diamondotg
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- Apr 18, 2010
I installed a homemade 3 inch cold air kit on my car today and it seems like its slower.I made it so that the filter is behind the bumper.It sounds awsome but its no faster what happend?
When was the last time your butt dyno was calibrated? It may be due for recalibration.
Do yourself a favor and invest in some sort of scan tool
Hi,
A cold air system is a good idea. When you open the hood after a run,the heat just pours out. That said, I think you are running very lean. You need to get the car fatter, by hook or by crook. The hook would be larger injectors or something, the crook would be E85 or race gas.You will like the way it runs,when this all spins out.Good luck!
More and more people are jumping into these cars and start throwing parts at them looking for quicker ET's and do not have scan tools or gauges to know what the car is doing.
Sure, after you come to a stop there's nothing to keep it from getting hot under the hood--oops,,, then ingesting that hot air for idle...
Most cold air kits are hype--when your're moving, the air @ filter inside engine compartment is not really all that different than intake in-front/down low (n.e. "cold air concept...")... In reality, the added resistance to air flow/pressure drop MORE than negates any gain (while moving) from any decrease in IAT...
Added turbulence does not necessarily mean added pressure-drop--depending on which flow region you are in (laminar or turbulent)...if you're in laminar flow region, then added turbulence can decrease overall friction-factor & hence decrease pressure drop...