Understood.

Unfortunately, buying the enclosed version or adding piping (the filter is already very close to the spot where a pipe would go, and I wonder how much of an improvement in perf you would get restricting air plow thru a small tube like the stock box did) is the antithesis of ballin on a budget.

Heck if $ was no issue, Id send her off to Chip Foose for bodywork, and then resurrect Don Yenko to work on the powertrain. Now THAT would be a noticeable improvement.


P.S. - FOR SHAME on he who changed my thread title! If you dont like Nappy Roots, thats fine, but dont kill the lyrics.

 

it doesn't cost all that much to send the filter into the fenderwall, just go to your local autozone and buy some spectre piping for like $6 a crack for 6" and your done

 

The filter is a monster. Its at least twice the size of the opening that the stock box breathed thru. The best I could do was aim the filter directly at said opening with about a 1" space from the lip that restricts further movement.

 

I know that aftermarket "cold air intakes" will flow more air, but how is the air any "colder"? The factory intake on my 99 Monte pulls air through a tube thats located in a hole in the sheet metal located near the drivers side headlight. This location is ahead of the engine and ahead of the radiator. It's pulling in regular, old outside air - not heated in any way prior to going into the housing and through the filter. So, at least in the case of my car, the air is no colder, there's just more of it available. Right?

 

I think it looks great. Enjoy it. Glad that it sounds better too.

 

The air inside our wizaird CAI is only a few degrees above outside air temp when the car is moving. Last time I went on a drive the outside air was 75 degrees and the IAT reading never went higher then 80 as long as I was moving. Most true CAI are insulated and enclosed while the factory air box is not insulated With a HAI its always gonna be well over 100 degrees, moving or not, when the engine is up to temperature

 

One must also factor in that my car is an automatic two-ton front wheel drive, non supercharged V6. How much power improvement are you really gonna feel in a car like that?

 

You won't feel an improvement in NA and SC but its more of a supporting mod for bigger and better mods and the engine won't have to work so hard to bring the air in

 

More than the loss of power from a heat-soaked IAT

 

Im sorry! I thought this was america!