Originally Posted by Brownhornitt
1.Go with the Injen True CAI. I think it's the best. His opinion because he has one.
2. It's possible, but see above response. The "ram" air, like the 4th generation Firebirds (if that is what you are referring to), has been proven to only work at ridiculous speeds. The ram air really acts as a cold air intake. So once again, I would just go with the Injen True CAI. If you are talking about short ram, then you need to think about heat soak. In which case you would get something that blocks the heat off from the rest of the engine bay. Of the current short ram set-ups, the Injen True CAI outperformed them all on the dyno. Not exactly. Only 4(?) were tested and the test gains were open to interpretation. If I remember they didn't have the highest gains and they were all within a reasonable amount to be close.
3. Electric fan? Where? Don't these cars already have electric fans? I have a friend who has a '70 Vette where the fan is connected to the crank. I don't think they operate like that anymore, though. I'm sure he meant the waterpump. Either way, these do have electric fans. I don't know about an AC option.
3. The CAI is still worth it, even without an exhaust system. Although, I do recommend getting a sweet exhaust system. I'm going DT shorty headers to Flowmaster exhaust. I say both the Flowmaster AMT and MRT 1.0 sound awesome.
4. Does just converting to long headers dramatically increase HP? Yes. But you want to increase airflow with the CAI, axel/cat-back exhaust, and a TUNE if you are doing LT headers. Again, not exactly. These all will maximize the overall gains, but LT headers will by themselves be a nice gain.
5. No. But the turbo will likely change the configuration of the intake set-up. Thus, making it useless.
6. The answer to this question starts wars here. I say Injen true CAI, and beyond that, I don't know. For performance, you would go LT headers, high flow cats, cat-back exhaust, and a necessary tune. Everybody has an opinion. It's the reason we all don't have the same car.
7. Yes, to a point. You still want backpressure. So don't open it too much.
8. They are. But no one has designed an intake/hood set-up, yet? I think? I haven't found one yet? Anyone do this, yet? I've seen some hoods that open to the area where some of the optional CAI's are sealed to the hood. Not even sure if they'd show much improvement.
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