RustyRatRod's Guide To Hot Rod Bliss

Funny you bring up the CAI. Those things are the biggest frauds ever coming out of the automotive aftermarket. Most of them do not fully enclose the air filter element.

I love it when I see these little tuner punks and their hondas, nissans and toyotees and such with the hoods popped and they are all standin there oogling at the thing. And there's this totally exposed uncovered air filter element......be it red, blue, green or whatever just hangin there. Out in the open completely exposed on all sides to engine heat. Dummies.

.....and I have tried, but you cannot tell them anything. They "don't get" that they probably lost performance when they removed the factory air box that "did" fully enclose the filter element, "AND" routed fresh, COLD OUTSIDE AIR into the box. Dummies.

Even the dumb rednecks with their lifted diesel trucks do the same thing. They think because "now" they can "HEAR" the air intake when they "mash on it" that is "has" to be makin more power. Wrongo, Paco. .....and they are even "WORSE" to try and "talk to" than the tuner guys. So I just give up trying. I just smile and say "nice setup". Dummies.

Some people simply make mistakes and once you point them out, they see the light. Others just continue to argue "it says X HP gains on the box". Dummies.

The bottom line on the CAI is, if it exposes the air filter element to hot engine bay air, it does "NOT" ad power and if it replaced an enclosed filter that was routed to cold outside air, you probably just lost some. Dummies.