cold air intake
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Quik LS
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http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/showthread.php?t=8885
all ready asked and answered.
if you search you will find many many threads on this.
all ready asked and answered.
if you search you will find many many threads on this.
JES_LS
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I would not call that a CAI its just a conical filter and a hard intake pipe. It is letting the engine breathe heated under hood air.
Lou, I would have thought that you of all people (Mr cut the hood of my LS for a hood scoop), would have tried to steer this guy away from that stuff.
a real CAI gets the air filter out of the engine bay and somewhere like into the inner fender well so that the motor is not breathing heated air. instead it gets ambient air. This can be many degrees cooler than what is under your hood. I know on my mustang the CAI was good for almost 75 degrees in stop and go traffic (which made a big difference in how hot the intake got when the motor went on boost).
Lou, I would have thought that you of all people (Mr cut the hood of my LS for a hood scoop), would have tried to steer this guy away from that stuff.
a real CAI gets the air filter out of the engine bay and somewhere like into the inner fender well so that the motor is not breathing heated air. instead it gets ambient air. This can be many degrees cooler than what is under your hood. I know on my mustang the CAI was good for almost 75 degrees in stop and go traffic (which made a big difference in how hot the intake got when the motor went on boost).
Quik LS
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JES_LS said:
there are 1000 threads on this - didn't see the need for 1001....... :sleep:
seems no one searches....
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GrayGhost1
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Explain this in why you would steer someone away from this? I mean Lou will even agree that this will definitely increase performance. I agree it's not a "true" cold air intake system but it's a thousand times better than the stock setup. If you route some outside air to the air filter then it will help. Also, making an enclosure to shield some of the under hood air will do the trick as well. However, I have been running my system for well over 2 years and will NEVER return to the stock setup.JES_LS said:
JES_LS
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Ken, don't get me wrong, it will breath much better than the factory airbox. I have no issues with that. And if you fabricate a shield that will mostly seal against the fenders and hood plus route a duct to the shielded space fron the outside it will work. If you do not use the shield and a duct than you are just making it easier for the motor to suck in very hot air. Lots of hot air does not make for great increases in power since the PCM will pull out timing when the IAT reading goes too high.
I live in NJ and have seen summer underhood temps sitting in traffic in the supercharged stang pass 195 on a remote temperature probe. (95 deg outside 98%humidity and the AC on max), Mean while my IAT was reporting only 105 deg because it was getting fed air from just under the front bumper. Even after passing through the supercharger (off boost), another remote probe only read 165. I never got readings after the Air-to-air intercooler, but I don't think it was absorbing much heat from the intake charge with those underhood temps (it might have even been heating the charge when I was crawling in traffic)
I intend to get a full tilt CAI with the filter tucked in behind the bumper way way away from the underhood BTU's, when I get time and $$ (the trans swap comes first). But until then I'll keep the factory airbox with a clothes dryer flex duct as its feeder.
I live in NJ and have seen summer underhood temps sitting in traffic in the supercharged stang pass 195 on a remote temperature probe. (95 deg outside 98%humidity and the AC on max), Mean while my IAT was reporting only 105 deg because it was getting fed air from just under the front bumper. Even after passing through the supercharger (off boost), another remote probe only read 165. I never got readings after the Air-to-air intercooler, but I don't think it was absorbing much heat from the intake charge with those underhood temps (it might have even been heating the charge when I was crawling in traffic)
I intend to get a full tilt CAI with the filter tucked in behind the bumper way way away from the underhood BTU's, when I get time and $$ (the trans swap comes first). But until then I'll keep the factory airbox with a clothes dryer flex duct as its feeder.
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GrayGhost1
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This is a bad time of year for the intake system. I do a lot of highway driving so I don't have any issues with drawing in a lot of warm to hot air. I ran a 3" piece of flex hose from the lower air dam to the bottom of the air filter to introduce ambient air from outside the engine bay. It seems to help. The only issue this time of year is stop and go traffic. I lose some low end torque with hot air being sucked in. However, that's short lived once car starts moving.
I've really been on my friend Wayne to finish up his cold air intake box. However, he's got three street rods he is working on so that is not priority at the time. We did some experiments with the first box he made and there was a tremendous difference in temperature inside the box. He lined the inside of the box with a heat shield. On a hot day last summer the temperature read 100 degrees inside the box while the outside read 150. Of course we thought that the temperature inside the box may have been cooler driving down the road. We took the readings after we drove the car for about 30 minutes.
I've really been on my friend Wayne to finish up his cold air intake box. However, he's got three street rods he is working on so that is not priority at the time. We did some experiments with the first box he made and there was a tremendous difference in temperature inside the box. He lined the inside of the box with a heat shield. On a hot day last summer the temperature read 100 degrees inside the box while the outside read 150. Of course we thought that the temperature inside the box may have been cooler driving down the road. We took the readings after we drove the car for about 30 minutes.