DaFlyinSkwirl

power shifter is done man, i just gotta get the funds together to start the first batch.. christmas and all that

hey man I'm from nj and you posted jersey shore stuff, thats pretty clever! I never would have thought of that

besides its the internet.. what am I gonna do make you guys look like assh... oh wait...

joshc.

I was just thinking I had seen that shop before in pictures only with a skwirl in it. NOw it all makes sense.

Do_WorkSS

just out of curiousity...are you wearing 7's jeans?

Gestapo007

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09sscalicobalt

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haha uhh ohh i got a guido on my nuts now

Gestapo007

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emilypaige

is that a brand? lol if so, no


all these gifs make me LOL
no guidos here

DaFlyinSkwirl

MastaShaKe_88

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lol you guys are trippin

CudaJoe

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Weird my SRI sucks in cool air? Maybe I installed it wrong.

09sscalicobalt

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haha must be a jersey thing

DaFlyinSkwirl

CAI is a marketing gimmick.. I forget where it was posted since it was so long ago, but there was a negligable difference in intake temp from CAI to SAI.. we're talking percentages of a horsepower difference.

an intake is a tube with a filter on it... cold air, ram air, whatever.. all gimmicks unless there is a supercharger or a turbo compressing the air one vs. the other won't show much difference.

SAI is better than CAI imo.. simpler and cheaper for the same result

MastaShaKe_88

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yea, it'll do that unless you install a BOV and cut off your antenna...make sure you get tuned for that antenna mod tho

MastaShaKe_88

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well.. yea, there was a thread on here about it a couple moths ago..

everybody basically...... basically agreed that the major difference is that the SRI is gonna give you more low end hp/tq an a CAI is gonna give more high end hp/tq...
basically

09sscalicobalt

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if you put a sri and a cai intake on the same car and dyno both the cai is gonna make more power MOST of the time go to aem or injens website and go look

DaFlyinSkwirl

I would want to say the opposite.. a longer intake path would usually mean more low end and a shorter path would usually mean more top end.

of course, this may only work to runner length/ volume after the throttle body and not really count for the intake... which I guess when you're WOT and at atmospheric pressure (read: 100kpa), just adds more 'plenum volume'...

I'm a bit rusty on my fluid dynamics.. haven't done much research on it lately.
I would also imagine that lengthening the intake would increase the time it takes for the air in the tube to drop to the same kpa as the intake manifold, but again.. i'm rusty..

DaFlyinSkwirl

dude c'mon... they are manufacturers.. they're going to publish stuff in order to make you WANT to buy their stuff..

independent testing is the only stuff that would hold any water... but one intake vs. another is splitting hairs... its going to be a 1 horsepower difference if that... and if you know anything, temperature change, atmospheric pressure, and a bunch of other factors can cause power to fluctuate from one moment to the next.

thats why dyno runs even in rapid succession have a percentage of difference from one run to the next with the same car... CAI vs SRI is going to fall within this range of difference, therefore making it useless to argue one way or the other.

if you like CAI, thats fine. if you like SRI, thats fine too... but again, arguing one vs. the other is splitting hairs.. its all personal preference.

DaFlyinSkwirl

sort of on topic, anyone have any experience with the LE5 intake manifold on an L61 attached to an auto?

I've heard it makes them slower and more sluggish, any truth to this?

Maupin SS/SC

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im too lazy to read but you need some clean up under the hood

emilypaige

no stealing my thread pj

emilypaige

I need to clean up my whole car, but thats besides the point

DaFlyinSkwirl

OMG TEH IS DIRTYYY!?!?

we live in a temperate zone and have been getting smashed by snow.. cleaning the car to have it get covered in salt again a day later is pointless... it'll get cleaned when the snow lets up guys.. its her daily driver.

MastaShaKe_88

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^^guy calm down, why yous so defensive eh? You musta been breathin that Jersey air 2 long

CudaJoe

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Look... when a company claims 15hp over its competitors, they arent referring to their intake making 15 PEAK hp. They are saying they made 15 hp more than their competitor somewhere in the power band, most likely the low end. At most they probably could say they make 1 to 2 hp over a competitor which is really minicule and could be testing variability.

The SRI gets cold air just as much as any intake. Your engine bay is Fukin open. Try this test just for ***** ang giggles. Open your windows and drive 55mph with this weather we are having... Tell me your **** aint freezing, and cold air is no where but only warm air is... Your engine bay is more open to the outside weather than opening all your windows... the air moves around in your engine bay the same as it does in your cabin..

CudaJoe

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"yeah, but the engine is in the engine bay. It makes alot of heat"

It dissipates very quickly with a car moving...