Good CAI for Speed3?

[ResilientMike]

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But yes, hydrolock is very very hard to do and unless you live in a place that floods all the time, it's nothing to worry about.

 

[Zimmer]

hydo lock ?!?!? ha ha ha ...anyone who hydro locks their car with a cai is a friggin moron and deserves it ! i bought the mazdaspeed cai because it was the only one available when i bought my car. knowing what i know now, i say get whatever is the cheapest $$$. all the bells and whisltes some of these places try to charge you extra for do mean s***. like a air flow straightener. you dont need it. sure it keeps keep you fuel trims close to zero, but does that matter ?? no, not one tiny bit. i have seen my car have long term fuel trims off by less than 2% or as high a 18% off and guess what, the car never missed a beat ! thats why the ecu has fuel trim correction. i say buy a real CAI not SRI reset the battery and give the car 5 driving cycle to adjust your fuel trims thenbeat the piss out of it. that is my method AFTER EVERY MOD !!
the cobb SRI being metal might not get warm like a cai will, it just sucks up the hot engine bay air ! it has been proven time and time again though on a turbo car THAT IS MOVING there is almost no difference in actual inlet air temps between a cai and SRI. but at a stop you will heat soak faster with a sri.

the CAI will have improved torque & HP at lower RPMs or from a dead start over the SRI due to the fact its drawing cooler air more readily available ... am I with you on that??? ... I haven't seen a MS3 dyno test with their CAI any know of one (I've searched only a little because I was also convinced on the COBB SRI good bang for the buck...sounds like can't really go wrong)

 

[MS3077]

the CAI will have improved torque & HP at lower RPMs or from a dead start over the SRI due to the fact its drawing cooler air more readily available ... am I with you on that??? ... I haven't seen a MS3 dyno test with their CAI any know of one (I've searched only a little because I was also convinced on the COBB SRI good bang for the buck...sounds like can't really go wrong)

This hasn't been proven only a theory. Several members have already dynoed their cars at the same time with a CAI and SRI and the differences were slim to none. (driver311 comes to mind)

Also, Cobb tuning said that they didn't see a need for a CAI in our car hence the reason they only have a SRI out. I think they know a little something about performance.

Also, hydrolock is a reality not a fantasy. I've known people that have had it happene to them here in florida.

 

[Zimmer]

This hasn't been proven only a theory. Several members have already dynoed their cars at the same time with a CAI and SRI and the differences were slim to none. (driver311 comes to mind)

Also, Cobb tuning said that they didn't see a need for a CAI in our car hence the reason they only have a SRI out. I think they know a little something about performance.

Also, hydrolock is a reality not a fantasy. I've known people that have had it happene to them here in florida.

Ya in theory... I suppose same theory applies to the intercooler.... so prob why they stuck with a SRI. eitherway good point

 

[AllLostThings]

I'll say this. If I had waited another 2 months or so I'd have gotten the Cobb SRI and not my CAI. If for no other reason, just the easy of cleaning it.

 

[nighthawk358]

I live in Puerto Rico and its very tropical. Here it rains a lot and im scared of hydro locking because floods do occur here. I think Im going for the COBB SRI hehe