was wondering if adding a short ram intake will help increase your gas mileage. i know people will say more air = more gas but it also makes your car run a little more efficiently.

 

Either way your not going to be losing a lot.

 

It'll hurt your gas milage...... Why? Because you'll love the sound of your engine so much, you'll be pounding on it all day long. Trust me.

 

u can get better gas miles with better combustion if u get a good intake that help its combustion then it well help as long as u know smashing on it but what u trying to get is the idea ration is 14.7 to 1 dont quote me but someone correct me if im wrong

 

I member when I got my first intake on my auto accord. It sounded pretty sweet lol

 

It helped the gas mileage a little bit on my stock auto LS. Gave me roughly an extra 30 miles per tank.

 

it might... just stay out of the throttel...drive like you have a newborn in the back.

 

IMO you get an intake to enjoy the sound, NOT the gas mileage. If you drive like a *****, then there's no point in having an Intake, IMO, inless you just got it for mileage.

 

same here when i got ram air it did waste my gas more but i got my car tuned up nd it really does help with gas

 

It shouldn't be an incredible amount of difference if there was a difference. You can do so much to maintenance type of things like air filter, sp, sp wires, fuel filter, and oil change to help your mpg, but it all comes down to how You drive. The things I said do help, but not that much, about an additional 20-50 miles to a tank driving conservatively. But we all know, thats damn near impossible with tegs.

 

id say in the long run youll notice a diffence!

 

This doesn't validate that you actually can gain gas mileage. It matters on what you do in the "long run". If you leave your setup the way it is then you can't expect to gain mpg magically do you? But, if you get a tune with all the bolt-ons that you've put on the teg in the "long run," then you might actually get some desired results. But that is all ahead of what the post is about. He's asking if adding just an intake can help or not help our tegs mileage, and imo, it doesn't, atleast not in a significant way.

 

It's just for the sound. People are just in denial.

 

I wouldn't buy one just to get better gas mileage. Save the money and buy gas!

 

Dc's get good gas mileage with or without an intake.

 

that might be the best advice u got if your really just looking to save gas there alot more better things u can do to save gas then get an intake. he also forgot the tires pressure and injection cleaner and stuff like that but maybe the best conservatively

 

ouch 94 teggy shot down!!!

But a better breathing engine will burn fuel more efficiently

 

intake is for fun and cool sounds, not for fuel economy.

 

there is a technical term for this, but i don't remember it. all cars usally run on the rich side. putting in a intake will trick your ecu in saying that there is less air comming in ( i know sounds weird but that's what i can remember). so the ecu will lean out the fuel mixture cause it thinks it's getting less air, when in fact it's actually getting more air.

and thinking on that, this leans more towards a car that has a MAF sensor, and that is running a cold air intake. im not to sure on how it would work on our honda cars that run a MAP sensor with a ram air intake.

 

supposedly the comptech icebox gives better fuel efficiency but i cant find anything to back that up and i doubt it would be much of anything

 

Intakes and exhausts increase your gas mileage. It is not enough to necessitate spending more than $50 on either one (merely for the mileage) because each only gives you an extra 1-3 mpg.

 

Yeah this sounds familiar. I read an article on Honda tuning once with newer obd2 cars (ex. G35s, Zs) having this problem. How they're actually losing power performance wise by simply adding bolt-ons until they reflash their ECUs.

But I think that the ecu will make you run rich instead of lean like you said, to compensate for the lesser air getting in. I'm not sure if this is true for tegs though

 

i always wanted to kno as well haha ima noob i know..

 

its for gas mileage, i hardly take my car over 4k rpms. i drive about 400 miles a week so it would be dumb to drive my car harder.