Home
What's new
Latest activity
Authors
Store
Latest reviews
Search products
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New listings
New products
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
Cart
Cart
Loading…
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Change style
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
Cobra Forums
The Terminator
Engine/Tuning
Aluminum CAI vs Plastic CAI
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Brad" data-source="post: 1705977" data-attributes="member: 4683"><p>It hardly makes a difference, except the metal piece aesthetically looks better, which was my point. I said I was messing around about calling it a POS, but honestly, if you think a plastic shield is going to do anything for you over a metal one you’ve got something else coming to you. Air is not sitting idle behind that shield, all the shield does is forces the filter to draw air from the fender wall over drawing from the whole engine compartment. Air is not in there long enough to be affected by a plastic sheild or a metal sheild. Believe it or not, I've tested this. Used a digital thermometer next to the filter to record temps in front of the filter, clearly the densecharger held the lowest temp, but the temp I recorded with the steeda, vs the stock plastic cover was the exact same. Those CAI with the 90 degree elbow into the fender, then the other 90 degree elbow down to the filter are plastic, and they do disperse heat, but you’ve just added two completely unnecessary 90 degree turns to your intake track, congrats! The most functional CAI I’ve seen are those plastic ones that box the whole filter out and leave only the fender wall as the air source, those seem pretty good, but then again, I’m sure they’re not making that huge a difference seeing the steeda unit still forces the filter to draw most of its air from the fender wall, plus I think they just look like hell, no paint is going to fix that eye sore. I could see your point if motor temps superheated the metal on the heat sheild, but that's not the case, as a matter of fact I was beating my car today, got home, decided to wax some of my polished parts, and the heat sheild was cool to the touch! I've had several CAIs on my car, and byfar the steeda is the best one I've used. You said a plastic sheild does more for HP, how do you know?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brad, post: 1705977, member: 4683"] It hardly makes a difference, except the metal piece aesthetically looks better, which was my point. I said I was messing around about calling it a POS, but honestly, if you think a plastic shield is going to do anything for you over a metal one you’ve got something else coming to you. Air is not sitting idle behind that shield, all the shield does is forces the filter to draw air from the fender wall over drawing from the whole engine compartment. Air is not in there long enough to be affected by a plastic sheild or a metal sheild. Believe it or not, I've tested this. Used a digital thermometer next to the filter to record temps in front of the filter, clearly the densecharger held the lowest temp, but the temp I recorded with the steeda, vs the stock plastic cover was the exact same. Those CAI with the 90 degree elbow into the fender, then the other 90 degree elbow down to the filter are plastic, and they do disperse heat, but you’ve just added two completely unnecessary 90 degree turns to your intake track, congrats! The most functional CAI I’ve seen are those plastic ones that box the whole filter out and leave only the fender wall as the air source, those seem pretty good, but then again, I’m sure they’re not making that huge a difference seeing the steeda unit still forces the filter to draw most of its air from the fender wall, plus I think they just look like hell, no paint is going to fix that eye sore. I could see your point if motor temps superheated the metal on the heat sheild, but that's not the case, as a matter of fact I was beating my car today, got home, decided to wax some of my polished parts, and the heat sheild was cool to the touch! I've had several CAIs on my car, and byfar the steeda is the best one I've used. You said a plastic sheild does more for HP, how do you know? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cobra Forums
The Terminator
Engine/Tuning
Aluminum CAI vs Plastic CAI
Top