My CAI vs RAI experiance Options

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

I've had a few different systems or air intakes on my car throughout the years. And I just thought I would give a little write up on my experiance. Everyone seems to think that the CAI is the best. I thought this too. I've had a CAI on my car for quite awhile, and decided to go to RAI just to be doing. When I switched, I noticed a nice gain on the bottem. I'm not sure if I would get the same numbers up top as I would with a CAI, but the RAI showed good response. I didn't think that shortening the pipe would really help this out, but it really does. The pipe length is about 1/2 what it was with the CAI. I'm going to try and cut it and put the filter as close to the throttle body as possable to see how it responds. With all the air moving through the motor at speed, who is to say the RAI style wouldn't pick up some fresher air, or at least not as hot of air as it would if it was ran at a stand still.

This post has been edited by Bigmeanbulldog55: Oct 1, 2006 - 5:10 PM

[Rayme]

One thing I noticed...though I can't say for sure what was the reason...

I had a 5th gen with a short ram, it was somewhat easy to reach the fuel cut in 3rd gear(I would accidently hit it when passing, sometimes).

In my 6th gen, the engine just seems to work so hard to reach the fuel cut(the poor engine has no more power at 6200rpm) in 3rd gear with stock airbox, it would make sense cause air flow really is important in high rpms. I got an intake coming in and going to post my findings...

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

One thing I noticed...though I can't say for sure what was the reason...

I had a 5th gen with a short ram, it was somewhat easy to reach the fuel cut in 3rd gear(I would accidently hit it when passing, sometimes).

In my 6th gen, the engine just seems to work so hard to reach the fuel cut(the poor engine has no more power at 6200rpm) in 3rd gear with stock airbox, it would make sense cause air flow really is important in high rpms. I got an intake coming in and going to post my findings...

This really varies from car to car. I've driven other 6gens, and none seem to have the power mine does. I've never driven a turbo or swapped 6gen though. If you take good care of things, you keep compression and you make things run better. Back when I had my Impulse, it had a few NA mods done to it, but nothing real big. People always said, "this is really fast for these cars, does it have a turbo or something?" I would just say, "No, I just take care of it." Read my performance mods under my profile, and you'll see there isn't much there, but it does say it has a good tune up. That's were you get the difference. Oh, and I don't have that much power at 6200 rpm either, that's just a general 5s thing. I've got some plans to see if I can't at least kind of get around that. A new intake manifold set up, a simple EMS piggy back system, and some major head work. I'm not paying $650 for a set of cams for this thing unless it upped my hp by at least 20.