I'm getting a little squeak or chirp noise whenever I shift or I blip the throttle a little. Is this normal? I've searched and some people say it's normal and because of the intake, but then someone said it could be my clutch or motor mounts? I'm pretty sure it's neither my clutch or motor mounts because I don't really drive it like I stole it (just sometimes) lol I just do casual driving usually shifting between 2k-3k rpms. I just want to know since the car only has around 19k miles and if it is my clutch or motor mounts or something worse, I want to fix it before it gets worse

 

Its the air sucking through the filter i'm pretty sure, bothered me at 1st too, but now I like it, reminder that I got something under there , I rarely hear it now

 

its air sucking into the intake

 

I'ts normal, my Injen CAI does it, I like it to be honest.

 

Thanks! That's a big sigh of relief lol. But I get what you guys mean by it growing on you cuz I'm starting to like it too specially now that I know it's normal and that nothing is wrong lol

 

I haven't heard the SRI personally, but I def like the CAI. Enjoy!

 

the CAI is a lot more noticeable than the SRI...as a matter of fact I don't think I ever heard it when I had it as a SRI....could be me though.

 

My stock intake did this too.

 

Yea, same with mine. I would hear it every now and then when shifting to 2nd.

 

Your stock intake does this? I've never heard it until I switched to the sri, but then again I have heard that some sounds have always been there, but the aftermarket intakes just makes it more noticeable?

Either way, the plus side is that you have that sweet sound I've grown to love without buying an intake! lol

One other thing, for some reason, the mpg with the intake seems to go down like .1 to .2 when I'm warming it up. That never happened when I was running stock. Probably normal though, I mean, I'm not complaining about .1 to .2 since overall I now average 29.6 compared to 27.1 with stock.

 

Yea. It would be every once in a while though, mainly when going into 2nd gear. I like the little whistle, almost feels like a BOV lol.

I'm not sure, probably adjusting to more air or something.

 

With a stock intake just apply a very very small amount of throttle and you'll hear this whistle/squeak.

 

I had a valet guy ask me if me tC was turbo'd because my Injen cold air intake was so loud, and it still is that loud. I just told him "yes", it made for a better day for him, he got to think he was driving a turbo tC and he probably wrote it down in his diary for all I know.