*Ron: Your way of illustrating intake restriction is both informative and quite hilarious. By explaining how MAF/air meter data is passed to the ECU, your short and focused presentation clears out most of the misinformation surrounding HAIs and CAIs. A sincere Thank You for the time and preparation you invest in each presentation.* *Would love to witness a conversation or conversations between you and the engineers involved, concerning their methods and processes used in obtaining their dyno numbers. Please do.* *On the handling of normalised and repeatable CAI HP gains data: In my case +5 HP on a CAI as exemplified by your bent straw; obtained during a test and tune session. The before and after plots were recorded in 2003 at Dynamic Auto Sports in Irvine. This data, including curves ripple which is characteristic of tumbler valved intake manifolds is in close agreement with K&N data also taken in 2003. So although data was taken in two separate locations, 40 miles apart and under different ambient conditions, at least in this case K&N was not fudging the numbers to benefit their Marketing Dept. Cheers!*
Cheers! Yeah every marketing department loves to reach those dyno sheets differently is one thing I've always noticed. I am trying to get a couple of the engineers at these places over, they are just really shy to get on camera unfortunately.
*So right! Even vehicle-specific forums are mostly populated by penurious kids, long on conjecture and bench racing BS, very short on answers to hard questions. Rarely is any hard, fact-based data presented. One's valuable time is better spent here to learn from Ron, one of the Masters in the trade. Cheers!*
What many guys forget when they do these cold air mods is to also add slightly more fuel and a degree or two of timing. The ecm will only do so much on its own.
After watching this, it looks like it won’t be worth doing any intake mod to my 2010 c300. Look up pics of the engine bay. Maybe I could increase the size of the intake??
Hi Rawr, had to look up that engine bay, pretty decent design by Mercedes actually, but I didn't see anything from the major houses that do real engineering (yes theoretically cold increase the size) but that would be pretty expensive to fabricate and I doubt the demand is there to sell it with others. So I think I'd probably just get a nice filter for the existing one like a BMC. Let me know if you need any help from us here at ModBargains.
*Ron: Your way of illustrating intake restriction is both informative and quite hilarious. By explaining how MAF/air meter data is passed to the ECU, your short and focused presentation clears out most of the misinformation surrounding HAIs and CAIs. A sincere Thank You for the time and preparation you invest in each presentation.*
*Would love to witness a conversation or conversations between you and the engineers involved, concerning their methods and processes used in obtaining their dyno numbers. Please do.*
*On the handling of normalised and repeatable CAI HP gains data: In my case +5 HP on a CAI as exemplified by your bent straw; obtained during a test and tune session. The before and after plots were recorded in 2003 at Dynamic Auto Sports in Irvine. This data, including curves ripple which is characteristic of tumbler valved intake manifolds is in close agreement with K&N data also taken in 2003. So although data was taken in two separate locations, 40 miles apart and under different ambient conditions, at least in this case K&N was not fudging the numbers to benefit their Marketing Dept. Cheers!*
Cheers! Yeah every marketing department loves to reach those dyno sheets differently is one thing I've always noticed. I am trying to get a couple of the engineers at these places over, they are just really shy to get on camera unfortunately.
Go on any forum and listen to everyone whos never had one. They'll tell you they're useless, they know from experience.
HAHAHAH Jake :) Ah yes the forums
*So right! Even vehicle-specific forums are mostly populated by penurious kids, long on conjecture and bench racing BS, very short on answers to hard questions. Rarely is any hard, fact-based data presented. One's valuable time is better spent here to learn from Ron, one of the Masters in the trade. Cheers!*
hey man, NY just passed the sleep act... you should make a follow up video.
Thank you, I'll see what we can do. For sure update the video we made on it.
What many guys forget when they do these cold air mods is to also add slightly more fuel and a degree or two of timing. The ecm will only do so much on its own.
Yeah for sure get that computer workign for it and things will go much further
Loved it bro may the truth be told
Thanks Robert Appreciate it
Air intake with bigger throttle body + tune =gainz
Some nice gainz, an exhaust won't hurt that either
After watching this, it looks like it won’t be worth doing any intake mod to my 2010 c300. Look up pics of the engine bay. Maybe I could increase the size of the intake??
Hi Rawr, had to look up that engine bay, pretty decent design by Mercedes actually, but I didn't see anything from the major houses that do real engineering (yes theoretically cold increase the size) but that would be pretty expensive to fabricate and I doubt the demand is there to sell it with others. So I think I'd probably just get a nice filter for the existing one like a BMC. Let me know if you need any help from us here at ModBargains.