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Why won't my homemade capacitor work!?

I built it with 3 cards ( the ones used to play go fish ) and 2 pieces of aluminium.They are in this order card, foil, card, foil, and card.They are sandwitched together and the foil isn't glued it's taped with duct tape.I connected a wire to each piece of foil and then to a battery.Left it there for 2 minand took the battery off .WITHOUT TOUCHING the wires.THEN.I tuched the wires without the batand didn't feel anything.What's wrong?At this point anything will help :-(-)-(

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i cant find one for my 96 either i talked to my local car shop about a universal intake kit, they said they were going to have to rip a lot of stuff out to make it fit, they reccomend a new computer chip they said it would give me the horse power gain im looking for but im not sure if u want hourse power or just to cool ur engine down
In theory your description should workHere are a couple possibilities: 1) The plates are too small to achieve a charge that you'll feel2) The duct tape is conductive and shorting out the foil platesTry using sheets of newspaper or saran-wrap as the dielectric between large pieces of aluminum foilLay sheets of saran-wrap, foil, saran-wrap, and foil on top of one another in that orderThen roll up the packageSee photo at link below.
it can be done but is hard to do right.just fork out the money and buy a kn cold air intake they are the best from what i have seen

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