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Jyden-

I'd like to point out that what you just said makes absolutely no sense at all.

If you're making more HP, you're using MORE fuel to do it. There is never a point (OK, there is, but I doubt you're going to work it out) where you're making MORE HP with LESS fuel, meaning that a CAI which makes MORE power is going to get you the same distance with MORE fuel. Comprende?

If you can increase engine efficiency (there isn't much room for improvement here, really), at a given RPM, even if there is a net power increase, you will get better FE by doing it. That has nothing to do with burning more or less fuel per unit of power, though.

Adding a CAI to the engine means that two things happen -
1- The engine has to overcome more pumping losses, because colder air is more dense, thus doesn't flow as easily
2 - The engine has to induct air from a point further away than it would have been in most cases. This is not always the case, and it's a minute factor, but it does cause effects to power.

If you've got a dyno sheet that shows power or efficiency gains in a normal RPM range (sub 4500) with a CAI versus the OE intake, both at WOT and during normal acceleration (no more than 40% throttle), I'll delete this post.

I can say that because I already know you don't. They don't exist. I still have yet to see a CAI that makes any more than a few extra HP up at the very top of the RPM range, and that's attributable solely to the engine cooling action that the intake of colder air has.