-A CAI is longer and flows below the engine to take in cooler air instead of engine bay air.

-A SRI removes the stock intake and is less restrictive, but sits within the engine bay.

-A CAI shows better power gains but increases the chance of taking water into the engine.

-A SRI gives less power gains than a CAI, but there is less chance to take in water into the engine.

Excuse the NooBness, but modding is new to me. Do I pretty much have the basics down here? Or is there more I need to know?

 

Sorry, posted in wrong forum.

Mods, could you please move this?

 

That is correct, I'd say there is 0% chance a SRI will suck in water.

 

I would hesitate on the power gain statement... there is a link around here showing actual power gains on a dyno on a TSX with intake, and it just wasn't there...

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...ght=dyno+chart

 

The chances of a CAI taking in water is very slim as well. Youd really have to be submerged in water to worry. The CAI removes the stock intake as well.

and elduderino, im not sure about the ice box, with the injen CAI and the short ram multiple dynos have shown around 7-9 hp for the short ram and about 10-12 for the injen i believe.

 

Simply saying it's not a rule that the power goes up. Case by case basis, wouldn't you say?

Hey, RMATIC, have any links for charts? I've missed them...

 

Use the search button....

Sorry Eld...the timing was too perfect.....I'm just kiddin with ya though dude.

 

Its safe to say any proven SRI or CAI intake will increase HP for the TSX, no one has dyno'd and said it didn't do jack. elduderino those dynos are neither a SRI nor a CAI, the CompTech icebox doesn't fall into those categories IMO

 

I suppose, our cars are all the same though, in the most part, a injen cold air intake is going to bring the same gains to one TSX as much as it will to the next assuming the car is stock, and in similar enviormental conditions.

Taken from injen site..

http://www.injen.com/webpages/testin...les/rd1430.gif

I cant find any dynos with just an intake alone

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1272

but that's the dyno stick in the aftermarket parts and performance section.

And along with what Xizor said, i dont know much about the comptech ICE BOX but i think it's in it's own catergory in regards to then CAI and SRI.

 

The only thing going for the Ice Box is that it's quiter than the Injen and K&N intakes. Power gains are the lowest of all the options. The injen has been shown to put out 10-13hp on the dyno.