AED hood + stage 2 WAI

[rak4life]

please correct me if i am wrong about any of this.

i am thinking about gettin an AED hood and i believe that it brings air to the stock air bock position. if i was to get the doctor speed stage 2 WAI would i be defeating the purpose of the hood bringing air into the engine, and would it be better if i just put a cone on the end or the stock plastic tube.

and, would i be making anything near the horsepower gain with this setup as i would with a CAI.

last thing, would the SD hood work in a similar fashion.

[Peyman]

first off...do u have $1100 for a aed hood?

[gbe357]

nice hood...not worth it...(performance wise)....but for looks...hard to beat it.

[Xidion]

face it WAI's suck if you want performance go CAI

[Old Guy]

Actually if you can box in the filter and just have a sealed opening to the hood scoop you might see a little boost in performance, but it would be minimal. I looked at another member's hood in Albany and it can be done with a little fabricating. It would definately solve any problem that you'd have with getting water in your CAI as long as you have a way to close off the hood scoop when it rains.

The price to performance ratio would be way off though unless you're just doing the hood for looks.

[rak4life]

thanks for the input but would it be best to shell out the money and get a WAI or cut a hole in the stock air box.

[Stephen's GA]

The S/D hood will work in the same way as aeds hood you could just keep the stock air box and modify it and get the ram air effect there is a few post floating around on how to modify the air box.

[Old Guy]

And after you modify the box, you can actually put a K&N cone in there instead which is what quite a few guys have done.

I coudn't find any threads on modifying the box, but you can remove it and smooth out the ribs inside.