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Ok today I swapped my modified SRI out for a CAI. Hotrod came over with his civic and his friend brought his cavalier. We went for a run on the highway and I sat back and watched them two have it out. My CAI just did not feel as good as my SRI so I swapped my modified SRI back in and then went for another highway run. As I was giving it hell down the on ramp I looked slightly ahead and over and there was a white Civic (could not tell 7th or 6th gen) and it had all of the hp adders carbon fiber hood, body kit, and exhaust trying to race and worse yet he was not about to let me over. Well to make a long story short I got over before the end of the on ramp. I then slowed down to see if he would pull up next to me, but the slower that I went the slower he went. HAHA he did not want anything more to do with me.

Oh yeah my SRI has a noticeable increase in tq and possibally hp so I am selling the CAI that I just bought if anyone is interested $50

 
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o man bgoetz sellin it back! that sucks. all that work, took a fvckin hour to do. hehe. o well. it was fun.

P.S. Cavalier gets owned by vics on the e-way. thats when auto's get their chance.

 
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yeah you don't know until you try. I think that I am going to make my heat sheild and race duct nicer and clean things up a bit.

 
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Well, technically you could say you really didn't race. You were driving defensivly. This guy wouldn't let you over so you had to punch it to get in front of him...hmm, think of it like that.

 
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^^^ haha that is what I told my gf. It is true the fvcker had a open left lane

 
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so whats next now that u've determined yur sri is better.....suspension work? any upcoming projects?

 
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^^^^yep a rear sway, front strut bar, front control arm bushings, and greys endlinks in the rear. I have a new window motor to replace the one that I shorted out when I crossed my battery terminal that will be this week some time

 
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are u gonna end up getting a camber kit i know u were talking bout the neg. camber u have in the back.

 
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A CAI will always give you more hp and torque than an SRI. in fact, an SRI hardly does anything for gains at all over the stock intake.

as for the "difference" you felt. number 1, the butt dyno lies, so dont trust what you "feel".

number 2, you had the CAI on for how long... an hour? you have to give your car time to adjust. after about 1000 miles of driving your car will be making more power than when you first put on your CAI. your ecu has to re-learn this new CAI since it offers better air intake than your SRI. it changes your a/f. your ecu has to re-learn this and adjust.

put the CAI back on and sell the SRI.

 
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^^^ yup exactly. it also helps speed this up by resetting the ecu. (just diconnect the battery for 30 seconds) or if you have a fuse like we do, you can just pop that out.

 
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No, the thing is that my SRI is modified with a heat sheild (in place where my battery was) that has a air duct running to the front foglight area (foglight is cut out). So I have a direct flow of colder air than I would with the CAI that sits above the subframe. So my SRI is better than A CAI IMO.

 
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well that's hard to say for sure. the amount of heat soak that will occur to that air moving through the engine before it reaches the SRI will probably negate the effect of the air duct you made. not to mention that either way, the intake is going to pull air from wherever its available, whether you have air from that duct blowing on it or not.

on top of that, the CAI from AEM or injen would more than likely be better engineered for your car. (resonant pulse, etc)

 
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what about heat soak from air moving through the piping of a cai into the engine......the airs gonna get hot anyways....right?

 
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Good job... Sorry to hear about the CAI not working out for you. I'm still deciding if I want to go CAI or SRI... AEM of course.

 
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yes, but not as much as his "custom" setup. the cai is designed to try to reduce heat soak as much as possible.

 
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well yeah i understand the concept, i dunno i've always had an sri and liked it. i remember when i was deciding what kind of intake to get a couple years ago, whether or not to go cai or sri and i had emailed someone at aem or a performance shop i forget, but they said the sri was more efficient for my car. not to mention i have an auto so i cant have a cai.

 
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hotrod has seen my custom intake so he knows what I am talking about, but I am sure that I get more direct cold air than a CAI getting air that is refracted up around the subframe and facia. My setup gets air that comes in through the fog light hole which is lower and further from the engine than a CAI filter would be. As far as heat soak my heat shield/box almost seals around the inside of the hood so the only hot air that it would get would be very little. I am not desputing what you are saying I just think that if you saw my setup you would agree. Maybe I can post a pic

BTW my short ram is a AEM

 
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Good kill

 
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no need. it's a plausible scenario.

 
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if your getting "rain hell" like us so cali people are, stick w/ the SRI. Right now im using my SRI, once spring/summer hits ill go to the AEM CAI.

 
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id definately stay with the short ram if its cold where you live. Here in cali its not cold that often but right now its freezing. I feel way more power out of my v2. With a cai it will be a waste because theres alot of cold-air already and longer piping.

 
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Regarding the heat sink problem. That isn't going to be as much as a problem as people think. Ever think how fast the air moves through there? It might get a little warmer, but hardly enough to matter. Better to pull cooler air from outside and let it get a little warmer perhaps than pull already warm air from the engine bay and let it get even a little warmer. Right?