Hey guys, and gals. I haven’t posted on here in a while, but I wanted to share my latest mod with you, because I’m sure it could be done with your cars as well.
For quite some time, myself and some other members of 8thcivic.com have been discussing using cowl induction on our Si’s to get much colder air into the intake. Each of us that has done a custom setup has gone a slightly different route, but we’ve all come to the conclussion that this is the best mod you can do next to a race header.
Before this intake, I was using a Fujita SRI, which we all know suffer greatly from heat soak. Using a Scangauge II to monitor intake air temps, average IAT with the SRI at highway speeds were anywhere from 15 to 25 degrees over ambient air temps. With the custom cowl setup, IAT at highway speed are anywhere from 1 to 8 degrees above ambient air temps. Of course, these temps spike up dramatically when stopped at a light, because cowl induction need the car to move t...
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