CAI Are Bad News!!!!!!!!

my afe pro dry is fine mine is also hooked up to a safari snorkel so i don't think i'm getting much dust in there due to the higher location of the intake. i'm also running a sealed factory air box.

i also don't see how shit at least on my setup could get past both the charcoal filter and the afe pro dry it seems like an extraordinary set of circumstances would need to take place.

 

Hahah sorry man not even possible.. your gaining a little more than 30% of your stock mpg just by adding a cold air intake? thats just too hard to believe.

 

I recently installed a Stage 2 AFE that I picked up from Underdog Racing. While the factory intake is technically a "Cold Air Intake" because it draws air from the fenderwell, it still has to go through two filters and zig zag before it makes it to the throttle body.

The horsepower gains with the supercharger were amazing, it was obviously starved for air. It's a different vehicle above 3.5k - 4k. Also, I am about to finish up my first full tank of gas since the install and I believe I will be breaking my previous record of 22.6 mpg. I just hit 358.x on the way into work and the light had not come on yet. So I realize every one will have different experiences, but I am very happy with my aftermarket CAI.

 

A blown engine is a much different animal than a stock, N/A engine. The stock air intake is not starving the engine for air. Blown, I can see how you could get more of an improvement out of a CAI.

 

yea you would have to take the truck offroad for it to get dust on or in it

believe the guy who put your snorkel on - it's very easy to get silica past the aftermarket filters.

 

Converting from metric to imperial, my math may be off...but there is no doubt about the mileage I got out of a tank (weird that even in metric, it's called mileage...but I digress). I went from 400 km a tank to 500-525 a tank. When I traded it in, took everything off, and I was back down to 400 km.

 

Wait, a Gt-40 Engine with a Kenne Bell S/C. what size KB? What Year Stang...And a Crate Gt-40 Engine( the GT-40 Car DOHC or the gt40 wedge)? FoMoCo offers that?

 

That's not what he said. The old Kenne Bell Ram Air runs a snorkel down just below the front bumper to get incoming air. It is not a S/C.

 

The new ones are around 300hp, get 30MPG, and run a 13 sec 1/4 mile. Plus you don't have to pay "GT" gas prices. Doesn't sound all that bad to me.

 

If I felt the need to justify myself to random douchebags on the inter-webs, I'd say me, when a relative wants to give it to me for a $1000 with 40k kms on it, and the wife says, "If you take that instead of spending $25k on a new car, you can use some money to rebuild it and still save over $15k".
But I don't...

 

Ken Bell ram air not SC.

89' hatchback

GT 40 crate for a car (not sure what model I was 18 when I had it).

GT-40 aluminum intake as well

No Ford does not offer that. You take out the old poop and put in new poop.

yep. good design imho. much better then the crap CAI's URD and others sell that you can't drive in the rain with or you hydrolock.

Also had Cervini Stalker front clip with 4" cowl hood, cobra rear lights, cobra rear bumper, saleen wing, weld wheels (10" rear/3" up front), enkie adj struts, drag bags, MSD ingintion and to much other small crap I forgot about cause it was 15 years ago.

Crashes, tickets, and speed are no longer my style. Now I'm older and go slow + buying a house kills a racing budget.

that poor car got turned into a beer can almost 14 years ago.

 

there is some seriousness in this thread...

 

If engineers could figure out how to put ram air (cai) into a mustang 20 years ago and have it drive fine in a monsoon.... why can't they figure it out for a simple 4.0 v6 in 2012?

Safari snorkel for the win!!!

 

Im pretty sure its been passed around a meeting table, however Marketing and purchase price play a very large part...

 

Heck take a TRD CAI and run some rubber flex hose from the CAI into the fog light hole.

Done

Pretty much the same system as my old Ken Bell.

and I had a K&N on my Mustang, and my quads, and my bikes, and my rice rocket, and my Tacoma. So after 20 years I now know they suck.

 

I see, so this is an entirely different topic then the CAI one, now we think RAM air actually does something beneficial...

 

who's we?

I have ram air on My Tacoma right now.


pic from yesterday

 

It does. It makes it sound real neat....