Hp gain?
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The OEM intake is a CAI. If you used a cone type K&N under the hood, you have a HAI, not a CAI! You won't get any more air, but you will get more dirt & oil!
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power you lost with the larger tires. If you send me the money you will spend on K&N air filters, CAI intakes, etc,
you will get the same performance increase!
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Well Jack thats never good at all lol. I dont do much off roading dont like scratching my paint up. I was going to my friends house about 2 miles down the the road from my house and had snowed about 8" a couple days before and the road was iced over...my front right fender found a nice big tree :(
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If the ambient air (outside the engine compartment) is cooler than the engine compartment air, then the air flow through the OEM air box will cool it some, since it is pulled from the grill area in front of the radiator.
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This is a comprehensive test that proves you will not get any more air with the K&N air filter:
"Only way to really know is to read your Mass Airflow Sensor on a scanner with both filters. Take a WOT run and record the highest MAF reading, then swap filters and go for another run. If there's a considerably higher reading with the K&N, then your engine is outflowing the paper filter. If they're similar, then the engine is not making any more power with one vs. another, no matter what your "butt dyno" is telling you.
Sometimes the K&N filters make the airbox louder, but really aren't doing anything else. People tend to equate more noise with more power lots of times too.
On my old '97 Grand Prix, I saw MAF readings of 19.8#/min with a new Wix paper filter, a K&N drop-in filter, an open cone, and an aftermarket CAI. This tells me that the engine was breathing just as well thru a paper filter as it was thru any other filter I tried. The paper filter and factory airbox were of sufficient flow rates for this engine."
"Only way to really know is to read your Mass Airflow Sensor on a scanner with both filters. Take a WOT run and record the highest MAF reading, then swap filters and go for another run. If there's a considerably higher reading with the K&N, then your engine is outflowing the paper filter. If they're similar, then the engine is not making any more power with one vs. another, no matter what your "butt dyno" is telling you.
Sometimes the K&N filters make the airbox louder, but really aren't doing anything else. People tend to equate more noise with more power lots of times too.
On my old '97 Grand Prix, I saw MAF readings of 19.8#/min with a new Wix paper filter, a K&N drop-in filter, an open cone, and an aftermarket CAI. This tells me that the engine was breathing just as well thru a paper filter as it was thru any other filter I tried. The paper filter and factory airbox were of sufficient flow rates for this engine."
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exhaust manifolds. How is moving going to change this?
The airflow under the engine isn't going to cool the engine
compartment air.
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The engine compartment air is heated from air coming through the radiator and off of engine components like the
exhaust manifolds. How is moving going to change this?
The airflow under the engine isn't going to cool the engine
compartment air.
The air coming through the radiator is not stagnant!
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