Why are "Cold air intakes" so god **** expensive?

[phemps 10+ year member]

Your paying for the name at that price

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

got to be careful if you ever have to drive in deep water but here are some pics of a few i have done.

bronco with a 351w and a holley 750

99 chevy blazer 4.3

and a 93 olds with a 3.1 (short ram style) i used the bottom of the factory air box to make a splash shield with.

 

[Brian_smith06 10+ year member]

i have considered building one for my car, but that is just so i can make some room to add a second battery under the hood //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif i could care less about any performance or anything else i could potentially benefit from it.

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

i have considered building one for my car, but that is just so i can make some room to add a second battery under the hood //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif i could care less about any performance or anything else i could potentially benefit from it.

theres not enough performance to make a difference.. that batt would weigh it out..

 

[gotparts90 10+ year member]

cold air intakes lol

here is a better idea

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

imo they are hit and miss with any actual gains.

i had a 97 s-10 and installed a k&n fip kit and ran a cat-less full exhaust with a headder(2.2L). i did both of thoes at the same time and it seemed to help some but when i went from a belt driven cooling fan to the electric kit, that made 3 times the diffrence in felt preformance over the cia and exhaust.

the short ram intake i installed on the olds in the pic above, now that made a very noticeable diffrence in power and economy. i was very suprised by that one.

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

imo they are hit and miss with any actual gains.i had a 97 s-10 and installed a k&n fip kit and ran a cat-less full exhaust with a headder(2.2L). i did both of thoes at the same time and it seemed to help some but when i went from a belt driven cooling fan to the electric kit, that made 3 times the diffrence in felt preformance over the cia and exhaust.

the short ram intake i installed on the olds in the pic above, now that made a very noticeable diffrence in power and economy. i was very suprised by that one.

you had the cia in your car? you have drugs or something? WMD?

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

you had the cia in your car? you have drugs or something? WMD?

damit man, like i said your ona roll.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

got me, iam a few beers in to it with a side of jim beam black ftw.

 

[Brian_smith06 10+ year member]

theres not enough performance to make a difference.. that batt would weigh it out..

thats what i figured. i dont care about performance though. i would just like to gain that small area back in my trunk from putting that battery up front

 

[HypnoticCure 10+ year member]

ported my tb at the same time i did my cai and there was a SOTP difference. nothing magical but much better and of course the sound is nice...

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

ported my tb at the same time i did my cai and there was a SOTP difference. nothing magical but much better and of course the sound is nice...

when you ported your throttle body, did you use a bigger throttle plate?

 

[Proximity 10+ year member]

I spend about $200 for mine i think.

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

Yeah the K&N cai for mine was quoted around 300.

I say **** that, for the price of 10 cai's i'll turbocharge the *****.

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

Yeah the K&N cai for mine was quoted around 300.
I say **** that, for the price of 10 cai's i'll turbocharge the *****.

why would you buy 10? or even bring that up?

 

[KyleBechtold 5,000+ posts]

thats what i figured. i dont care about performance though. i would just like to gain that small area back in my trunk from putting that battery up front

just take the drivers seat bottom out and use the batt as a seat?