Car Cold Air Intake Question?
It's already a cold air intake system from the factory. Thas why it ends behind the headlight. It can pickup cooler air there. All cars for the last 20 years have had some type of cold air intake system. Can it be improved on? Sure all stock things can, but your idea of moving it in front of the rad will make it worse. The air there is hotter than the factory pickup point cause it is heated by the temp of the rad. If you wanted to remove parking light, fog light, or somehing, or cut a hole here or there and run pipe to a true cooler air source then you might gain alittle. Nothing you will notice though. The rule of thumb is 1% power gain for every 10* drop in inlet air temp. The other guy is alittle wrong on how engines work Yes they can only take in the air and fuel they use, but cooler air is denser and you can pack in more oxygen in the cooler air, so you trick engine into drawing in more air, but to make more power, now you need more fuel. If you do move the pickup point, I only see it being 10-15* cooler than factory place and thats 1 to 1.5% gain. 1% of 201 HP is 2.01 HP No that fan thing is a joke, a gimmick. It will not work and in fact it will hurt your HP by blocking air flow and causing air to tumble inside the pipe rather than inside the head.
Allow me to explain something to you, A normally aspirated, internal combustion engine will only take in as much air/fuel as it needs, So putting a large intake pipe on it will do nothing! Just like trying to pour 5 gallons of gas in with a 1 pint funnel (it will only go in as fast as the funnel hole allows) It is not a good idea to pound to hard on this vehicle the CD4E transmission in this vehicle is the weak link in this vehicle! This intake will cause nothing but problems with air filters and fouled MAF (mass air flow) sensors! ADDED James i think you are a little confused about how internal combustion engines work! Do you know what Normally aspirated means?
yea i would move it where its not sucking the hot air from the engine bay and somwhere it can get fresh cooler airand the colder the air the more horsepower the car will have because the colder the engine runs the morse hosrepower it will haveand the turbo intake might help force more air into the engine and create more HP but ussally anything that says gas saver fails on HPbut i would email the guy and askok this guy under me is alittle confused, what do turbos and superchargers do??oh yea they force as much air into the engine as possible.so there for the more air flow the better
