CAI Q for winter driving?

[ChinoStyles]

It sounds like the best way to get more power out of these E36's is to do the CAI, Software, and then Exhaust. Can anyone explain what the implications for a CAI are for winter driving? I live in Canada and it gets to be minus 35 degrees sometimes, should I be concerned or is this irrelevent?

Cheers

[Ronnaferd]

I dont think temperature is a problem, but im not positive on this. All I know is you don't want to get water in your CAI or that will mess things up. :thumbup:

[BMWALDO]

It sounds like the best way to get more power out of these E36's is to do the CAI, Software, and then Exhaust. Can anyone explain what the implications for a CAI are for winter driving? I live in Canada and it gets to be minus 35 degrees sometimes, should I be concerned or is this irrelevent?

Cheers


I've from some of my online friends who live in North Dakota and haha IDAHO, that when it get to freezing degrees that they just change out the CAI for stocker intakes because it causes frost to build up around the filter. Makes starting the car a lot more difficult and in some cases the car just stalls out.

Never had "freezing" type weather here in Cali so I've never had to experience that. Does just fine in rain though... (at least for the cosmos racing version unlike all you homemade revolution types...) "ronnaferd"

[momo328is]

-35C? Sounds like a bit of an exaggeration unless you live in an igloo.

The city with the coldest winters, according to the average nighttime temperature during December, January and February, is Yellowknife: -29.9 degrees Celsius.

You must live really far up north.

[dzrocks_11]

he never specified celcius

[ChinoStyles]

momo.........notice the temperature with the windchill?

http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climateData/hourlydata_e.html?timeframe=1&Prov=XX&StationID=2205&Year=2006&Month=2&Day=16

thanks for the info fellas........chino

[momo328is]

Good thing that windchill factor does not actually affect the temperature.

[ChinoStyles]

Actually, windchill most certainly does decrease the temperature, hence the lower number indicated Momo. Try to get better informed before posting next time!

[momo328is]

"For an inanimate object, windchill has an effect if the object is warm. For example, say that you fill two glasses with the same amount of 100-degree water. You put one glass in your refrigerator, which is at 35 degrees, and one outside, where it is 35 degrees and the wind is blowing at 25 mph (so the windchill makes it feel like 8 degrees). The glass outside will get cold quicker than the glass in the refrigerator because of the wind. However, the glass outside will not get colder than 35 degrees -- the air is 35 degrees whether it is moving or not. That is why the thermometer reads 35 degrees even though it feels like 8 degrees."

Source:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question70.htm

Windchill affects cooling, not temperature.