alright so i did the poor man's intake a while ago, and i had a lot of problems with my car eating gas worse than with stock intake. i took it off since but i was wondering if that is normal or how i could try to fix that. it was a cone filter i bought off ebay, could it be that its because of the crummy filter or is that not likly?

 

If the filter is crappy, it might actually restrict the amount of air that's going in... next time don't be cheap and get quality parts, in this case, K and N.

 

Poor mans intake?
That would be the stock system that you simply leave alone.
It costs $0.00 and oddly enough performs the best of any intake out there for our cars.

 

Not necessarily better than a PR CAI with stock resonator...

 

keep it stock , ive tried the poorman, best was cai but removed that too after a while, put the stock back in after my tune up and wow did i miss it, if u do poorman def just buy k&n but i say keep it stock

 

wow did you miss what. the stock intake or the CAI?

Noim getting the pr cai yay! do you have this set up? if so i have questions

 

you could have burn more gas if you created a air leak somehow making it run rich?

 

By getting a higher flow intake, you get more air in, more air=more gas, that's probably why your mileage is going down. I too have that mod with a steel mesh filter, and I think my mileage is going down also.

 

Im getting PR CAI as well... It should be at my door sometime this week. Ive heard many things about it-vs-stock-vs-hybrid-vs-ebay. I think that its an even amount of people that like one over the other for an unknown reason. I like PR because it looks nice and has nice sound to it/cleans up my engine bay. oh well.

 

I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand that the "gains" you see from going back to stock isn't because of the restrictive snorkel or the stock airbox. It's the stock RESONATOR that improves throttle response and low-end punch. It's because of this reason that a true CAI with the stock resonator > *.

 

well i did hack my box ,but also took off the little box on the bottom connected to the air snorkel and block the bottom hole of the snorkel ... and let me tell I'm not buying no cai or else...... im good ...

 

What about stock resonator w/ a filter at the end of the MAF?

 

Right now im running the best poor mans intake ever

No bottom half, and i have the filter just straped to the top....

The only reason it may make me burn more gas is because i love the sound of the vq at 4K and up??

 

It's better than most setups, but it still sucks in hot underhood air.

 

What about the stock intake with the snorkel removed? Or an OSCAI? Anybody looked at the power loss/gains from these?

I like the sound of my stock airbox with a drop-in K&N without the snorkel. It's easy, cheap, and sounds cool.