i know this is no supercharger or turbo or anything but it would be an affordable way to gain hp without having to pay the price of another maxima. Well just experimenting. My domestic loving friend at my job was thinking about having his friends shop weld together a dual cai, where it takes air from where our normal PR CAI gets air from (driver fender) and also get it from passenger side area. This would bring in twice the air and although that wouldnt make a difference with stock throttle bodies since it would still suck in the same air (due to size, like sucking through a skinny straw) if we were to get bigger throttle bodies (pathfinder or have an even bigger one custom made), what kind of gains would we be talking about here? He brought this up and i kind of laughed at him at first but i wondered for a second if this could lead to something. Just pondering....

P.S. - i know i'm going to get with twin turbo jokes so i might as well slap the tag on now

 

pointless with no additional gains. This was discussed 2 weeks ago...

 

u can only pull in as much air as the engine will want, and any cai is more than enough to get all the air the engine requires, no on the other hand IF u had a tt setup and used two cai's there it would work haha srry i had to i just read that post like 3 days ago

 

also, with all the extra piping i would imaging that you would lose a lot of hp, especially on the top end.

but if you had a show car and didnt car about performance, i think 2 CAI tubes, chrome dipped would look super nice in the engine bay.

 

So if I had one intake with a 6" pipe and another with a 6' pipe the power they give me will be the same. Is that what you're saying???

 

hmm...didnt know this was discussed before...

 

instead gettin air from the passenger side, i say shorten the intake pipe by gettin the air infront of the radiator.

so bascially you'll have a place racing cold air intake setup + injen cold air intake setup.

just a thought...

 

i say let mecca try out this setup and dyno it for us. the result on the paper will conclude everything

 

What he said, I think that too, would work alot better.

 

How could this work? All you are doing is increasing the volume of available air--which with a 3" intake you have more than enough for what the engine takes without it being forced-

 

Actually.....What you could do instead is create it as a RAM air setup...
Have them fashion some metal scoops for mounting under the front frame/bumper and then pipe that into your modded CAI.

On a side note:

I would kill if someone made RAM air or Cowl induction hoods for our cars. Then you could just run a hybrid induction setup, and the hood would take care of your low end power.

 

as you all know cai don't do much on the high end cuz of the long piping and it's only 3" diam. so f u wanna increase the high end u have to get a shorter pipe and increase diameter but then u 'll sacrafice the low end , what i think this setup will help on the high end giving the engine that urgent amount of air from the other pipe, it will be a killer f u have a variable runners oh yahhhhhhhhhh, peace