

The idea is to route the pipe in such a way as to avoid any hot parts of the car like the exhaust heat shield for example. The piping will come with straight sections and various adapters and elbows. You have to wash that off and replace it when you service the filter. A light coat of oil keeps fine particulate from getting through.

Cone filters have more surface area and the filter media is a reusable fabric inside a mesh screen that you can wash when it gets dirty. The stock air filter is discarded in favour of a higher flowing cone filter. You can inject as much gas as you want, but without air, it won’t do a thing.Ī cold air intake is usually made up of some polished metal tubing which goes from your throttle body to your air filter and you have to remove the stock sensors from your induction system so that you can put them on your new CAI. That means you can get more of it into your engine. Why cold air? Cold air is denser than warm air.
