Cold air or short Ram intake???
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Cold air or short Ram intake???
Hey people:
i am going to get an air intake for my 02 Lancer es, but having questions about the type of air intake, if you guys can tell me which is better~~~Cold air or short Ram intake?? and the differences between Cold air/short Ram~~~also which one is easier to install by yourself??? thanks
i am going to get an air intake for my 02 Lancer es, but having questions about the type of air intake, if you guys can tell me which is better~~~Cold air or short Ram intake?? and the differences between Cold air/short Ram~~~also which one is easier to install by yourself??? thanks
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There are no true CAI's that will fit an automatic Lancer. The transmission is too big to fit the standard AEM or Injen piping. Honestly though, the difference between running a short ram and a CAI is negligable. In my opinion you could just save yourself the money and trouble and go short ram.
EDIT: And yes, you can force fit them, but you're likely to damage the piping causing either a simple break in the piping or potentially causing pieces of the piping to be sucked into your intake manifold. Either way, in my estimation it's not worth running the risk for a difference that would barely show up on a dyno, much less the the roads.
There are no true CAI's that will fit an automatic Lancer. The transmission is too big to fit the standard AEM or Injen piping. Honestly though, the difference between running a short ram and a CAI is negligable. In my opinion you could just save yourself the money and trouble and go short ram.
EDIT: And yes, you can force fit them, but you're likely to damage the piping causing either a simple break in the piping or potentially causing pieces of the piping to be sucked into your intake manifold. Either way, in my estimation it's not worth running the risk for a difference that would barely show up on a dyno, much less the the roads.
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hobie, short ram will about the same as cai when your moving but it will make a tiny bit of a diffrence when you moving from a stop because of heat soak, so if you were racing another lancer with a short ram and you had a cai you might get just a little bit more power with a cai from takeoff to like 35mph, i know its just a tiny amount but why not, and also i think the cai looks cooler and the engine compartment looks a little cleaner without a big filter in there.
Yes, but you also need to consider the fact that the piping for the cai is gonna be warm also cuz of the heat inside the engine bay. Unless you plan on insulating the cai piping, I don't think there will be any difference between the two types of intakes.
Regardless of how cold the air is coming into the filter, it's still gonna warm up by the time it passes through all the piping and finally past the throttle body. That's why the general consensus is that there isn't a difference in gain between an sri and cai.
Regardless of how cold the air is coming into the filter, it's still gonna warm up by the time it passes through all the piping and finally past the throttle body. That's why the general consensus is that there isn't a difference in gain between an sri and cai.
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After look around the message board , i found a lot peopel have problem with Injen intake, either the intake is broken or something, so do you guys still think Injen is a good choice, or i should get the AEM intake???
