Cold Air Induction Kits (CAI)

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Look as air gets colder it gets denser, this means more oxygen within a smaller volume, more oxygen = more power FACT

Bwhahahahahaahaha

Point.... Missed.

It's not cooling the air!
The air will never ever get colder than the ambient outside temperature.
So when the car is first started the air coming into the engine will be identical temperature regardless of how it gets there.
As far as charge temp goes this is the best the engine will get.

As you drive the intake system will heat up from radiated heat and thi will have an effect on the intake air charge.
A caf reduces this (but does not eliminate it) but at the end of the day it will still be slightly higher than ambient. As such power will be lower than what you could get.

I say again - caf does not cool air, doesn't increase density it perform any other made up fact.

[RIV]

I've already stated the obvious, end of story!! Cold air at speed increases performance, you ever wrong??

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You've stated it wrong though.
the intake air temp will never be below ambient air temp so explain how it is cooling the air and adding more power??

Yes the air charge will be marginally cooler with a cai than without but it still won't give you any power above stock.
Not sure any other way of explaining it. you seem obsessed with the fact cold air is more dense - which is obviously so. The difference is that the cai simply isn't cooling air just taking slightly less hot air from somewhere else.
Not even considering the potential pumping and efficiency losses from having a considerably longer air channel to draw the air in.

Just saying the word 'fact' does not make it so.
It wasn't that long when the earth was flat-fact. Travelling at supersonic speed was impossible - fact.

No I am not right about everything but stuff I do know after hours and hours logging cars to squeeze every last bit out on track. This is something that I have looked into as air charge temp is key to aggressive timing.

[RIV]

Ok we'll what about ram air filters

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Ok we'll what about ram air filters

Arg!
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[xxx_mojo_xxx]

What is ram air?

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Ram air is where people think that if you have the air intake facing the direction of travel (generally with a big funnel) then more air is forced into engine meaning things must be better.
It's not quite as simple as that and the net result for a road caris non existent but people still buy into them.

[xxx_mojo_xxx]

All this talk about induction kits, whether they increase power, and ram air, I'm wondering if its worth getting one now!

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Imo, The cai is worth doing and should be a no brainer if the drivers radiator leaks.

[xxx_mojo_xxx]

Imo, The cai is worth doing and should be a no brainer if the drivers radiator leaks.

What?

[Madmonkee]

^^^ if you aux rad starts to leak, rather than buying another to fix, take it out and in its place put a cold air feed, simples.

[xxx_mojo_xxx]

^^^ if you aux rad starts to leak, rather than buying another to fix, take it out and in its place put a cold air feed, simples.

Still don't understand...you got any pics?

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Plenty on the search.
Essentially two small additional coolant radiators are probe to leaking. The drivers one can be replaced with a cold air feed direct to the airbox solving several possible issues.
- no more leaking aux rad
- cheaper than aux rad
- reduced heat soak
- no stuck throttle power flap
- power flap vacuum actuator removed so no chance of vac leak here