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spike_africa 11-03-2004 10:23 AM

anyone have some before and after CAI time slips?
 
i am curius as to wethor not i am the only one who gained power froma CAI.

i have the MAC fenderwel and it dropped me almost a tenth and i gained a soild 1mph in the 1/4 mile. i am not sure why every says they dont do anything. or maybe its jsut me.

02wt5sp 11-03-2004 04:03 PM

it might just be you, or the temp and stuff where you race. I took my mac cai off and put the stock air box with a k&n, and gained a tenth and a mph.

Blue02GT 11-03-2004 06:15 PM

Spike, I gain 1 mph on my trap speed by removing the stock air box and pulling the headlight at the track. As far as a kit, I think most of the gain is from the K & N filter.

xcler8 11-04-2004 07:15 AM

I really like the STEEDA design...It is a straight shot with with a heat shield...I have heard bad things about putting a big curve right before the Mass Air Sensor...also the end of the Steeda filter is another filter which means it is basically open on top, so when you remove the headlight it will give it a 'ram air' effect on the 1/4 mile...not much help, but more than nothing!

4.6 Love 11-05-2004 01:31 PM

CAI's are crap in my opinion..but they do make the engine bay look alot sharper! :)

spike_africa 11-05-2004 01:49 PM

well i am gonna do some back to back testing sunday at OSW, we will see if it helps or slows me down.

xcler8 11-08-2004 08:47 AM

How did it go!!!?

spike_africa 11-08-2004 11:01 AM

well i got to play with it at funday sunday and i only got in a few runs about 5 total 2 with mac and 3 without and the mac setup was about the same with maybe an extra mph here and there. i am gonna mess with it wednesday on my local test and tune and make my desicence weither or not i will keep it our sell it for a timing adjuster.


but i do belive it was worth a good 1 or 1.5 mph in the 1/4. we will see when i get to make alot more passes cause here the wednesday is very slow i can get aobut 15 runs in to make a better decission. but i also belive that if i pulled my headlight i could get the 1 extra mph out of the stock setup.

SonicBlue03GT 12-07-2004 05:14 PM

When I put my K&N cold air kit on, I dropped almost 2 tenths, and picked up 1.5 mph in the quarter. THe K&N FIPK is to me, the best on the market right now. Easy to install, very well thought out, and great quality.

WaterDR 12-07-2004 05:44 PM

I gained 6 mph and dropped 2 seconds with my CAI...................
















Just kidding.

Vert_Lover 12-08-2004 04:14 AM

Not sure how true this is... but u have to watch immediately when you change the CAI... apparently it may lean out your fuel mixture for a while until the computer relearns the fuel curve... i.e. you're gonna see a bigger gain the night you put the CAI on then you would a month later which is probably what we "should" be concerned with...

ThePunisher 12-08-2004 07:14 AM


Originally Posted by Vert_Lover
Not sure how true this is... but u have to watch immediately when you change the CAI... apparently it may lean out your fuel mixture for a while until the computer relearns the fuel curve... i.e. you're gonna see a bigger gain the night you put the CAI on then you would a month later which is probably what we "should" be concerned with...

I've also heard similar things depending on who you talk to. Your computer will learn that a change has been made and adjust for it to a certain degree. How much it adjusts Im not sure. Something I thought about myself, If anyone in the denver area has tried CAI being that the air is much less dense 1 mile up, I would think a free flowing intake would be more benificial in that type of area rather than at sea level.


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