Help: Choosing AirFilters
06-21-2004, 06:15 PM
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Well.... at that moment I doesn't know about a bypass... I learn about their importance in the hard way...
Just for remember Aussiephoenix: Choose a good quality CAI... and DONT FORGET ABOUT THE BYPASS
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Just for remember Aussiephoenix: Choose a good quality CAI... and DONT FORGET ABOUT THE BYPASS
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06-23-2004, 04:19 AM
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Guys, thanks for your help in this.
Mad-Machine, thanks for the offer, but i really do want to get rif of the box filter.
Ok, so the ONLY diference in between buying a CAI or a cone air filter is that the CAI comes with a shaped tube that places the air filter "under" the hot air... nothing else right?
What is a bypass?
Mad-Machine, thanks for the offer, but i really do want to get rif of the box filter.
Ok, so the ONLY diference in between buying a CAI or a cone air filter is that the CAI comes with a shaped tube that places the air filter "under" the hot air... nothing else right?
What is a bypass?
06-23-2004, 08:32 AM
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Vehicle: 2001/Hyundai/Tiburon
this is an air bypass valve
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...&category=42604
little flaps open up if the vacuum is interupted by water entering through the big filter.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...&category=42604
little flaps open up if the vacuum is interupted by water entering through the big filter.
06-23-2004, 09:20 AM
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That's not the only difference man, you'll also notice about a 8 to 10 HP difference, and your car will run MUCH better when hot. You won't get the "my car has been running for 2 hours and is bogging down now" feeling.
06-24-2004, 02:26 AM
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Actually I went back to bug the mechanic a bit longer yesterday and he didnt think that lowering the air filter the way the cai do is REALLY not a good idea because of water and debris...
He suggested keeping the filter up high, but channeling the air from the air vents next to the fogz through some piping up to the air filter itself... he thinks that that way, the air filter will still get bombarded by cold air from under the engine, but be in a much more protected area... what do you guys think?
He suggested keeping the filter up high, but channeling the air from the air vents next to the fogz through some piping up to the air filter itself... he thinks that that way, the air filter will still get bombarded by cold air from under the engine, but be in a much more protected area... what do you guys think?
06-24-2004, 10:20 AM
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Your mechanic is messed up in the head, the Koreans do it that way though. They thinnk that a shorter intake is better then they run dryer hose up to the filter to get cold air to it.
It's silly.
As for water and debris, almost all of us here have CAI's in our cars. If you have foglights, your airfilter gets almost no dirt at all in it, not to mention you'd have to drive thru water deep enough to bury the front of your bumper in for it to get wet.
if you don't have fog lights, it still won't get very wet. You don't have to worry about the CAI sucking in water unless you dunk the ENTIRE FILTER in water. If you drive thru water that deep, you are insane.
CAI's are Dyno proven over WAI's guys.
It's silly.
As for water and debris, almost all of us here have CAI's in our cars. If you have foglights, your airfilter gets almost no dirt at all in it, not to mention you'd have to drive thru water deep enough to bury the front of your bumper in for it to get wet.
if you don't have fog lights, it still won't get very wet. You don't have to worry about the CAI sucking in water unless you dunk the ENTIRE FILTER in water. If you drive thru water that deep, you are insane.
CAI's are Dyno proven over WAI's guys.
06-25-2004, 08:34 AM
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Weel, I'd guess both are valid methods, though my mechanics version would probably be a bit mor expensive as the piping would have to be specifically made for it...
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