Performance Racing Industry 2014: Part 1

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These little boxes should be a popular item for California customers that can only get 91 octane at the pump (and crappy 91 at that), as well for other power-hungry racers in any other part of the country that can’t get E85.  Being able to control your flow of methanol to the engine is crucial, and AEM has other fail-safes for methanol users that, once tuned correctly, turn this into a no-brainer.  It goes without saying that these AEM products, along with their EMS hardware, are for off-road use only.  AEM is explicit about this.

I recently tested a turbocharged E46 M3 making 700whp on an AEM Series 1 and methanol injection kit that ran out of methanol quickly on the dyno due to a leak that was fixed, and the way it instantly pulled timing and boost, as shown on the dyno graph you'll see soon, was awesome.  But more on that car and test later this winter…

AEM gauges are cool because several of them have controllers or fail-safes built into them, and you can customize them with different face or bezel colors.  They can also be wired into your AEM EMS if you’ve got one.

AEM was also featuring its soon-to-be-released 385 LPH pump, along with its 310 LPH “E85” pump, which can run 100% ethanol or 100% methanol.
 

The AEM Infinity EMS, of course, is the product that people are talking about the most.  At 400 MIPS (that’s 400 million instructions per second), this is a heavy duty piece of hardware, and it also features Motorsport-grade connectors and full weather proofing.

We’ve installed the AEM Infinity on our Project E46 M3 and Project Supra.  It’s got a variety of features for full tuning capabilities, some of the popular ones include boost-by-gear tuning; tuning with volumetric efficiency; CANBUS integrations; traction control, drive-by-wire control, etc.

While the AEM Infinity can be hardwired to control virtually any off-road car, AEM has made it simple with its Plug-and-Play harnesses.  It started with ones for the MKIV Supra, along with the E46 M3, and later expanded to some Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi and VW models.  Today, Porsche 996 and 997 owners will be happy to learn that AEM has got a PNP harness for their off-road-use cars as well.

It was cool to meet up with AEM folks that I’ve worked with numerous times over the years, like Lawson Mollica and Kirk Miller.  I’m a little embarrassed to report, however, that while chatting with Greg Neuwirth, I didn’t know he was the founder until I'd asked him how long he’d been with the company more than five minutes into our conversation.  Regardless, it's cool to have the presidents and founders of these companies around at PRI to meet and have them share their story.

Okay, this just in!  While in the middle of writing this article, I got an AEM email update stating that the AEM Plug and Play harness is now available for 2003-2007 USDM Mitsubishi Evo VIII and IX!