cold air intake

[speeddemon22]

Hey, I was told that it's better to go with a 2 piece cold air intake that way in the winter you can switch it up to a short ram, to avoid getting water in your engine. I was wanting some input on this to see what other people thought of this idea.

[CustomLowz]

Hey, I was told that it's better to go with a 2 piece cold air intake that way in the winter you can switch it up to a short ram, to avoid getting water in your engine. I was wanting some input on this to see what other people thought of this idea.

You can do that, run a short ram intake, or run a CAI and have a water bypass too... Many options, and none are really wrong...

I ran a CAI but changed to a short ram intake because of how low I was.

[rexload]

stock air box with K&N filter is going to have the best response in a daily driver. cold air setup will work fine too but may not be practical depending on where you live. short ram is no good.

[deevergote]

The difference in power between a short ram and a cold air intake is minimal. The air in the engine bay is moving when you're in motion, so you're not sucking in significantly "hot" air.

[bcjammerx]

it's mostly the larger tubing but mostly the more free flowing air filter that does the trick. Match the ID to the ID of your TB and plenum and get a good filter

[slloth]

I was wondering about these intakes. How does this effect gas mileage? I assume it would make it worse. I was thinking about getting a K&N but don't want to decrease my MPG.

[deevergote]

It's SUPPOSED to make it better, but most of what I've seen, the ECU sees more air and compensates with more fuel. With a properly tuned ECU, you can improve mileage over stock, but that's fairly involved... not as simple as installing a "chip".

[nine_deuce]

I wish Iceman still made intakes for our cars. I'd much rather have a plastic intake than an aluminum one.

I guess I could wrap mine with header wrap, but, that defeats the purpose of spending money on a name brand intake.

I'd really like to find a carbon/kevlar "whale penis" intake

[cloudasc]

Hahah i saw one of those ^^ on a civic at my mechanics shop, boy it sure looked funny as hell, it was carbon, and another shape i could compare it too would be a kazoo.

As for the two piece intake, its good logic, but a bypass valve on a cai will prevent you from sucking water into the engine.

[90CB7EURO]

I have a cold air intake and I driven in the rain sometimes it would be raining really hard and I cut out the bottom piece where the fogs go to get more air and I never had a problem wit it.i also heard somewhere that with a bypass valve you loose hp

[deevergote]

Minimal.

And how hard it rains doesn't matter. If you submerge the filter, you're fucked.

[1990Ex]

I have a cold air intake and I driven in the rain sometimes it would be raining really hard and I cut out the bottom piece where the fogs go to get more air and I never had a problem wit it.i also heard somewhere that with a bypass valve you loose hp

maybe 1 or 2 hp if that

[JDM_CB7_TX]

^^^ To the flywheel... You can have a CAI and gain more but as stated you will slighty waste a bit more gas. where you are located is the key my friend. Weather is going to be your deciding factor.

[1990Ex]

^^^ To the flywheel... You can have a CAI and gain more but as stated you will slighty waste a bit more gas. where you are located is the key my friend. Weather is going to be your deciding factor.

nah i was talking about the bypass valve

[JDM_CB7_TX]

Oh LMAO!!!! The loss will unnoticable.