Im with this guy %110. This topic is far fetched even for me. This would work nothing like a turbocharger. the whole reason a turbo is able to build boost is because it is a closed circuit of air, meaning there arent any leaks. What happens when you have a boost leak? your psi drops. So assuming this tank of air would be the turbo, and a line running to the intake pipe injecting however much air you choose, its not gonna build pressure, if the air completlyfills the IM,TB and intake pipe, its all just gonna blow out through the filter. To me i think this would be like a ram air setup and only good for like 1-2hp. But its not gonna build positive pressure in the intake mani.i can't believe this has even been a topic of conversation. So your going to put "5psi" into your intake? Have you ever felt 5 psi from a air tank before? It's absolutely nothing. 5psi from an air tank is not even close to the same as 5psi from a turbo lol. even if you put 90 psi from this air tank into your "short ram intake" where is the air going to go? Some will flow into the engine while disrupting turbulence from the engine breathing in air while the rest will just exit the filter of the intake lol. Second of all doing anything pre-map sensor like this while keeping everything stock really does nothing. Even if it was enough to make the map sensor compensate it will only compensate so much....but 5psi of air pressure from a tank will do NOTHING except rob you of power and add weight to your car. Buy one of those E-Superchargers off ebay for 70 bucks, you might have more luck than this...but not much... ....fail....:kickass:
p.s. this thread should be locked and burned in hell forever for how ridiculous it is.
I'm not trying to spawn a e-fight or anything, but I just can't get past this. If the engine is already sucking in as much air as it can, why do you gain power with a turbo? A turbo does the same exact thing, it's shooting in air too, so why don't the turbo experience the same problem? Meh, I suppose since a turbo's air doesn't have anywhere it can backtrack too, since the compressor is always shoving more and more air.Like I said, your engine is already sucking in as much air as it pretty much can. Your trying to force more air in a place where it can't really go anymore. So therefore since your already ingesting as much air as you can through your intake valves the access air is going to try and escape. therefore it will revert back towards the next possible escape route, being the throttle body, and will push against the incoming air reducing it's velocity. Also please don't try to hog out your intake ports, thats not going to help.
That's a nice piece of information. Thanks. What if we shoot it further away from the MAP sensor on the intake tube, so it fills up the intake pipe, and flows like normal quality, but faster?Your increasing airflow volume (supposedly), but your destroying the flow quality. Every part of the engine before the combustion chamber is specifically sized and designed, through millions of dollars of R&D by the manufacturer, to maximize airflow volume, airflow speed and airflow quality into the combustion chamber. The intake arm, throttle body, IM intake port, IM plenum, IM runners, intake ports and the valves themselves - all diameters and legnths of these parts play a role in drawing air into the engine. This device you want to install will wreck the flow quality. The intake maniflod's on Integra's are "acoustiically tuned" to assist airflow entering the intake ports; this IM design requires quality airflow to work properly, that thing will kill the quality.
You'd be better off just getting an aftermarket intake with a quality high flow air filter like a K&N.