October 17 - Winking Lizard - Macedonia
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the speed isn't bad in rain, what tires are you running, with my blizzaks i hit 67mph in 3+inches of snow on 271, with my summer tires I usually cruise at 70mph in rain no problem, occasionally hit 95-100 but that's using carefull judgement, but yeah I WILL B THERE SATURDAY FOR SURE,
Oh it's not driving in the rain that bothers me. About a month ago or so we got a bad storm down here and while I was out in the Speed getting food I was caught in a little flash flood. Car stalled out in the lake and had to get it towed home. After draining what seemed to be at least 5 gallons of water out of the intake, intercooler, throttle, engine, turbo, and letting it dry for a couple days it actually started right up. It's been running fine since and chalked that up to my one get out of hydrolock free card. She no longer is out in any sort of moisture.
1) You're lucky. I was not so lucky with the Honda.
2) After that incident, I promptly decided no more CAI's.
3) If you have another get out of hydrolock free card, lemme know...
Holy crap dude, yeah I don't think you're gona encounter any flash floods this saturday, damn that sux, sorry but that's a little comical, I mean what are the odds.
And colder air doesn't make the turbo spool faster, it's a bigger header/downpipe/bigger catback system that makes it spool faster. The exhaust is what drives a turbo limited by the wastegate, more exhaust flow faster turbo spool. Turbos usually spin around 150 thousand rpm, inside in the opposing chamber the cold air thats getting sucked in through the cai is compressed, then it's pushed through the intercooler which now becomes even denser then it goes right into the engine in a nutshell. The exhaust port and fresh air ports completely separate, the exhaust is the driving force of the turbo, which can be more or less depending on your setup, bigger cai, downpipe, turbo intake. A cold air intake is basically allowing a turbo to suck in more air as it's spining, this creates more pressure since the air is denser, there's more, etc... Plus more air going in means more air going out. I hope that answers your question, yeah a cai is a must for any turbo it's the starting block I think for any upgrade.
And colder air doesn't make the turbo spool faster, it's a bigger header/downpipe/bigger catback system that makes it spool faster. The exhaust is what drives a turbo limited by the wastegate, more exhaust flow faster turbo spool. Turbos usually spin around 150 thousand rpm, inside in the opposing chamber the cold air thats getting sucked in through the cai is compressed, then it's pushed through the intercooler which now becomes even denser then it goes right into the engine in a nutshell. The exhaust port and fresh air ports completely separate, the exhaust is the driving force of the turbo, which can be more or less depending on your setup, bigger cai, downpipe, turbo intake. A cold air intake is basically allowing a turbo to suck in more air as it's spining, this creates more pressure since the air is denser, there's more, etc... Plus more air going in means more air going out. I hope that answers your question, yeah a cai is a must for any turbo it's the starting block I think for any upgrade.
Turbo engines are tricky, bigger intercooler pipes anything above 2.5 will increase spool time while 2.25 is the optimal pipe diameter, bigger cai/turbo intake will speed up spool a littlebit(hard to notice at low end, some in mid, most in high range). Bigger header, downpipe, cat back system will decrease spool time since there's more exhaust available to spin the turbo. Even a bov can have huge effect on your system, some can hold lot's of boost while other's leak and you never get that high boost pressure your system is designed to create. It all works together in glorious harmony
Yeah... not to mention that if the intercooler's too big, you'll have added pressure drop across it, etc etc... blah blah blah. Hahaha.
Thankfully for me, the intake on the MSM is in such a location that...well, it's actually kinda dumb, but if it gets water in it, there are bigger problems in my future...
Thankfully for me, the intake on the MSM is in such a location that...well, it's actually kinda dumb, but if it gets water in it, there are bigger problems in my future...
Yeah that whole day was pretty much comic relief for anyone on the outside looking on.
What is the performance difference in the cai and a short ram then?
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Yeah... not to mention that if the intercooler's too big, you'll have added pressure drop across it, etc etc... blah blah blah. Hahaha.
Thankfully for me, the intake on the MSM is in such a location that...well, it's actually kinda dumb, but if it gets water in it, there are bigger problems in my future...
I'm surprised that filter doesn't get heatsoaked and can actually pull in cooler air.
