can someone repost the pics?!?!? all im seeing is a CLUB PHOTO ad!!!! this post makes no sense but i neeeeedd to read about it...i want ram air too!!! :::SNIFFLE:::
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can someone repost the pics?!?!? all im seeing is a CLUB PHOTO ad!!!! this post makes no sense but i neeeeedd to read about it...i want ram air too!!! :::SNIFFLE:::
nice cover thorny...lol
whats better.....carbed with a scoop, carbed with ram air and scoop or cold air from bottom...
The hood scoop is really more for the carb, sending cool outside air right into the intake through the carb. The scoop will probably work best in the center of the hood (on the centerline) anywhere on the rear half (center-center or center-rear). I'd just put it right above the carb intake so the box setup under the hood would be straight-forward.
EFI cars do best with a cold air intake away from the hot engine ahead of the front right wheel. A scoop doesn't work well because he air needs to go through the throttle body and the airbox/filter setup would be akward, large, and complex.
just a thought..havent given it serious look/thought...
Well....ACCORDing (haha) to the preasure diagram on the 1st or 2nd page..theres A LOT of preasure on the nose.....
Soooo..... put a small box with a pipe/hose/ custom box shaped pipe......running to the carb intake box. you would have to remove the batery. but heres a horrible image.
that little box under the radiator is the intlit for the ram air duct. It sits behind the bumper...
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i think you'll get it
i would probably put a hole in the hood, I mean like a hood scoop or whatever....then run the intake piping towards the hole...does that make sense???
I have the idea in my head.....I dunno if someone has done that b4
yeah. thats pretty much your common hoodscoop ram air deal. you gotta put in weird layers to prevent water from going in. take a look at a subaru outback--with the scoop--my mom has a 00limited..good example of water intake prefventionQuote:
Originally posted by od2681
i would probably put a hole in the hood, I mean like a hood scoop or whatever....then run the intake piping towards the hole...does that make sense???
I have the idea in my head.....I dunno if someone has done that b4
OK here is my 2 cents on this subject. I was also concerned about intake air temp under my hood. For my solution see my webpage and the link for pics and a description of what i installed... http://hometown.aol.com/turfnsurf/page5.html
cool! nice writeup
Thanks Bobafett, I hope this will help some of the people out here.
so did the ram air setup in the bumper give you a noticable difference from the regular short intake system you previously had? i am thinking of making something similar to what you have going there... :)
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not so much from a standing start but definately when im on the highway and need to pass or merge.. The car pulls better and also downshifts faster with a "kick in the ass" feeling now.(yeah yeah i know i have a slack-o-matic) but it's great in traffic...LOL
cool... maybe it will be worth it in the winter months.. for summer i plan on haveing a true CAI, i might as well! :)
Yeah that is a good plan.. IM making a heat shield to cover my filter and force the intake to use just the cold air from the scoop. After that is done I will have transformed mine into a true CAI. It should work cause the tubing is 3" ID the same as the rest of my intake after the filter to the Throttle Body.
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pics?
i think I have one more idea that probably sucks but i dont know..
ok here is the deal...you know that the old machine guns had water running around the barrel to keep it cool so it wont overheat....Kinda like the radiator....I had an idea about running water around the intake to keep the intake cooler, so the air wont be heated...does that make sense...kinda run hte water pipes through the air conditioner to keep it real cold...use a water pump..you know...
I dont know but it seems ok...im probably wrong
..or have a cold water resivoir in the trunk and spray the manifold with washer nozzles.
od2681---i was thiniging the same thing but using ....something like freon ...like from an old refrigerator.
Ford has done something like that for there new Lightning. It's called the super cooler it uses the A/C to super cool the intercooler for short bursts of power. It takes like 2min. to charge up and is good for about 30-45sec. and an increase of 50 extra HP. A light comes on to let you know that the system is ready and does not activate unless you are at full throttle.
OOooooooo i want one
Cool, aerodynamics...
I'm really tempted to write a buttload about fluid mechanics, but nobody would care except the couple of engineers... plus, my memory is unreliable. By the way, I hear Reynolds was an assgoblin.
Man, that's a fun word...
-Geek
hahahah assgoblin....
i decided that COLDER air really isnt the issue....its AIR INDUCTION thats the needed factor. Cold air is a plus..but you can spend all the money in the wolrd cooling your air.....but the more air you get in, the faster and more force it has.....thats where there secret lies. Not cold air...but more air. more air, more gas bigger explosions,more turns of the cam, more vrooom.
So a CAI or a short ram with a hood scoop is good...forget cooling it
hook up a turbo like induction system to a hood scoop or fender slits or the bumper and SUCK the air and FORCE it into the engine....need to ubgrade the carbs....or increase mix on the EFI....but it would be better then a hydrogen cooling system i think.
about the spraying water over the manifold... were would be the best place to locate the nozzles.. also how would u "charge" the water... so it doesnt run like a garden hose... ?
but this idea is very good..
the other modification i have to the previous idea..
u know the coolant hoses that run throught the throttle body.. well ive seen people bypass those and just plug them.. why not run the water from the trunk reservor through there.. like a continuou cycle.. and have a switch for when to turn it on.. seeing as how u dont want it on when its cold and u just started the car..:)
this idea.. seems pretty good in my option:werd:
More to the effect that i had before.. i just thought fo something...
if u use the water reservor for the water to run throught.. and disconnect it from the radiator..(as long as ur hoping not to overheat...) also all u need was some pump to run the water from the radiator reserve tank to the tb and back to the reserve tank.. id consider moving the reserve tank away from the radiator.. probably screw the system against the firewall..
any takes on this idea?
heheh to keep the water. cold..
ICE ANYONE? lol..
ive seen this on a speedvision show like 2 yrs back.. drag cars would put pieces of ice in the radiator .. or something to that effect
