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ok so i been looking into getting a cai then getting new charge pipes and i keep reading at every brand i look at oh it will give you 15-30 more HP just by adding the cold air then i go and look at the charge pipes and they say somthing like 10-25 more hp so if i were to buy all new piping id gain lets say 20-40 more hp? the piping isnt really that much different then what comes stock besides it a lil more open witch makes better air flow and i understand better air flow means more hp but 20-40? how is that possible? i understand like 10-15 tops. so are these brands just using that as a sell point to get people to buy? lol sorry guys i just dont get it
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ok so i been looking into getting a cai then getting new charge pipes and i keep reading at every brand i look at oh it will give you 15-30 more HP just by adding the cold air then i go and look at the charge pipes and they say somthing like 10-25 more hp so if i were to buy all new piping id gain lets say 20-40 more hp? the piping isnt really that much different then what comes stock besides it a lil more open witch makes better air flow and i understand better air flow means more hp but 20-40? how is that possible? i understand like 10-15 tops. so are these brands just using that as a sell point to get people to buy? lol sorry guys i just dont get it
Here's an example for you - although not 'balt related. My 95 LT1 has a bunch of mods. Here's the approximate supposed hp improvements for some of them:
Cam - 40 hp
CAI - 12 hp
MAF/Hypertech airfoil/tb mods - 15 hp
BBK headers - 40hp
race cat - 20hp
3" Borla exhaust - 20 hp
Tune - 20 hp
Did I end up with a car with 167 extra horsepower? Um, no. Wish I did, but no. I ended up with close to 100 hp from those mods, which isn't too shabby. I bet I'd come close to the approximates if I did each one individually without the others, but you end up in situations where the performance gains overlap for the mods (like the MAF/airfoil mods blend with the CAI, and the cat/cat-back and headers), and the real improvement will actually be over the entire torque curve, not necessarily at peak. Its not that one becomes useless because of the other - they compliment/supplement each other. The only time I really got close to the advertized power improvements was when I did the BBK's after all the other work - there were no restrictions holding any of those "advertised" ponies back.
In short - you don't get all that beautiful power in great gobs, unfortunately!
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actually, maybe just better throttle response
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yes for the most part those companys r just using it as a selling point..yes of corse more air is good..but remember more air means u need more fuel ..therefore the only way to really benefit from it is to get a tune on top of it ..get the cai ..then order a tune from trifecta ..and ull see some good gains
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From my experience, I don't know how much every single thing gives you. When I was on only bolts-on, I had Hahn catted DP and catback, Injen CAI and CP, I got a tune from a local tuner, it was set at only 20psi, and I dynoed 310hp.
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impressive with my bolt ons and a hp tune i yield bout 323whp easy but on 24psi. then i upped the boost to 27psi ran that for a few months, and when i dropped altitude going from el paso to NYC, i hit a 31psi spike and bye bye lil turbo lol. not sure where my power was at that time.
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I have trifecta - I don't think its a matter of better gains being available through HP; I think its more of a trifecta-tunes-are-more-conservative thing. I went with trifecta because of the need to stealth tune - I needed a wife-friendly tune on the car when its started up (GMS1)!
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It doesn't add 100%, in practically any circumstances. They will quote 15-30, depending whether it was a stock or modded engine. 30 hp is dream world (even 15hp is generally dream world).
Here's an example for you - although not 'balt related. My 95 LT1 has a bunch of mods. Here's the approximate supposed hp improvements for some of them:
Cam - 40 hp
CAI - 12 hp
MAF/Hypertech airfoil/tb mods - 15 hp
BBK headers - 40hp
race cat - 20hp
3" Borla exhaust - 20 hp
Tune - 20 hp
Did I end up with a car with 167 extra horsepower? Um, no. Wish I did, but no. I ended up with close to 100 hp from those mods, which isn't too shabby. I bet I'd come close to the approximates if I did each one individually without the others, but you end up in situations where the performance gains overlap for the mods (like the MAF/airfoil mods blend with the CAI, and the cat/cat-back and headers), and the real improvement will actually be over the entire torque curve, not necessarily at peak. Its not that one becomes useless because of the other - they compliment/supplement each other. The only time I really got close to the advertized power improvements was when I did the BBK's after all the other work - there were no restrictions holding any of those "advertised" ponies back.
In short - you don't get all that beautiful power in great gobs, unfortunately!
Here's an example for you - although not 'balt related. My 95 LT1 has a bunch of mods. Here's the approximate supposed hp improvements for some of them:
Cam - 40 hp
CAI - 12 hp
MAF/Hypertech airfoil/tb mods - 15 hp
BBK headers - 40hp
race cat - 20hp
3" Borla exhaust - 20 hp
Tune - 20 hp
Did I end up with a car with 167 extra horsepower? Um, no. Wish I did, but no. I ended up with close to 100 hp from those mods, which isn't too shabby. I bet I'd come close to the approximates if I did each one individually without the others, but you end up in situations where the performance gains overlap for the mods (like the MAF/airfoil mods blend with the CAI, and the cat/cat-back and headers), and the real improvement will actually be over the entire torque curve, not necessarily at peak. Its not that one becomes useless because of the other - they compliment/supplement each other. The only time I really got close to the advertized power improvements was when I did the BBK's after all the other work - there were no restrictions holding any of those "advertised" ponies back.
In short - you don't get all that beautiful power in great gobs, unfortunately!
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As for what my LT1 gets, remember, after all the mods to max the hardware, I can always ADD that turbo!
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