Cold air intake
Team Owner
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From: Hartford WI
I really think that I need to get a job as a dyno operator. Don't know what it pays but just watching people's faces with the mods they think makes ginormous power and thr cold splash of water on looking at the sheets would be worth it for a part time job.
Heel & Toe
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From: Stonewall,Manitoba
I installed an SPL Blackwing cold air intake on my '87. Little bit better throttle response and fuel mileage, didn't run dyno before or after , so I can't tell you if there is any horsepower increase but happy with it. Just my 2 cents.
Team Owner
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From: Park City Utah
Someone better "set me straight"! You'll HATE, THIS THREAD
THIS ONE, TOO!...and many others.
Le Mans Master
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Saaaaaayyyyyyy WHAT!? LOL. Is this the general consensus? You think all "hot rodders"/LS swappers etc would agree?
Someone better "set me straight"! You'll HATE, THIS THREAD
THIS ONE, TOO!...and many others.
Someone better "set me straight"! You'll HATE, THIS THREAD
THIS ONE, TOO!...and many others.
Hot rodding is one thing, but adding an intake designed for a Honda and attaching it with gaffa tape is not really an appropriate form of it is it.
Team Owner
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From: Park City Utah
IDK. Depends on:
The owner
The expectations
The criteria
Goals
Budget
It's not really for us to tell someone what their criteria is. I've got parts on the Kart from F-bodies, Silverado, Buicks, Chryslers,....that is the very essence of "hot rodding"; making something work better than stock, with...whatever. People see those parts on it at C&C or wherever....they LOVE it. Why shouldn't they? It's a clever implementation of an existing part. If the OP made a functional CAI for a C4 out of Honda parts? Good for him. The C4 HAI is a piece of ****, and improving on it wouldn't be hard at all.
The owner
The expectations
The criteria
Goals
Budget
It's not really for us to tell someone what their criteria is. I've got parts on the Kart from F-bodies, Silverado, Buicks, Chryslers,....that is the very essence of "hot rodding"; making something work better than stock, with...whatever. People see those parts on it at C&C or wherever....they LOVE it. Why shouldn't they? It's a clever implementation of an existing part. If the OP made a functional CAI for a C4 out of Honda parts? Good for him. The C4 HAI is a piece of ****, and improving on it wouldn't be hard at all.
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2005
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From: Queensland, AUSTRALIA
IDK. Depends on:
The owner
The expectations
The criteria
Goals
Budget
It's not really for us to tell someone what their criteria is. I've got parts on the Kart from F-bodies, Silverado, Buicks, Chryslers,....that is the very essence of "hot rodding"; making something work better than stock, with...whatever. People see those parts on it at C&C or wherever....they LOVE it. Why shouldn't they? It's a clever implementation of an existing part. If the OP made a functional CAI for a C4 out of Honda parts? Good for him. The C4 HAI is a piece of ****, and improving on it wouldn't be hard at all.
The owner
The expectations
The criteria
Goals
Budget
It's not really for us to tell someone what their criteria is. I've got parts on the Kart from F-bodies, Silverado, Buicks, Chryslers,....that is the very essence of "hot rodding"; making something work better than stock, with...whatever. People see those parts on it at C&C or wherever....they LOVE it. Why shouldn't they? It's a clever implementation of an existing part. If the OP made a functional CAI for a C4 out of Honda parts? Good for him. The C4 HAI is a piece of ****, and improving on it wouldn't be hard at all.
Do you think if it was such a terrible intake that Callaway would've left it bone stock on their Supernaturals? Because they did, and it if was that bad, i'm quietly confident they'd have done something about it.
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Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2005
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From: Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Go ya hardest 
If people want to do pointless mods that achieve nothing and hold their Corvettes together with gaffa tape, why would i give a f***?
May as well buy all the alleged go fast bolt on parts out of the Ecklers catalog and add another 200 horsepower while you're at it, if you buy a roll of tape you won't need to re-use the fasteners
If people want to do pointless mods that achieve nothing and hold their Corvettes together with gaffa tape, why would i give a f***?
May as well buy all the alleged go fast bolt on parts out of the Ecklers catalog and add another 200 horsepower while you're at it, if you buy a roll of tape you won't need to re-use the fasteners
Team Owner
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From: Hartford WI
Go ya hardest
If people want to do pointless mods that achieve nothing and hold their Corvettes together with gaffa tape, why would i give a f***?
May as well buy all the alleged go fast bolt on parts out of the Ecklers catalog and add another 200 horsepower while you're at it, if you buy a roll of tape you won't need to re-use the fasteners
If people want to do pointless mods that achieve nothing and hold their Corvettes together with gaffa tape, why would i give a f***?
May as well buy all the alleged go fast bolt on parts out of the Ecklers catalog and add another 200 horsepower while you're at it, if you buy a roll of tape you won't need to re-use the fasteners
300hp if you put the go fast parts stickers on it.
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From: I tend to be leery of any guy who doesn't own a chainsaw or a handgun.
IDK. Depends on:
The owner
The expectations
The criteria
Goals
Budget
It's not really for us to tell someone what their criteria is. I've got parts on the Kart from F-bodies, Silverado, Buicks, Chryslers,....that is the very essence of "hot rodding"; making something work better than stock, with...whatever. People see those parts on it at C&C or wherever....they LOVE it. Why shouldn't they? It's a clever implementation of an existing part. If the OP made a functional CAI for a C4 out of Honda parts? Good for him. The C4 HAI is a piece of ****, and improving on it wouldn't be hard at all.
The owner
The expectations
The criteria
Goals
Budget
It's not really for us to tell someone what their criteria is. I've got parts on the Kart from F-bodies, Silverado, Buicks, Chryslers,....that is the very essence of "hot rodding"; making something work better than stock, with...whatever. People see those parts on it at C&C or wherever....they LOVE it. Why shouldn't they? It's a clever implementation of an existing part. If the OP made a functional CAI for a C4 out of Honda parts? Good for him. The C4 HAI is a piece of ****, and improving on it wouldn't be hard at all.
I've got a similar menagerie of parts on my '69: parts from a C4, C5, C6, Firebird, Cadillac, Cavallier, Jeep, and one part I suspect was originally on a Bobcat.
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Team Owner
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From: Park City Utah
Do you go and attach those parts with gaffa tape?
Do you think if it was such a terrible intake that Callaway would've left it bone stock on their Supernaturals? Because they did, and it if was that bad, i'm quietly confident they'd have done something about it.
Do you think if it was such a terrible intake that Callaway would've left it bone stock on their Supernaturals? Because they did, and it if was that bad, i'm quietly confident they'd have done something about it.
The intake is a steaming pile of cow dung. Just look at the thing. It's poorly made, poorly fitting, poorly sealing, and ingests hot, underhood air. I don't doubt that it flows sufficiently for a Callaway car, but that is tells us what? That it can not be improved upon? BULL ****. Just look at the thing with your eyeballs.
None of this minutia matters though. What I was responding to was this:
Installing a part designed for a totally different car in a hodge podge configuration is almost never a good idea, and if that is what someone is doing thinking it is perfectly ok, then they really should be told it isn't.
WTF is that? Is that true? No, it's not true. People modify their cars. They use what works best/what's available/affordable/effective....some times that is a part from another car.
Le Mans Master
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I don't think the stock parts upstream of the throttle body are a performance "bottleneck" on a stock L98 or stock LT1. If the air filter is dirty, like really blocked, swapping in a new one may help.
But really, buy what you want, some of those parts look good, and you can "mod" your car without spending the equivalent of a teenager's orthodontia on longtubes/heads/cam/mini-ram or whatever.
On my LT1 fbody I had the SLP cold air with two tubes, looked good, sounded good, didn't do dick for performance, but I liked it and I never regretted buying it.
But really, buy what you want, some of those parts look good, and you can "mod" your car without spending the equivalent of a teenager's orthodontia on longtubes/heads/cam/mini-ram or whatever.
On my LT1 fbody I had the SLP cold air with two tubes, looked good, sounded good, didn't do dick for performance, but I liked it and I never regretted buying it.
Team Owner
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From: Hartford WI
I don't think the stock parts upstream of the throttle body are a performance "bottleneck" on a stock L98 or stock LT1. If the air filter is dirty, like really blocked, swapping in a new one may help.
But really, buy what you want, some of those parts look good, and you can "mod" your car without spending the equivalent of a teenager's orthodontia on longtubes/heads/cam/mini-ram or whatever.
On my LT1 fbody I had the SLP cold air with two tubes, looked good, sounded good, didn't do dick for performance, but I liked it and I never regretted buying it.
But really, buy what you want, some of those parts look good, and you can "mod" your car without spending the equivalent of a teenager's orthodontia on longtubes/heads/cam/mini-ram or whatever.
On my LT1 fbody I had the SLP cold air with two tubes, looked good, sounded good, didn't do dick for performance, but I liked it and I never regretted buying it.