Intake Temp Sensor Options

[tomazws]

When I was uninstalling the air filter box, there's this lil plug that you could just pull out. That's the temp sensor right?


What will happen if I forgot to drill a hole on my cold air intake to shove this sensor thru the tube?


Many thanks!

[urbandork]

To clear things up....

If you leave ur temp sensor just hanging under the hood. It will actually be reading hotter air then it would if it was in the stock air box. This sends rong data to the cars comps and i believe less fuel to the cylinders.

Basically while your intaking cold air (short rams not included) you comp is being told that its actually intaking WAYY hotter air. This is bad and in a sence defeats the whole idea of CAI.

Best solution is drill a whole and use the rubber peice thats on the stock airbox to hold the senor in the pipes.

If you look at teh CAI how to there are pix.

Another thing to note are those little resistors ppl sell on ebay promissing HP gains. What this does is trick ur engine into thinking its getting really cold air and thus thow more feul into the cylinders. While this isnt the best thing for the car it does show the importance of having the temp sensor actually sensoring the air that goes into the engine rather then WAY hot air thats in the engine bay.