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Offline brisdriver

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Cold Air Feed
« on: 05 March 2008, 22:09 »
So i Rigged up a Cold air feed today down to the front vent. going to my standard air box with a k&N panel filter. It's 1.8 Driver. I think it's eased the flat spot around 2000 revs, but I dont know if im making it up. Also I think it sounds slightly different now. Again I may be making it up. Just wondering if anyone has noticed any difference before and after a cold air feed?..... Discuss
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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #1 on: 05 March 2008, 22:35 »
I was debating on getting one, I have heard then make a difference but really a significant difference though. But the idea that colder air=faster would tell you that it should work. If it really did increase performance I would one, but for now I think my money is better spent elsewhere on the car.

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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #2 on: 05 March 2008, 23:08 »
it was hardly expensive though, I brought the pipe for a fiver off a friend ripped out of his crap corsa myself, then i cut of the original pipe entering the air box, and jammed it in and ran the other end down next to the horn. jobs a good un
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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #3 on: 05 March 2008, 23:44 »
Well yeah, for a price like that you can't complain :grin:

I think they do give a little performance gain and considering that you can pay a maximum of like £15-20 from a high street store, its not a bad buy. Of course, I would look to get it cheaper though :tongue:

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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #4 on: 05 March 2008, 23:48 »
It's nothing to do with how fast the air is getting to the engine, it's that cold air is more dense ergo you get 'improved' combustion, oxygen+fuel+ignition= fun times to be had by all. :wink:

You will get some improvement's, maybe a couple of extra BHP but defo worth doing as it certainly won't do any harm!

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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #5 on: 05 March 2008, 23:53 »
Yeah, you gotta love that cold, dense air!

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Offline Pete Taylor

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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #6 on: 07 March 2008, 07:36 »
Certainly ease the heat soak (when moving anyway..)

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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #7 on: 07 March 2008, 10:15 »
ok so being ignorant, whats the heat soak?
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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #8 on: 07 March 2008, 10:42 »
It's all to do with what eightyeightmph was describing. When stationary with the engine fully upto temp, with an induction kit, the air being sucked into the inlet is coming directly from the hot engine bay. The hotter air gets, the less dense it becomes. The less dense air is, the less oxygen it contains. The less oxygen it contains, the more it inhibits the combustiopn process from being as efficient as it can. So you need cold air rather than more air to prevent heat soak, which feels like the engine is being kind of bogged down

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Re: Cold Air Feed
« Reply #9 on: 07 March 2008, 10:48 »
ah i understand now, cheers. so what should the benifits from that i can actually feel be then?
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