Originally Posted by mrphotoman
Lol I am well aware of that but if you look at the Y there is still a big restriction there and if you take off the grille and look the "holes" where the air goes in they are still quite small as well. A CAI has the filter right there in the front of the grille where it gets plenty of fresh air and there is no Y restriction.
Every little bit helps, he is still better off than stock now but a CAI would help even more.
What Y is a restriction?? The one on the throttle body that is plenty wide. If you take a 3" tube and compress it to an oval shape it still flows the same amount of air. Also it doesn't matter how big the filter is infront of the radiator the biggest restriction is going through the radiator opening. You only flow as much air as your biggest restiction. I've dyno'd 377hp with the 55 Boxes and others with similar setups and with needswings dyno'd the same so I doubt there any difference in the CAI set-ups. The cars that are maxed out are 377-380hp. Supercharger limitations and fuel issues, it's not the CAI.