Originally Posted by
coreycooper
after reading all of hose post's i felt sick, short ram intakes are great for a deep throaty sound but thats about it, even tho there is less turbulance in to the throttle body the hot under hood air temp it brings in evens out the gains that it givs you
No. It has much more to do with proper resonance length. On some engines, like the J30A1, an SRI will gain more power than a CAI. If you have proper airflow underhood, the difference in temperature between a CAI filter and an SRI filter souldn't be great enough to notice.