Anyone ever notice a loss in power after installing an air bypass valve?
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Anyone ever notice a loss in power after installing an air bypass valve?
I had cut my intake during the rainy months here in so cal. to avoid injesting water. My intenetion was to re-install it come spring time w/an aem bypass valve. Well I did just that and it felt like I might have been sucking air from 2 locations, it just didn't feel accelerable, so I took it off and now I have a short ram. It pisses me off because I bought it for 39 bucks under the impression it would not affect performance, but to me it feels like it does. Anyone else?
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Hmm. Interesting.
The air bypass valves must not be closing fully. :dunno:
Has anyone ever vacuum tested a CAI with one of those valves?
h:
BTW, I've always felt that CAIs were too big of a risk for the gain.h:
The air bypass valves must not be closing fully. :dunno:
Has anyone ever vacuum tested a CAI with one of those valves?
h:BTW, I've always felt that CAIs were too big of a risk for the gain.
h:
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Originally Posted by TheOtherDave™
Hmm. Interesting.
The air bypass valves must not be closing fully. :dunno:
Has anyone ever vacuum tested a CAI with one of those valves?h:
BTW, I've always felt that CAIs were too big of a risk for the gain.h:
The air bypass valves must not be closing fully. :dunno:
Has anyone ever vacuum tested a CAI with one of those valves?
h:BTW, I've always felt that CAIs were too big of a risk for the gain.
h:And an FYI to Integra owners: A good short ram will outperform a CAI on our cars, so there's no logical reason to get a CAI for our cars anyways.
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Originally Posted by Epoch
And an FYI to Integra owners: A good short ram will outperform a CAI on our cars, so there's no logical reason to get a CAI for our cars anyways.
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Originally Posted by Illegal B16
why would that not be the same for civic owners as well? What makes the integra different for that?
It's B-series engines in general I believe, but it certainly helps that the integra is a very well cooled engine bay.
I wish I could find the link, but there was a place that tested every major commercial intake available in the US in both short ram and CAI configurations. The AEM SRI outperformed the AEM CAI on a B16 throught the entire dyno'd RPM range.
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From: originally from WA
the junkyard will have many ebay SRI's, thats where mine came from, i just added a k&n filter.
but every one of my friends that has a CAI (WA rains alot) says that their CAI's were better without the air bypass (they all have it).
...for some reason i find the CAI whistle sound sekksai... :drool:
but every one of my friends that has a CAI (WA rains alot) says that their CAI's were better without the air bypass (they all have it).
...for some reason i find the CAI whistle sound sekksai... :drool:
