Short ram air

[750chop]

ive always run cai's on my cars and never had a problem with water. My personal butt dyno feeling is the cold air(longer) is better on the bottom end. numbers may prove me wrong but i had one on my hyundai and on my dakota and there was a major (to me) difference especially with the big 318 in the truck.

[bbhs20]

I'd be running it on a stock ecu. Is there anything I could do to improve it.

[OldMan'92Accord]

there is really nothing you can do with the stock ECU to improve it. you may want to try an P12 from an Prelude

[deevergote]

Any stock ECU will generally dump more fuel to accommodate for the added airflow. The only way to change this is to get an ECU that can be tuned (this is fairly involved...) and spend some time and money returning the air/fuel ratio to a better level.

[J3wman]

You're probably going to be told to search because of how much this has been discussed on here. But to answer your question, get a bypass valve if you're running a cai and that will help keep it from hydrolocking. If you know it's going to be pouring down, flood weather then just take the bottom tube off and run it as a short ram. As far as the piping goes, wether you pay 200 or 20 dollars for the intake they are both going to be a pipe. Buy the cheap one and put a quality filter on it and you'll be fine. Hope this helped.

yep ur rite! http://tinyurl.com/krhqb2

[J3wman]

now with my next post ill actually be useful. take the stock air box get a K&N drop in filter and cut the bottom out of the box, this way you get more air into the engine its cooler than short ram and you have better bottom end pick up than a CAI, and its a LOT cheaper than the other 2 alternatives.

[Brandoncb7]

yep ur rite! http://tinyurl.com/krhqb2

LOL. You're too late.

[bbhs20]

have you cut out the bottom of the stock air filter box? it sounds like a better method

[carpet47]

Ok I have a cai with bumper mounted cone filter ""AZ chepo and honestly my car accels faster with it but the mileage was changed but not really by much. As I am to understand short ram is all engine heated air which isnt that good for the motor. <Is this true? The reason I ask is because I havent located a bypass so on rainy days well u know what takes place. (pourin hood popped wet, passers by laughin thinkin f**kin street racer) but here in Bama the rain comes outta nowhere. Anyway on short ram it seems so sluggish why???

[cb7builder]

not 2 be a dick or nething but there is no point in putting on a short ram intake un less u r just looking 2 get a cool sound out of it.....your air filter from factory was inclosed thats so u do not suck in hot air...u can run a cold air intake( the kind that goes in the wheel well) and just get a splash guard 4 it that claps to the pipe.. but if u put a short ram intake u basicly have a hot air intake then cuz ur sucking in all the heat that the motor is giving off....I hope this helps u out. -cb7builder

[Brandoncb7]

Ok I have a cai with bumper mounted cone filter ""AZ chepo and honestly my car accels faster with it but the mileage was changed but not really by much. As I am to understand short ram is all engine heated air which isnt that good for the motor. <Is this true? The reason I ask is because I havent located a bypass so on rainy days well u know what takes place. (pourin hood popped wet, passers by laughin thinkin f**kin street racer) but here in Bama the rain comes outta nowhere. Anyway on short ram it seems so sluggish why???

not 2 be a dick or nething but there is no point in putting on a short ram intake un less u r just looking 2 get a cool sound out of it.....your air filter from factory was inclosed thats so u do not suck in hot air...u can run a cold air intake( the kind that goes in the wheel well) and just get a splash guard 4 it that claps to the pipe.. but if u put a short ram intake u basicly have a hot air intake then cuz ur sucking in all the heat that the motor is giving off....I hope this helps u out. -cb7builder

Read the quote under this again.

I've been running a cold air intake since 2003 with no troubles. I just don't drive through big puddles. It's really not that hard to avoid large bodies of water in the road.

A short ram intake will be fine. When the car is moving, the air temperature isn't all that warm.

You'd be fine with a cheap no-name short ram pipe, but I would upgrade the filter to AEM or K&N. The cheap filters don't work well, costing power, and eventually damaging your engine because they don't filter properly.

[carpet47]

thx fellas im still buildin and spendin and ive learned alot more from this site than any cb owner out here in the streets and i love my cb and wouldnt trade it for the world go honda or go home. imma post pix soon.

[14bcb7]

short ram is better for low end quick throttle response. cold air for high end.