well the weather has been dank and nasty and cold , ive been fighting random carb freeze up since installing my DANKUS SALVAGEYARD RACING cold air intake , well now its really cold and freezing rain and i got tired of fighting it, i put the factory aircleaner back on it and hooked the heat riser back up and walla what do you know it doesnt stall and sputter and puke any more, i think i can live with it till the weather warms up, any body else had this happen?

 

Actually having that happen on my FI'd car with a CAI intake I fabricated up for it. Doesn't happen until after I've driven about 10 miles or so at highway speeds and then cruise into town where I start noticing it around 40mph or so. It just starts acting like it is missing a spark at a sparkplug and jerks a bit. Only happens on the cold days we've been having here (single digits).

 

Happend when I did my cold air intake. I had to hook my heat riser back up as well. Guess we gotta wait till summer.

 

Two things. First - it's 'voila' not 'walla'. I've seen a lot of 'walla' recently and it really chapes my nipples - almost as badly as 'should of'. *shudder*

Second, an insulated or even straight-up cold-air intake is a bad thing when the weather is cold. A few weeks a year in FL, I pull mine and feel a performance improvement. Put it back on in Feb when the weather is back, and again - another increase in performance.

I'm sure you could stretch those few weeks into few months for the rest of the US.

 

wish it would warm up here in feb. and stop rainin. gotta wait till march, then "walla" warms up.

 

whats the heat riser?? Is it that flap on the inside of the snorkel on the air cleaner housing?

 

Is this a Nikki problem? if so.........

Thats pretty funny!!! Cars should run better in cold weather not worse, and a cold air intake is the cause!!! hahaha boy Mazda knows how to put it to ya.........

Glad I don't have that problem with my SE She runs like a RAPED APE when its about 5deg outside and turbo cars REALLY love it.

 

It's just that a cold-air intake mixed with the cold weather than results in carb freezes.

I'd imagine that anything with a cold-air intake would experience similar problems in cold weather - nikki or not.

 

Welcome to carburator icing as it is called Too much of a good thing can sometimes be not so good.