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guys.....
it is a proven fact that a CAI will not increase HP ATW majorly if anything at all....especially on a stock engine. PLEASE mike , dyno graph ur car BEFORE and AFTER to prove to the world any results ok !
BTW.....far as i know and have experienced - a good CAI "feels" to improve flow and pull etc.....but is it only really noise = confidence equation ? What do HP numbers ATW really matter anyway ? IF this helsp u win....its what gives u the edge :)
Yes - i am saying that i think i got more power. I wouldnt say i am alone in saying that it gives more power (as opposed to "i dont know anyone who has ever concluded that it was responsible for extra power").Quote:
Originally Posted by fried
I have a cat-back exhaust and a CAI - my car is certainly not as fast as an S2000 or a S14.....i gave them a bit of a run- no i didnt beat them.....nor was it that close to the S2000.....but it seemed closer than my other encounters. i was just trying to illustrate that my car seems more powerful than before - which obviously came out as "my car is as fast as XXX car"....though i tried to avoid this in my initial post.
Me and my mate (DC VTi-R) have always been very close in drags - with him previously winning more than me....but it seems that now my car usually pulls a tad on him. Yes - this could be due to a number of unrelated reasons - but both our tires are in same condition.....he has a cat-back as well...
Im not saying i got a 20wkw gain..... i cant speculate on numbers (wouldnt be more than a few)....but im just saying that my car seems faster due to my comparisons with other cars.
No flame taken :thumbsup:
True - i did not gain a lot of power from this mod!Quote:
Originally Posted by bennjamin
I do believe i gained SOME high end power. Although im not gonna dyno my car....sorry ben.
When i first wrote the article - i didnt put any assumptions as to whether i gained power or not. The noise was too overwhelming for me to objectively say whether my car was faster or not. I know about the pseudo effect etc.
It was only after running other cars that i noticed an improvement.
When two relatively even cars are matched up against eachother (my civic and my mate's ingtegra), a very small amount of extra power can make the difference between winning and losing.
...I think the main problem is that i wrote the CAI review along with a couple of experiences, which maybe i shouldnt have put in. They dont really objectively tell anything......they were more - 'had to be there' moments.
Guys- im honestly not one of those guys that sais 'i got 10kw from this and 15kw from this'....and then said he has a fast car. Im always skeptical of people who claim they made power gains.
But in reality - all im saying is that my car seems a little faster than when it was stock.
:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by VTEC16
cool mike!
yeah, i wasnt having a go, cos i know u mentioned that
1) u werent making calls on power
2) the extra noise in the intake could not have been assumed to be power vs noise
etc.
i was just curious about the mystical powers of this intake lol - esp on an ek4 with intake and catback vs a dc2 with catback.
again, in all situations, theres no absolutes, and anyone could end up pulling on the other car - but again in my experience, a stock dc2 (+ muffler only) vs an ek4 with j's racing intake, trust catback, lightweight race rims, cam timing adjustment etc, would only ever end with the dc2 pulling away.
but eitherway, lol - great write up, and info on ur experiences !!!
nice write up mate, intake mods definately sound mad when vtec kicks in :D
u mustve got lucky... coz a honda with just cai cannot beat a dc2 or s2k or s14 lol... blame the drivers.. as for power gains.. a 2-4kW gain.. is still quiet wishful..
but nice mod tho!
:)
he only mentioned that he beat his friends dc2 dude. the s2k adn s14 were just examples of his car pulling a little harder than before, hence "scarying" theose drivings.
:wave:
I have exhuast aswell....and as said above (thanks fried)- my car is not faster than any turbo silvia nor an S2K... 2-4kW would be great - but not unacheivable in some parts of the power curve. Not that im saying i got that much.Quote:
Originally Posted by [stealth]