Fitted my new CAI today

[V8Monaro]

Hi everyone,

After waiting a few weeks my Cold Air Induction CAI arrived on Monday. I got a chance to fit it this morning. Really please with it, love the look and sounds awesome! No noticeable change in performance but I guess a remap is probably worthwhile now.

You can unclip the clear cover to get to the cone really easily. Really good quality bit kit.

Would it be worth making a cold air feed through the lower grill?

Edited by V8Monaro on Thursday 4th September 17:12

[007 VXR]

Nice, not worth remaping yet, unless you do some other mods imho.

[V8Monaro]

Its got a fancy exhaust as well

[gsd2000]

V8Monaro said:

Its got a fancy exhaust as well

but stock headers

[007 VXR]

gsd2000 said:

V8Monaro said:

Its got a fancy exhaust as well

but stock headers

Could be worth it with the headers done too ?

[V8Monaro]

We will see about the headers and things moving forward. Quite happy with my new CAI right now.

[007 VXR]

V8Monaro said:

We will see about the headers and things moving forward. Quite happy with my new CAI right now.

i have enjoyed doing mine bit by bit over the last 7 years

[V8Monaro]

007 VXR said:

i have enjoyed doing mine bit by bit over the last 7 years

I saw yours at monkfish a few weeks ago. Really cool. Bit by bit is unfortunately the only way I will get anywhere near the level of yours!

[007 VXR]

V8Monaro said:

007 VXR said:

i have enjoyed doing mine bit by bit over the last 7 years

I saw yours at monkfish a few weeks ago. Really cool. Bit by bit is unfortunately the only way I will get anywhere near the level of yours!

Its more fun that way

hope mine will be home soon

[ARAF]

007 VXR said:

V8Monaro said:

007 VXR said:

i have enjoyed doing mine bit by bit over the last 7 years

I saw yours at monkfish a few weeks ago. Really cool. Bit by bit is unfortunately the only way I will get anywhere near the level of yours!

Its more fun that way

hope mine will be home soon

Bit by bit gives you a long term project, and the costs can just be put down to running-costs with man-maths.

Nice CAI. Not sure you need a feed from underneath, as you probably already have the original route in place. Fitting tubes will hinder rather than help.

[V8Monaro]

Cool I will leave it as is then! does look nice just need to clean the rest of the engine bay up now!

[ringram]

What brand is that mate?

[MyM8V8]

ringram said:

What brand is that mate?

Quite. We need the full program on this, make, model , price, source, flow figures, real life performance comparisons?

[mailer555]

I like it mate, looks good, what make is it?

[V8Monaro]

It is made by this company.

Cold Air Inductions

They do not ship to UK though so had to contact loads of their dealers to find one that would ship it here without costing $$$s. Finally had a suitable response from RPD Motorsports. The guys name is Steve, he is an Aussie so knows our cars well, he was really helpful and shipped it for $85. All in the kit was around £250 I believe.

[VinceM]

Could this be an alternative to the OTR versions, shame as my parents are in the US right now as well!

[ringram]

According to my calcs its a 8 x 4.5 x 6 cone which is 176 sq inches with 6.3cfm/inch = 1108cfm

So will support 550fwhp with in theory optimal airflow, circa 440rwhp.
Which is on a 6L what you would expect a stout heads and cam setup to do.

So on that basis I would use it

[SturdyHSV]

If you want any help tidying up other engine bay bits, feel free to drop me a line, I've done a few bits so would be happy to help out

Looks good, always nice to see a variety of stuff being done to the cars

[V8Monaro]

Thanks sturdy that's a nice offer. I wanted something different don't know of anyone else to have one of these over here.

[ARAF]

V8Monaro said:

Thanks sturdy that's a nice offer. I wanted something different don't know of anyone else to have one of these over here.

You will do soon, after posting it on here.