{"id":175,"date":"2019-01-21T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/?p=175"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:58:13","slug":"mythbusted-cold-air-intakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/mythbusted-cold-air-intakes\/motoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythbusted: Cold Air Intakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><b>Cold air intakes<\/b>\u00a0move the\u00a0<b>air<\/b>\u00a0filter outside of the engine compartment so that cooler\u00a0<b>air<\/b>\u00a0can be sucked into the engine for combustion. Cooler\u00a0<b>air<\/b>\u00a0brings more oxygen (denser\u00a0<b>air<\/b>) into the combustion chamber and that means more power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many blogs and products online that claim these kits add as much as 30bhp to your car. The popular Youtuber&#8217;s &#8220;Mighty Car Mods&#8221; put this myth to bed in this video; with a little help from science and a mechanic.\u00a0The most basic cold air intake consists of a long metal or plastic tube leading to a conical air filter. Power may actually be <strong>lost<\/strong> at certain engine speeds and gained at others. Because of the reduced covering, intake noise is usually increased.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe YouTube'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xwNtjKT_1cA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold air intakes\u00a0move the\u00a0air\u00a0filter outside of the engine compartment so that cooler\u00a0air\u00a0can be sucked into the engine for combustion. Cooler\u00a0air\u00a0brings more oxygen (denser\u00a0air) into the combustion chamber and that means more power. There are many blogs and products online that claim these kits add as much as 30bhp to your car. The popular Youtuber&#8217;s &#8220;Mighty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60,62,61],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motoring","tag-cars","tag-modifications","tag-motoring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}