FAQ- Cold air/short ram intakes

[Crapdaz]

damn man just converted my SRI back to CAI and can tell the car is alot smoother but throttle response has decreased, but nice shrill sound when revving.

[Sosa_85]

I'm looking to buy a sri from ebay which comes complete pod filter. My question is: Can I only install the sri without having a cai system?

Eventually I'll do CAI but for now I'll start with sri, but just wanted to clear this up first. thanks

[kazam]

i dont get it, when u install an intake, u either have a SRI OR a CAI, u can't have both, unless u got a SRI with a DIY cold air feed.... is that wat u mean

[Sosa_85]

Yes, I should have made reference to this thread to make it more clear... http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthr...ight=resonator
Cool, thanks for clearing that up!

[6-SpeedManual]

i don't give a f*ck what 3/4 of ricers may think. extended ram pipes is completely useless. think about it... your extending the pipe. you loose response immediately. only thing that works for n/a cars is shortening the intake pipe as much as you can. usually relocate the battery to the boot. then pod filter enclosure along with a cold air feed. pod filter must be high flow. usually resulting in poor filteration. theres always a compromise between filteration and flow.

[Chriskoss]

i don't give a f*ck what 3/4 of ricers may think. extended ram pipes is completely useless. think about it... your extending the pipe. you loose response immediately. only thing that works for n/a cars is shortening the intake pipe as much as you can. usually relocate the battery to the boot. then pod filter enclosure along with a cold air feed. pod filter must be high flow. usually resulting in poor filteration. theres always a compromise between filteration and flow.

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I agree with you man

[T-onedc2]

i don't give a f*ck what 3/4 of ricers may think. extended ram pipes is completely useless. think about it... your extending the pipe. you loose response immediately. only thing that works for n/a cars is shortening the intake pipe as much as you can. usually relocate the battery to the boot. then pod filter enclosure along with a cold air feed. pod filter must be high flow. usually resulting in poor filteration. theres always a compromise between filteration and flow.

There's a bigger compromise with SRI compared to a well designed CAI. Perhaps you should do some research.

[6-SpeedManual]

There's a bigger compromise with SRI compared to a well designed CAI. Perhaps you should do some research.

Yeah your right. you compromise the fact that you won't get points from other ricers.

Please elaborate your statement?

btw I didn't say anything about a short ram, i'm talking about shortening of the factory intake piping.

[integral90]

i don't give a f*ck what 3/4 of ricers may think. extended ram pipes is completely useless. think about it... your extending the pipe. you loose response immediately. only thing that works for n/a cars is shortening the intake pipe as much as you can. usually relocate the battery to the boot. then pod filter enclosure along with a cold air feed. pod filter must be high flow. usually resulting in poor filteration. theres always a compromise between filteration and flow.

You're pretty wrong. A well design CAI will tunnel the air and give it much more velocity. You will lose response slightly going to a longer pipe of course, but when you're talking about 15-20cm of extra pipe on a system that can be like 100cm long, it's pretty trivial, especially when the air is travelling faster in the CAI.

[T-onedc2]

Yeah your right. you compromise the fact that you won't get points from other ricers.

Please elaborate your statement?

btw I didn't say anything about a short ram, i'm talking about shortening of the factory intake piping.

I don't like ricers any more than you, and you clearly don't like them.

I think I misread your post, if you mean extending the stock CAI inlet without giving thought to improved flow, then yes I agree.

[mr_vti_s]

yow fellaz just a quick question about this thread, does the size of the pipe matters? like 3inch or 2.5inch?? does is make any difference? thanks

[wazza7]

great info guys, my euro has a k and n typhoon short ram with cai extention, i think i may now use the cai after hearing this good exlpanation. cheers!