I put an Injen SRI in my Cobalt a couple months ago and I love the mileage difference! But a thought occurred to me the other day: since it's actually sucking in engine heat, would that help my gas mileage even in the cold weather?

 

i have a k&n SRI and my mileage in the winter is terrible!!!

 

Dude you live in Florida you don't even know what winter is- Plus winter hasn't even happened yet since the K&N intake has been out.

 

lol owned

 

from indiana stupid ass. just moved here a month ago. know your **** before you talk

....................ownedd

 

I hear you barkin' big dawg.

 

the k&n typhoon has been out for the 2.4 since like 2 years ago.

 

winner winner chicken dinner.

 

exactly

 

Wow guys, all this bickering is unnessecary. BTW I have a home made sri/cai in sri mode and I jumped 2.7 mpg. But there's also other factors as to why I got that increase. But I'm just saying I got better mpg switching to sri.

 

i just put in the K&N SRI and i dropped from 25-26mpg to about 23... and its still dropping... :'(

 

hot air is better for efficiency not cold air. your winter mileage should always go down unless the crap weather causes traction problems and you baby it instead of mashing the throttle all the time.

 

i always read that cold air.... oh for efficiency... not for like, throttle strength... makes sense i think... i may go back to stock intake for the colder months then, maybe rig something so i can use the torque damper as well... are there any other products similar to the torque damper? seeing as how you cant add it on with the heat shield in the way.

 

Well the crap weather causing traction problems might even make it worse.... just thinking of tires spinning at the aboslute slightest touch of throttle..

 

This is one of those zombie threads. it dies then reanimates later.

Well it's been in the teens up here for that past week, and I seem to be getting around 1 mpg better than when I had the stock air box.

 

I'm not sure the conversion but in the summer with my K&N sri I'm doing around 8.8L to 9.2L per 100km's again not sure what the conversion is for mpg?? In the winter though it crashes big time and I'm anywhere between 11.5L and 12.5L per 100km's. I hate winter just for that fact!!

 

I always just switch back to stock intake for the winter months...this way no salt on the intake, and breather is always nice and clean.

 

i may just do this, i hope i have all my parts still around. im tired of crap mileage.

 

an intake should never negatively impact fuel mileage

a more realistic reason for getting worse mileage in the winter is the fact that the gas is different during the winter, its a different blend, treated with all kinda anti freezing agents

 

^^^ True that.

Add in cold (thick) oil in the tranny, cold (thick) grease in the hub bearings, more time at idle (warming up or sitting in traffic), more time in open loop (takes longer for the o2 sensor to get to temperature), more alternator load due to lights / blower motor draw, higher rolling resistance from slush / snow on road........

Way more factors affecting your winter mileage than your intake

 

oh wow.... so intake is NO GOOD FOR WINTER basically....

 

well the stock intake is back on for winter didnt even take an hour.. lol shoulda been less but i had to find the right tools....