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Originally Posted by Domman56
How so?  i thought warm air intakes were good for fuel economy? |
Gimme a break, man... the guy didn't install that filter for economy, he installed it because he thought it would get him somewhere in the HP department. Of course, real tuners and anyone that knows how engines work know that he's now starving his engine at higher RPMs, under heavy loading, because the air gets so hot it has the same mass as the colder air at lower RPMs.
The difference is that on his vehicle, there probably is no air mass measurement, it's based on a MAP sensor, which means he's getting stupid rich mixtures at high RPM/load curves, further polluting the country.
I seriously doubt if he's getting any better fuel economy, either. Butt-dyno, my friend. That's all it is. And that's a ricer mod, done by someone less concerned with fuel economy than Clinton was with the state of
affairs outside his little circle (oval?)...