Originally Posted by
Kyleg
No, a big cone filter does nothing for the car, if you stuck a cone filter in your hot engine bay, straight on the MAS all it is doing is sucking in hot air from your engine bay, it will reduce gas mileage, it will not help the car perform better in anyway shape or form, it just makes a noise as it sucks up hot air.
It will suffer from heat soak, how can a cone filter be a CAI when it
A. Metal absorbing heat
B. Heating the air as it goes through it
C. Sucking in hot air anyways from the engine bay itself
The only way to do a proper CAI install is to use something like the original air box but bigger, perferably using alluminium, engine side of it polished so it reflects the heat, then stick a cone filter in it, and an intake pipe to that from outside the engine bay, other wise your "CAI" is doing fuck all and becoming a "HAI" which will make the engine run worse
Sticking a cone filter on with a bit of pipe is just a placebo effect.
My VR4, if I was doing a CAI on it, I would utilise the stock set up as much as I could
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