ram air

[cliffloehr]

I'll bet the PVC method would not work as well as it is hoped. I read an article (somewhere) stating that because the stock intake and the Cold Air Intake (CAI) get air from the same location it's really not a different temp. The benefits come more from the flat-round tubing providing an area where the air can settle down on it's way to the intake manifold. Making like a jet streem. Moving the air filter out to the fender provides are longer cool-down path for the air, but the stock airway (between the throttle body and the MAF) has a flexible chunk of plastic, full of deep ripples, wracking the air-flow just before entering the manifold... stupid design for a muscle car! If you also replace that piece of the plastic with PVC, the result would be much better. I installed the $38 CAI off ebay two weeks ago... while I had some problems with the seller, I am very happy with the result.

Getting back to ram air... The elbow in the CAI could be repositioned to point down and hooked into the ram-air system I was talking about last week (above)