Mark Doiron

Generally speaking, choose either a snorkel (which is a real cold air intake) or a CAI (which is not a real cold air intake). There is at least one exception that I know of: RIPP offers a housing for their CAI for their superchargers that can adapt it to certain snorkels. Purpose is to disconnect the snorkel when on-highway, allowing maximum airflow to the supercharger, but have a snorkel when needed off-highway. However, with AEV's redesign of their snorkel, which was somewhat restrictive in dyno testing, the need for such an adapter is moot.

My put: If you use your Jeep off road, get a snorkel, or just run the stock air box (provided you don't ford anything deep). If you're street only, then a CAI is okay. Don't expect any noticeable horsepower/gas mileage improvements regardless of what the marketing literature might say. You're getting a CAI for the sound, and for the appearance when you open the hood.

Oh, and snorkels just look cool, especially when fording ...

A'sJK

This thread might help...https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/modi...-combo-300081/

DunnyBunny

This is why I mentioned volant earlier. They offer a kit similar to RIPP. You can get their CAI that's an enclosed box and there is a different top cover for it that hooks into there snorkel. If you decide to take the snorkel off then just put the original cover on and you have a volant CAI.

groth797

Gotcha, thanks for clearing it up. I do like the RIPP since I can use any snorkel kit I want or Volant since it's a full kit as well. But help was great and should be purchasing one relatively soon