What happens when you have both foglights break and then your lexan homemade lenses melt? I was inspired by fitisbamf to get a little 'ram-air' going.


I think it's happy to see you. Blower to make sure sufficent airflow is making it in to the engine bay.



This is the tubing from the passenger side up to the intake.


The only angle you can see the 'tubing' from the outside with the hood closed.


Ziptied behind the bumper


Where it meets the air filter. Now we have cold air from the top,bottom, and side.


With the inside spray painted black it looks relatively clean for the rice that it is.


How the $10 3" dryer exhaust 'tubing' is routed.


Intake is cold to the touch even after spirited driving, but only a scanguage will let me test the intake temps to see if this is actually making a difference. Hard to believe it would since most people report intake temps close to ambient.

 

Awesome idea.
If I didn't love my fogs so much I'd do this as well.

 

Don't you have to be going, say, 150 MPH for ram induction to work ?

 

Gotta hook these babys up to the filter so that it's actually sucking air through them holes.

 

Lol.. no..
Besides its keeping intake temps down.

 

Put ur hand out the window. . Palm vertical, and facing the wind. That's what's going in your airbox.. Pretty decent amount of pressure..

 

No but anything past 3 90degree bends and there won't be any ram air flow. For this setup to provide any cold air to the intake there would have to be a sealed box, like the stock box. The intake would then be able to create a vacuum and draw the cold air through these ducts. Good try but you would be better off cooling the front brake calipers from this location.

 

hmmm...I thought you were going to the calipers with the air...the intake seems like it really wouldn't do anything considering all the piping and bends required just to make up to the intake.

 

I'm just going to cut some holes in my hood.

 

Goal is to increase cold air being delivered to the filter, not to increase pressure as that is nigh impossible (static vs dynamic pressure, fluid dynamics suck) merely to deliver more cold air. With my blower about 4 feet away I still deliver alot of cold air through the tubing and the drivers side is pretty much straight. I feel confident I am getting serious airflow above 40mph. I just don't know without a scanguage how to measure intake temps and airflow.

 

Venting the hood with shims/spacers along the back would bring much more cold air flow to your filter by scavenging the stagnant air from under the hood. There is a reason you don't see this length of bends and ducting on race cars, its pointless. You would be much better off cooling your brakes or just sealing off this area for better flow dynamics

 

that is how my stock air box was and if you put your hand over the opening you could feel the vaccum but now i have a cone filter that just has this ram setup too, i honestly think the ram helps cuz after 2 hour drive my intake was still cold to the touch.... and i dont drive very grandma like ....