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Old Jul 3, 2003 | 04:03 PM
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cold air intake

could anybody explain to me how a cold air intake works and how much horse power is gained from it. i am thinking of putting one in my 300 I6, what can i expect to gain from this?
 
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Old Jul 3, 2003 | 07:22 PM
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cold air intake

Basically a cold air kit is an intake tube that moves your air filter to a position outside of the engine compartment to where it can draw cooler air in the engine than the hot air that radiates off your engine.

I am not familiar with what gains you would see for a 300 (not familiar with the engine personally). My guess would be 5-15 horses - somewhere in that range.

A cold air kit is different from just an open air kit like K&N. Open air kits keep the air filter inside the engine compartment, and ti still pulls hot air into the intake...

Hope this helps...


 
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Old Jul 5, 2003 | 07:59 PM
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cold air intake

You don't have to move the filter outside - just make it pull air from in front of the radiator, like the stock intake did.
 
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Old Jul 6, 2003 | 01:25 PM
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Volant makes cold air intakes. I hear they are decent.
 
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