cold air vs gas mileage

[Gotz Cb7]

So, I've been thinking on this for about..3 weeks. I purchased a cold-air intake, and I lost power after installing it. I hear all this junk about, how they help gas mileage, blah blah. That's the main reason I got it. Plus the like...extra 1-2 horsepower from the short-ram. But, on my post awhile back, of the cold-air disaster, I heard a lotta stuff. Resetin' the ECU, unplug this fuse, that fuse, do this, do that. hrm. I also came across someone tellin' me...that my air/fuel mixture wasn't correct. Since the car's gettin' colder air into the intake, I'm not gettin' enough fuel to even that out. Holddddddd uppppppppp a second. Isn't this supposed to LESSEN the gas subject. After reading that.....that the car's not getting enough fuel for the air/fuel mixture. hrm. I would like to get some serious answers towards this, cause it's really bothering me. I have a cold-air intake, that I can't use, cause 1....it's not giving me more power, it's giving me less. 2...I want better gas mileage, not worse. 3....Iuno what 3 is yet, but if I got a few peoples opinions on this, it would be awesomeeeeee.

[C91BLX7]

Maybe the filter is really shitty.

[NorcoAccord]

I have a short ram and a cold air on my civic and didn't notice a difference on gas mileage. the lost of power thing can you go in a little more detail about it, like is it at a certain RPM, or just off the line?

[xpressive]

You shouldn't have lost power..

You should be running leaner with the CAI, and that wouldn't mean you're running a bad mixture ratio. An intake wouldn't be able to change the ratio to the point you'd need tuning. Any leaks?

[C91BLX7]

You could have a bad MAP/IAT/O2 sensor or ecu?

[Gotz Cb7]

Brand new o2, ecu's fine. The filter works perfectly fine on my short-ram. Loss of power suchas...when I give it gas, it just....doesn't move like it used to. And on the highway, when overdrive kicks in, and say....I'm going up a tiny incline, and go to give it gas (while in over-drive), it just starts bogging...and slowly gets up and goes. Never done that before. The piping is definitely smaller than the piping on my short-ram, but....it slips right onto the throttle body perfectly. Doesn't need the little cup thingy the short-rams uses, since it's a little bigger.

[NorcoAccord]

Were did you buy this Cold air intake?

[Gotz Cb7]

Ebay, it's the 3" 1 piece. I took my filter off my short-ram, and put it on this cold-air. Can't be an issue with the filter. Most the people on here got or get their cold-air from Ebay. Just snap a better filter on it. psh, paid 45 bucks and mine's givin' me difficulty.

[EJX_Michael]

When you say you are fitting the CAI into the TB perfectly, do you think you might be putting it in to far? like to the point where it may be blocking the throttle plate from moving?

[C91BLX7]

When you say you are fitting the CAI into the TB perfectly, do you think you might be putting it in to far? like to the point where it may be blocking the throttle plate from moving?

If you are able to put the pipe inside the throttle body throw that shit away. Thats even smaller that the stock tube.

[Gotz Cb7]

no no no. Like, the short-ram's have a little fitting that you plug the short-ram pipe into, and it slides onto the throttle body, cause the piping on the short-ram's just a little bigger than the throttle body. This one, with the fitting on the end, each side of the fitting's the same size, to where.....the piping is the same exact size as the throttle body opening. See, right when I opened the box it came in, I realized it was smaller piping. But it fits perfectly onto the throttle body, so I didn't think that mattered? Here's a photo.

[EJX_Michael]

Bah, I dont know than... does the pipe have any kind of obstruction? try blowing through it.

[Gotz Cb7]

I put my Ipod cord through it, to see if there was anything inside, and it came out the other side. It really looks pretty under the hood. I'll try it again, and see if I can get further into detail. I've hooked it up, just like I have the short-ram hooked up. I took the cold-air off at a gas station on my way to Pa, cause the restriction was pissing me off, and I didn't reset anything after putting the short-ram back on (it was in my trunk), and I noticed a HELL of a different of power gotten back. My car does well with the short-ram, but damn....once the engine gets warm, and the sun beating off the hood......once it starts sucking in that hot air, my take off, and what not....is horrible. I just wanted some cold, fresh-air into the darn thing.

[EJX_Michael]

Thats really weird, maybe the pipe has a lot of burrs... Messing up the airflow... you could set up a heat shield around the SRI...

[shaolin]

this is interesting because I live in Vegas and it's hella hot here in the summer and I was wondering about this same topic. No matter what air comes thru a CAI or short ram, it's gonna be hot air because the outside temp is always 110-115 in the summer so I don't really know if this is gonna work good for me or not in terms of seeing minor HP gains.