sri w/ hood vents is a good idea. really depends on where you want the powerband. i'd personally take a lengthy sri with cold air supply over a cai.

 

i'd say the k&n typhoon(what i have) and the injen SRI are the longest of the SRI. combine that with a hood vent and u probably got the best of both worlds

 

the SRI gets hot air not only from the pipe getting heated, but also from sucking hot air from under the hood

my oil temp is 240F, water temp is 200F.. so what do you think the underhood temps are?

the whole straw argument is invalid anyway, if you look at the cross sectional diameter of the straw vs. the length and compare that to the CAI.. you will need a straw that is 1/2 in diameter.. i know i can suck quiet a bit from a 1/2 straw

when your "racer" friends have 1000hp.. they are not really concern about the intake temps..

when i am at a light, and the first 200 feet i am sucking hot air.. i care

-joe

 

Only problem I see is that that car has 1100HP, the type of intake he has isn't going to make much difference at all. With 162HP, you notice small changes really easily.

 

Damn i think i've read everything about CAI vs SRI and i can't still make my desicion. I live in Québec city so in the spring time, when the snow become water, it can be dangerous i think of hydrolock my engine with a CAI. I could remove my CAI when the winter comes but with a SRI, i could keep it on all seasons. But in the other hand, the price of the SRI went up and they is now a difference of 40$ between de both. I know it have been discuss a lot of time but what do you guys thing is the best: drop a full sec. on the 0-60 or 10hp added? And i have another question: with the SRI i should feel a lose of power at low and mid power right but an improvement at higher rpm right? And what about the CAI? I don't know if i go for the power of the sefety of my engine (and my self conscience). Thnaks for your answers guys!

 

I don't really think you lose anything w/ SRI, it's just not as beneficial as the CAI... From my personal opinion, people will probably come up w/ numbers as to why I'm wrong... But my *** in seat test doesn't show any loss of power!!!

 

lol i would get that butt dyno checked

i have a injen CAI

orginally i had the stock air intake with the k&n drop in filter, and i installed the SRI portion of the injen intake.. drove it for 2 days and i can tell you from idle to 4500 you lose all your torque.. it felt so bad i didn't drive the car.. i was better off with the stock airbox!!!

i went and install the rest of the CAI after getting the AEM bypass valve and it was way better than both stock and SRI

if you going to spend $$$, get the k&n drop in for your airbox and you are golden.. save yoru money

i have driven 6 years with a CAI and not one hydrolock (knock on wood) in Toronto, don't worry about it

-joe

 

Salut mec!! I am from montreal so I know exactly what you are going thru about hydrolock! But with the AEM bypass valve it should be fine
I am getting my Injen CAI today so i'll let you know how it feel up in our province. Are you a member on quebecmitsubishi forum??

 

Yeah i know about the bypass valve but the injen and the aem cai are too much expansive for me compare to rrm and i plan to buy a few things from them (axelback, downpipe, ecu...) so i only want rrm stuff. NA mods only for me cauz i don't want to invest that much in my car (4200$US for a turbokit is like a year of salary cauz im a student and i only have a part time job). So for me it's the rrm cai or the rrm sri... and i will not use by pass valve cauz the rrm cai = 1 piece so i don't want to cut it.

 

There's something wrong with the injen design, then. my SRI with just an adapter plate on the MAS made everything better across the powerband- and even made back some torque that was lost by the stupid test pipe that I had installed at the time.

 

different car, different characteristics

on the mivec cars, the underhood temps are higher and there is less space, so hotter the air gets.. and the SRI is sucking all this hot air in

when the engine bay is cold, SRI was great.. then it just drops power like mad

-joe

 

not if you keep the front of the airbox on with the snorkel. rate at which the air is heated at a stop is slower and you get a small air cooling effect while moving. doesn't compensate completely, but better than leaving the sri to the open engine bay.

 

heats up faster if you are slower because it's not drawing air in .. you are just sitting duck

-joe

 

ehhhhh, it's all relative and subjective to each person's experience at this point. i've had a sri with stock elbow and just a filter, i've had the rmr sri, and i've had an aem cai. the stock modified for sri had the metal part of my filter(which is at the front tip) as hot as the intake manifold, which is pretty hot to the touch. bogged like a b*tch. the rmr sri had the filter luke warm. not hot. not cold. and the part of the filter exposed to the stock snorkel was very cold. and we all know the how the aem cai works out.

just saying using the snorkel and front part of the airbox does help to an extent and better than just using a plain sri open to the engine bay. just a suggestion since people do own the sri. i'd recommend the rmr intake to the auto guys, but it seems you cats need to modify stuff to get it on.

 

I've had both a RRM CAI and now an AEM SRI and I don't notice one bit of power loss even in the lower RPM's. I guess every car is different, but maybe the AEM setup is better than Injens when it come to a SRI. I live in the same city as Sillypuddy as well so it's not the difference in temperature.