Cold Air Intake
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Cold Air Intake I am going to order a CAI and I was wondering if it helped the exhaust sound at all, by making it more throaty. I have Flowmaster right now with no cat but I am getting a magnaflow or hooker ehaust not sure yet.The cold air intake is a lingenfelter CAI and it says on a stock camaro Z28 it produced 12 hp,but K&N only gets like 8.66.Why is that?
Last edited by lilblackZ28; Mar 10, 2008 at 11:46 PM.
+1 for that! K&N, Moroso and lingenfelter are going to be your best bets! Will all make good power and a must for modding your car! Like nomoneyz said find the cheapest out of those and go with it! Doubt you will be disappointed!
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My K&N setup did not make any difference in exhaust sound, but it did make the valve train noise louder if you are standing on the the air filter side of the car. I assume the K & N site's 18.29 HP is for a stock Z probably a hard number to prove unless you have access to a dyno before and after installation. I thought I felt a performance improvement after installing mine, but heck I even get that feeling after and oil change.. IMO adding a free flow air intake system is mandatory before any other performance work. I'm happy with K&N.
The advertised numbers that manufacturers claim are not exactly what you will get and they are basically bull ****. Some may show approximate numbers based off of a stock car and some on a heads/cam stroker but wont tell you that. Its a wonderful marketing/advertising tool because some people buy parts accordingly because they think they will gain the power claimed or gain more power with a similar product produced by a different company. All the good CAI's (LPE, Moroso, K&N) will produce the same amount of power so the cheapest one really is the way to go which would be the LPE unit.