CAI intake done? for you Options

[bdog_v]

hello I just installed the cold air intake on my 94 2.2 liter GT celica. It also has a header and straight through exhuast. I just bought the car a few months ago and it has 132,000 miles on it.

-So my kit ended up being the 3" diameter pipe that I did not want, but I made it fit anyway with a little grinding to open up the hole in the fender. It came with a reuseable cotton filter so I used it.
*Keep in mind I disconnected the battery to hook this up so the computer had to reset itself when I first drove it*

-After my first drive after about a half a mile, while accelerating hard through the gears in 4th gear it seemed to loose some acceleration. I'd say about 20% of its power and it almost felt like it missed while driving it, once in a while. So I drove easily back home and nothing seemed wrong so I took it back out and the missing and power loss was gone? It ran like normal. SO

-Is it possible this massive 3" CAI is flowing too much air and causing to too run lean?


-Is it possible that now that I have opened up the motor with header, exhaust, and CAI that maybe my fuel filter is holding back some gas flow (dirty) as I have not changed it yet and it maybe the original one?



-Or did the computer need more time to adjust to the new CAI???


-Has anyone experienced any weird symptoms like this after installing a CAI?


-Also can you run this in the winter? I have a feeling that it would be too cold.......


Thanks..... I will drive it 40 miles tomorrow to work and back to see what happens.....

[bdog_v]

-Well here is another idea my car does rev up higher with the new CAI, but I'd rather have quick response time. Would a smaller diameter intake tube help? * I doubt this as the air would still have to travel the same distance*



-Or would it be better to give up the idea of a cold air intake and put the open cone shaped air cleaner in the engine bay? *Has anyone done this? what where the results?*





-Lastly I am not sure if I buy the idea of the cause for *lag time in throttle response* being due to the longer air intake tube. The stock system still pulls its air from outside the inner fender even though the filter is a little closer.



-Another Idea what if one were to put a cone filter inline *in the engine bay closer to the throttle body* and have it encased somehow with a tube running to the outside of the engine bay for colder air?


-Or I like this idea better!!!
******keep the stock system use a K&N filter element get rid of the lower air box that was mounted inside the outer and inner fender and enlarge the hole where the air enters the upper air box with the filter inside.
To take it another step further someone could smooth out all the ribs inside the air box, or simply cut them out and sand em' down???? Wouldn't this idea keep the throttle response snappy and increase air flow via removing the bottom airbox and going to a K&N filter plus enlarging the hole it sucks from, this system would still be sucking cold air!!!!!??? Any thougths ideas???