If our intake tube is hot to the touch it means our ceramic coating is doing its job, let me explain. Cold Air intakes do not create heat, they just absorb and transfer the heat that is being produced from your engine. If you have 2 engines that are producing the same amount of heat and one has our intake and the other has a plastic intake on it and our intake tube feels hot to the touch and the plastic tube does not, then ask yourself where is that heat going?
The answer is right into your intake air! The whole point of a "cold air intake" is to keep the
air cooler, not the outside of the componets cooler. We ceramic coat our intake tube inside and out, the same ceramic coating you would find on a nice set of headers We do this so when the tube takes on heat from the engine it keeps that heat on the outside of the tube as opposed to soaking through to the inside of the tube getting passed on to the intake air.
This ceramic coating as well as the insulated airbox is what helps our system perform so well compared to others, and is also why we can keep IAT's within 2 degrees of ambient air on average. I hope this explains things a little better, please remember we do a
lot of R&D and testing before we release a product, and everything we have engineered is for the best performance gains possible.
Let me know if you (or anyone else) has any questions. Thanks for choosing CAI Inc.!