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do you think your car would be faster without having a filter on cold air intake

Originally posted by CiV_HaTcH11111
do you think your car would be faster without having a filter on cold air intake
uhh no i dont

It won't last long with all the shit that will get sucked into the engine

Just use a sock.

lol are you for real

why wouldnt i be?

Before i got my intake, and just the stock one on, i just had that tube coming out from the injector that connects with the box, had the box off and just put a sock on.

Originally posted by Stali08
why wouldnt i be?

Before i got my intake, and just the stock one on, i just had that tube coming out from the injector that connects with the box, had the box off and just put a sock on.

But you said "sock" in the first post.

yea i had the tube running from my intake manifold, to about the battery, then i just had a sock over the tube.

yea i've heard of this sock method, i hear the black ones work best ;) hehe j/p
but i know someone else had a sock right on the throttle body for awhile and they said it ran fine, basically a sock acts like a filter, but no filter = dead engine, cuz tons of crap and bad air will enter the tube then the throttle body

marc os did the sock mod for a while

and my friend with a 95 civic lx just took it right off the airbox, and told me "why do I need a filter, it sits under the hood so wheres the dust gonna come from.

His car was hilarious, he bought a bra cause he sideswiped someone fucking up the hood bumper and taking out the corner lense, and the bra was cheaper than fixing the car!

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alot of guys are the drag strip put panty hose over there intakes that come out of they head light area. they say it works cause the holes in panty hose are smaller then sox.

panty hose vs. socks ... the battle of .003 horsepower.

I've heard that if you spray water directly into the engine it will cool the petrol and run a lot faster - at least 2 seconds off your time.

yeah - that's about the level of seriousness I hope the original poster had. CAI's only work if fitted properly -if exposed to engine heat you lose power, not gain it - just in case it was a serious question. And no - it will do very little to power at the wheels... by itself.

Setanta's talking about water vapor injection.
Notice, that's not water, it's water vapor. You have to make a device with a chamber exactly like a bong, so that the water becomes vaporized.
Air with water vapor has a higher density. When that vapor/air mixture hits your cylinder, it raises the compression just a tiny bit.
Have you ever noticed your car runs better on cloudy, moist days, or just after it has rained?
Vapor injection was used in WWII planes to get the engines to put out more horsepower at high altitudes where the oxygen content is much lower.
But if it made a really noticeable difference, wouldn't we be seeing every guy at the dragstrip and the autocross with one?
Flunky

i was always under the assumption that the water vapor did more to cool the engine down to prevent detionation so you can run a higher boost or a higher compression with out the detonation... its not something you see all too often though...

MY COUSIN DONE THE SOCK FILTER THING, WORKED FINE, JUST MAKE SURE IT DOESNT GET SUCKED INTO THE INTAKE THOUGH