Looks great, but why do they insist on including that damn sound tube. Would look 10x better with out that ugly POS ford afterthought attached to it.
This intake is perfect. looks great, nice closed design and still using cold air tube, and nice smooth bends. the reason i WONT be buying it is because in traditional AEM fashion they continue to use aluminium plumbing. adapt already AEM! this is no longer 1999. Almost every single intake on the market for every car now uses plastic, carbon fiber, of some sort of the same material to figh against heat soak. all i see this intake doing is heat soaking and not making any power becuase any gains will be offset. im sure top end itll pick up a few ponys, thats all. I would sell my JLT in a seconf if this came in another material tube. Hey, atleast the aftermarket is starting to pick up. thanks for sharing the pics.
so did they put yours on for free for testing purposes?
Hmmmm....that is a paradigm that needs to be dropped. The air moving through the tube is at such a high rate that it doesn't have time to absorb heat.
Thinking it through in simplest terms one could come to the conclusion that a metal tube would absorb more heat and then radiate that inside affecting the IAT's.
This simply isn't the case. In fact, Jannetty Racing did a test not so long ago of CAI's for the 5th gen Camaro. The plastic tube intakes didn't have any better IAT's than the metal tube intakes nor did they make any more power simply because of the materials used. In fact, the best performing intake is made by CAI, Inc. utilizing an air scoop from ADM. This is a metal tube intake BTW.
Some food for thought. The metal vs. plastic debate is simply a wives-tale.