B18C's test: cold air intake vs. short ram
Cold-air intakes vs. short ram intakes....this is one of those eternal topics like sc vs. turbo.
Being the scientist that I am, I decided to do my own test. And being the good guy that I am, I'm gonna share my results with you lucky people :zzz:
- With my cold air extension, my intake temperature rises to about 180F (82.2C) after some very aggressive acceleration. With just the SRI, my intake temp rises to about 193F ( 89.4C) after some similar driving.
- Cruising intake temp is around 146-148F (63-64C) with the CAI and 148-152F (64-67C) with the SRI.
- Both types of intakes take about the same amount of time to reach the max intake temp and the same amount of time (about 11-12 sec) to fall back to cruising temp (about 1 min).
- This is was all done with the outside temp being 54-55F (13C).
- Intake temp was measured with the intake air temp sensor on the intake manifold (courtesy of Honda) and was recorded with Hondata datalogging.
- Note that this was done with and Injen 3" intake on a supercharged integra so your results may vary :angel: