Ah yeh... your efan is pulling air in from where... through your hot-*** radiator which just passed through your hot a/c condensor and also the PS and tran coolers. And then the ambient temp of the engine compartment itself unless its in winter. Your not convincing me that the air pulled in from your intake is really that much cooler than the stock unit would have produced. Maybe a few degrees at best. Problem is at idle it still is sucking hot engine temp air.

 

I went on the dyno with MANY configs of CAI set-ups with my mustang. The best and consistent coldest temps were was with the airfilter buried as low in the fender as possible. Nothing better than sitting on the dyno pulling in Ambient air temps.

I think you've got a Pro/Con situation going on here. More air volume of hot air and less volume of colder air.

That's all i will say so i don't try and create yet another "pissin match" as one our "finest" would tell ya.

 

Huh?........you want another pissin match? I will be right back.......lemme go get something to drink so we can go longer....... ;-)

BTW, did you ever get your shimmy taken care of?

 

Hey hey, not me... you can **** all over whatever you want as long as it isnt me, LOL!

 

I agree, the fresh air coming in the engine bay comes thru the hot radiator and hot a/c condenser if the a/c is on.
True, on a stock engine, the high dollar cai kits do a bunch of nothing as well except make the intake moan loud.
I have a K&N drop-in filter and MIT pipe and it runs the same with the Hemi hat on.
You have to get cool air from ahead of the radiator like the stock air box does and the Vararam kit that draws air in above the front bumper. Your throttlebody can not flow more air than even the stock air box, so there is no real restriction there.
Yes some look better than stock and it is really all about personal preference.
Even K&N boast a whole 8hp gain on the Hemi Ram with a $300+ kit. You could get almost that from a less restrictive filter in the stock set-up. Ant the few hp that you gain are way up in the rpm range where the engine rarely goes.

 

You guys with the dual intakes ever run any tubes down to the foglight area or down that way? I would think that would get you some cooler air than right over the engine.

 

I have seen some do it and seen some nice pics. Dont some of the Chevy SS trucks do the same?

 

Get a BFI.

 

Look man, I ain't trying to convince nobody of anything. The OP asked a question and I answered it from my own experience with my truck and with my intake, thats all. All I was saying about the fan thing was in comparison to a truck with a clutch fan and the same intake. There again from my own experience. I had the intake before I got the e-fan and I checked the temp of the air coming in at idle and I did it again after the e-fan and it is some cooler. Mind you i am not trying to say its a night and day difference but there is a difference. I am not trying to convince anybody that these intakes are better or worse than any other out there, all I did was tell of my experience with mine, and if you will read back to my first post about this I said one of the main reasons I got one is because I liked the way it looked. TEACH, I am planning to run mine down like you were saying, I had planned that from the beginning just haven't gotten around to doing it yet.