Re: I'd Like Some Advice/Opinions

Agree with the previous two posts.

Thanks for your input. So I guess the "cold air intake" craze that the kids talk about is more about sound than actual fury. The young guys in the neighborhood all swear that their cars are quicker, faster, etc. since putting in their new intakes. To me, they look like 50 dollar replicas of a 4 dollar piece of pipe from Home Depot. but then again, I'm old.

Yes, you (and I) may be old, but when we did things like that as kids we swore our cars were faster too. It was not uncommon to remove the air cleaner in the quest for better performance, but the reality was it just sounded cool when you floored it. My first car was a '53 Mercury Monterey with a flathead V-8

Thanks for your input. So I guess the "cold air intake" craze that the kids talk about is more about sound than actual fury. The young guys in the neighborhood all swear that their cars are quicker, faster, etc. since putting in their new intakes. To me, they look like 50 dollar replicas of a 4 dollar piece of pipe from Home Depot. but then again, I'm old.

As was previously mentioned, colder air is denser air, and you definitely CAN get some improvement in performance this way. But the K&N is more sound than fury. In itself, it does not guarantee a denser air stream, has been shown not to give the filtration that an appropriate OEM filter will give, and does not result in substantial improvements in either economy or power.. It perhaps sounds more gutteral.

A stovepipe cold ram air induction system can sometimes work pretty well.