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by SalV6 » 27 Nov 2007, 9:32 am
You guys are on the right track, but on the wrong part.
Insulating the pipe with reflective material, will worsen the short ram air further.
Because the hot air that you get in the short ram enters through the cone filter, so making the piping insulative, will keep that air heated.
If you put reflective material or insulate a CAI, there is no point, because it’s a CAI. hehehe its breathing in cold air from the outside anyways.
The aim is to get the cold air from the filter, that’s why many new intakes are starting to have some sort of cooling system at the tip of the cone filter, but those hardly make a huge difference.
I actually designed a short Air RAM intake, but didn't have the funds or time to manufacture it and become a millionaire. lol
its so simple, if you know how a Subaru sti had a hood air ram, you will notice, when you lift the hood, there is a intercooler sitting right there.
well I got an idea one day, same thing a air ram on a car, and under it is a sheet metal where the air enters and glides on into a spiral, and into the cone, the cone is fully covered by the sheet metal, and when the air enters the vent it pushes fans round and round, so the air is FORCED into the cone filter, then when the air enters the cone, there is a small pipe in there, that throws cold air in it, almost like cold ice, this module is connected to the AC, so its working as a daily device, when this are mixes, it is again spiralled in to the pipe, where it is forced into the TB at faster speed then the air entered and much colder temperature, giving a constant 100% hp gain, this system could be easily turned off by turning off the ac switch, and just running with the forced outside air temperature.
The average cold temperature produced was about 2 degrees to a maximum of -1, we are still working to get up to -10, because we have tested normal intakes in that cold weather, and its unbelievable, the amount of pull you get, omg you feel like you have a turbo on your car.
But intakes, are for fast acceleration response, better fuel economy (when driving normal) and easy hp gains, and that can all be achieved one way, by keeping the air as cold as possible, which going inside the engine, and if the engine stays cool, the longer it will last, and better it will perform.
You guys know this. When you start you car after one day, at night time, let it warm up for 1 minute, drive normal for 5 mins then punch that pedal, your car will fly, but eventually you will become way slower as you engine heats up.
But on the bright side, both you guys are right, and if you guys become more obsessive about it, you will probably end up designing some sort of forced cooling intake system, hehhe, and the funny thing is if you have the time and funds, in about two years you could become a millionaire just by this one product, specially in the gulf, where both SIR & CAI are victims of hot air, you guys almost get ripped off on that product, it should actually be a law that you guys should get intakes for cheaper as your cost vs hp is lower then people like us who live in colder countries.
Oh man I tried not to go technical even then with simple words I ended up with so much lol.