Should I get a new muffler or a old air intake first? I hear people telling me to get a new muffler before I get a new intake. I have been told that the new intake will create more pressure in the engine making it harder on it. Is this true? Should I get a new muffler first to help release the pressure in the engine? Does it really matter? What is the difference in performance between a cold air intake and a short ram intake?
unless you have a supercharger or turbo the pistons draw in as much as air as they can. the type of intake no matter what it is cannot increase that amount beyond what the pistons can do. a cold air intake (cool air is denser than hot air) will increase the amount of air slightly, but not so much as to require a muffler change. a free flow muffler will help anyway but isnt needed. theoretically a short intake with cold air will draw more air with less resistance, but more goes into it than just that, having proper flow is more important, it must be sized right, bigger is not always better.
what kind of car? year, make, model, engine size
I will assure you putting a CAI on your car will not be hard on it.A power adder such as nitrous on a engine with stock internals will be damaged however with repeated spraying.All the CAI does is add more air(02)to your engine which obviously creates a mild power gain.The more air/fuel you add to an engine in the proper air/fuel ratio the more power you are going to make.When your ECM senses based on readings from an O2 sensor that the air/fuel ratio is lean.too much air.not enough fuel.It will increase the pulse with of the fuel injectors to add more fuel to the engine thus increasing performance.
