vetteZpilot

What is up with these High pricing on CAI. I would think the RD&D has long been over. The asking price on these things are at least twice as high for what I would pay for 1. I do like the look of the carbon fiber ones and would look good in the engine bay, $1300 No Way $700 I consider $500 sold !

village idiot

It's not so much R&D as it is tooling. Costs a few million for tooling, and it's not like they're going to sell 100k of them.

Actually, to be more correct, it's supply and demand. It really doesn't matter what it costs to make- they are going to sell them for as much as they can get for them.

dbirdhouse1

after having CAI's on previous C6's, the aFe I bought was 150 - 200 bucks more no matter where I looked.......the days of a piece of stainless and a filter are over.....

pbergmann

Save your money the factory system is best.

I say this because of the issues other report when you start changing things .

thill444

Based on other threads I have seen there is a possibility GM might deny a powertrain warranty claim if you have a CAI installed. At least on the Z06.

pewter99

yeah I saw one for $1000 its a freakin filter and plastic tube...

Virtual Geezer

Any 'seat of the pants' difference will be due to the lightening of your wallet. Absolute waste of money on stock drivetrain.

It's kinda like all the leather elixirs designed to 'feed' our plastic-coated ('finished') leather. Almost all car interior leather has been finished for years, but the 'leather care' companies allowed the myth to continue until information on forums like this busted their slick schemes. Sure, the stuff looks nice when you first apply it, just before it rubs off on yer azz.

patb23

I'm coming from a BMW M5 where intakes are in the $1800-2500 range, so to see these prices its a bargain. LOL

LoganExplosion

It's called the "corvette tax" and it's on way more than just intakes!

When I was first looking at CAIs, I thought to myself "might as well just get a supercharger".

Custom Corvette Accessories

United States Federal Law, (15 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq.)
Any warrantor warranting a consumer product to a consumer by means of a written warranty must disclose, fully and conspicuously, in simple and readily understood language, the terms and conditions of the warranty

Please show us in the warranty where it states that and intake will
void the powertrain warranty

Regards
Chip

falconhulk

You know it does not state that. What he meant is that anything that changes the way the car makes power can be blamed for a powertrain failure. If they can blame something you did, they will.

DickieDoo

Just put in a filter for 80 bucks and you get 85% of the benefit if any.

Panhead51

Same here...just dropped in a high-flow filter element and called it a day.

thill444

Exactly, just read the threads. And the next person who quotes MagMoss Act I will laugh at. I have seeen so many cars get modified for performance and denied over the years and not once has the MagMoss act worked.

Pay to play. You alter the OEM specs of the car with the specific intention of increasing performance and you have to pay to play. Will GM deny someone because they installed a CAI? Likely not. Can they? Absolutely.

LDYSTIG

This. /thread

VictorBarron

2015 Z06 with the aFe CAI and couldn't be more satisfied. I have 5,000 miles on it with no issues.

vetteZpilot

This is what I'm getting at ! every other carbon fiber piece is price basically by size. What warrants the $1300 price tag for an intake when I can practically pay that for the rear diffuser
which is 10 times larger, it should be priced in the $500-$700 range similar to items of the same size.

mschuyler

But they're not. First World Problem. It's not as if you NEED one of these things. And if you're after performance, you can buy any number of CAIs for less than $500. Of course, they may be made of rubber instead of "cool looking" carbon fiber.

village idiot

Free market. Supply and demand.

sTz

^^^ This...

Similar R&D and tooling goes into fabricating aftermarket CAIs for all cars, but prices are not similar.

Edit: Also, the OEM set-up isn't too shabby. Unless you plan on tuning, then a high-flow filter will "generally" yield similar results (See the BMS and Attack Blue filter threads).