if i get it supercharged ill take some noisy bits of lol.