your intake or cai? Might be stupid question but someone told me if you dont that the car will take in too much cold air & its not good for car? What do you guys do? Take it off? or leave it on?

 

Your kidding right?

 

a.k.a. Leave the intake on and you will see better performance, there are no detriments of cold weather. The person who told you that is a moron, and probably a riceboy.
-Cyrus

 

did he tell you to remove the engine as well?
oh yeah, the neon blue interior lights help performance in the winter.

 

i know thats why i got them

 

did he tell you to re route your exhaust to the interior of the car to help the inside heat up faster when its cold too?

 

No, I sure don't everything stays as is!!! The only thing I'm going to do is put a K&N filter on that's it!!!

 

Hahahahahah....

Apparently optimal temperture for the motor is 42 degrees F. I think I read this in some hot rod mag.

 

this sounds like the my old mechanic tried to tell me to save my money and don't bother modding my car. (he even went as far as saying "if you want a performance car buy a mustang gt") he told me not to change my stock intake because in the winter i'll run into problems and said how some guy with a dakota who had intake got water into it and blah blah blah. the only thing i'd be nervous about with cai is that snow and ice could get in that little hole in the wheel well cuz that's where most of the snow ends up when you're driving. but then again i don't have cai so i don't worry about that.

 

snow gets piled up behind the front wheels and behind the rear wheels, when u drive in snow the snow gets thrown back, the filter is in the front fender ahead of the front wheels, only way for snow to get piled up there is if u were doing a lot of driving in reverse.

 

you know that "too much cold air" is what people strive to get instead of too little hot air, to improve performance. thats how they got the name of a "cold air intake" and thats why people put them on their cars.

 

Actually there is truth to to much cold air!

I'm guessing who told you this is old school.

Look at an old car before fuel injection, and there is a tube that takes hot air from the exaust to warm up the air comming in (carb heat), also in airplanes, on a car with the carb if the air is to cold it will not vaporize and will not burn.

As stated, fuel injected, computer controlled cars fixed this problem, as I keep my CAI on all year round!

 

Thanks....at least someone can answer the question right