Turbo6Smackdown
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I would say no. Octane is the cure for detonation, not cooler air.
Cooler air will make more HP, but at the track, if you are running with a hot engine compartment, you aren't getting the most out of your T/R, anyway.
So much air flows into the engine compartment of a T/R that the difference in temps between in front of the firewall and behind the firewall at the track won't be enough to show up on the time slip.
But don't take my word for it, go to the track and run back to back test until you are sick and you won't see .1 second or .5 mph difference at the track between the best CAI/Ram Air and a K&N on the MAF.
Thank you. Had to bring this back up, as some people aren't believing me when I tell them, that when I ran my filter outside the engine bay, there was hardly any IAT differences on my scanmaster. Unless you have a 195 T stat in your car, and you're in arizona, then cai's are worthless.
What I can't understand is, by the time you feel the need to 'have' to run your filter outside the engine bay, for 1 freakin degree of cooler air, you probably already have either a really nice SLIC, alky, or both. So why in the HELL would you need one degree of cooler air, with a 250 dollar cai rig, when you already have alky? I'm lost why these new 'should I run my filter...' threads keep coming back up....