we all know what a CAI is but dont you think if i directed my a/c into my CAI it would boost my hp?


I know about $NOS$ dammit. so plz dont even mention it
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"if its not free, it costs too much"

 

omfg please tell me you're joking

 

actually my friends and i have thought about this for a while, but the amount of hp that the a/c robs wouldnt make up for the cold air...

 

yeah. I think I heard that ACs can use like 15 HP. On my civic there is a lot of power being sapped when the AC is on. 50 degree air would be a great thing for a car on a hot day... I think someone would have done something like this if it was that good an idea.

 

it'd be a great idea...

if the AC wasnt a pulley driven device..

the HP and ft/lbs gained from cold air far underweighs the loses compared to the A/C being activated in the first place.

Keep dreaming.


maybe you should try out nawzzz :reechy:

 

right.
a lot of R/D has gone into intakes to make better gains.... so cooling the air has definetely been considered.
engines just use so much air that you can't really produce enough of it at extra low temperatures.
am I right?

 

you would also need to invest in a BOV or wastegate cuz the airflow would be constant and if the engine is at idle with fullblast of cold air, it would mess up the idle, unless you manually control it from the knob. still needs much researching if you want to make it work...

 

You know I've read somewhere about a car that is doing such. I think it was Ford engineering (sadly to say this) and somehow they have a line tied into the intake. This was however supplement by a dual intake setup and it was on a V8, from what i remember. It was still in R&D when I read it though, but looked promising. Let me do some searching and see if i can find this article.

 

Seems the trouble out-weighs the potential gains...if any.

 

Turning the A/C off would give you back more power than something like this ever could.