Seems a shame to hide those chrome ended filters behind the front clip. Maybe you could cut some square holes and put head light cover windows in front of them.
Would someone be so kind to explain this setup? Because from the outside looking in I see turbulace issues left and right and a bottleneck (ie the TB) This is just me someone that doesn't have the setup, didn't develop the setup, and only sees the pics. So a better understanding for my simple mind would be much appreciated.
Im sure Cam will chime in but he is on the road right now driving back from Ohio. I think the design of the Y and the angle of how the two tubes feed into one cause a increase in air velocity and the angle also keeps from creating turbulence.
And it looks to me like their isn't a bottle neck at the TB, it appears to be bigger...or at least the same size. Air can enter from either side, and the angle looks like it's set up for a straight shot into each otehrs flow and should cancel and head straight head. ....This system should work very well.
take the sum of the diameter of both inlets and you will get more than the diameter of the TB is what I am getting at.
impressive 18 lbft of torque increase is a big deal. Here is my thought again as outside looking in. C&L is an OK CAI, but OK at best. Looking at simply the design Crank This' CAI is of much higher grade and looks as though it would out perform the competition. However I am wondering, if the second inlet is causing more damage than good. From what I can see, air will collide at that one point. If each inlet provides X CFM and the inlet into the TB can only handle X CFM you run into an issue of the Bottle neck I was refering too. Now with that all said, people can say "Well a supercharger pushes can handle more CFM than this thing can deliver" Has to look at the fact that any Forced induction is forcing air into it, instead of letting the nature of airflow to handle the business. Additionally, with what I can count is 3 bends in each inlet and one is more than 90* I see turbulance issues with the air, causing a slow down of the air coming into the motor. I am not ragging on the part, just curious because I can only see the outside shell of the CAI, and I have no way to see for myself exactly how air is traveling in the system.
I know a comparison was made to the air hammer and the twin CAI blew it away. The air hammer is commonly known as the best CAI available for the LX platform. Ill leave the rest to Cam as he is the brains behind this unit.
Not like i know shit for shinola...but IMO the air isn't coming in naturally, it's being sucked in at about 100mph. A good CAI should allow the engine to vacuum/suck as much cool air as it possible can without restriction. The best way to do that is volume, and filter location. With the dual tubes, you have double the volume capacity versus one. The filters seem to be located where they need to be to get good air, although, I pull air from same area, and on hot days, the road heat can drive up IAT's.
I can see where you are getting at in regards to the increase of vacuum. Please understand what I meant by "naturally" meaning it is not being forced into the TB, where in a NA situation the engine will suck in the air as needed, or with in its capabilities as it sits. Though it may appear that you are getting double the volume capacity, without knowing how well the air flows through that Y there is no real way to prove or disprove what I have said. I have worked with MANY CAI's and MANY different platforms from Ford V8s, all the way down to honda's. I have seen twin inlet CAIs before (mostly home brew) and they ended up making decent gains but when you watch the air patern you realize that the second inlet is worthless and hampers the design of the CAI. So waiting for Cam's always detailed reply, I am sure he can clear up the clouds in my mind. I am very sure he knows the answers to all my questions.
Mains, Cam has been working on this CAI project for well over a year now. What you see is the final product. As Cam stated when he introduced this product, it is NOT for a stock or even mildly modded car. This is for the heavy mods.
What happens at the y.....an the Y is critical as I understand it.....is the air speeds up as it enters.....that's the reason for the dual 3" pipes rather than 3.5".I can tell you for a fact that this intake works better than any other I have ever had(and I had a bunch). I datalogged a loaded 5th gear pull from just over 1k rpm to 4000 and saw a 1.0 pratio maintained straight across.If you don't think that is impressive go ask your tuners if they have ever seen that in a N/A Hemi before.
Hence why I am waiting on Cam to answer. He would know about the way air flows in that. I have tuned a few cars in my day so I completely see what you are saying
