The SS is a bad Ass looking car but the hood is only window dressing.. look at it.. the air pick up is from LAMINAR airflow.. it goes through a circutous path then finally after being heated up agian.. it enters the Air filter... window dresssing
now i'm gonacheat a bit because GM engineers were worried about Hydrolock rain baffles were put in the WS6 hood.. air still flows .. but remove the rain baffle and use an oil impregnated filter.. and you have Air from the HIGH PRESSURE CROSSS SECTION.. going striaght in..and into the air filter.. still cold from the outside and at a velocity..
to compare this
the Vette has a Vairam.it uses 2 air pick ups in the"High pressure cross section" and routes them to a sealed filter.. and it works as at speed as low as 50 or less.... Variram Guarantee's their coustomers a drop of .35-4 in the 1/4 and a MPH gain of 3-4 mph.. OR YOUR MONEY BACK ( obviosly this ram effect works)
i printed out their info..it was 10 pages long..
damn!
.. they explained why it works.. because at WOT youre in a - atmospheric psi so even if you bring it up to say atmosphere which is 14.696.. your likely to gain on a 99 C5 they got 36-40 hp
Using this very principal..many Ws6 owners have gone further ..(like myself) and spent the 5 bucks for wether stripping and when the hood is shut the exsit from the ram air is sealed to the entrance of the airbox
this and along with an augmented suspension by Pontiac in 99.. John Heinrikcy(sp) was commisioned to improve handling and ride..and he did.. .the WS6/TA is a better..or shall we say easier to launch
If both the SS and Ws6 started out with similar hp +/- 5 rw.. the Ws6 will consistantly take the ss by a .2 margin..
check out the mags that tested both cars same day same driver.. funny how .2..-..25 comes up
Hell when Popular Mechanics did this test in 99 the SS came up with a grilling 13.5 but the Ws6 was a 13.15
Oh Black Camaro SS .. i have proof on all of this too..
so believe what you want you get what you pay for the aren't identical twins.. everyone knows that
Oh and for the hard of hearing in 01-02 special parts from the LS6 were put on all LS1..Intake mani,exhaust mani,6.0 truck cam, revised programming
and surprise
in 01 and 02.. with an overflow of LS6 BLOCKS.. you had a 1 in 5 chance of getting one as they were allocated to F body use
Just thought you guys wanted to know
especially the fact that you may have a LS6 Block.. Block not engine.. but head and cam willmake a nice difference especially if you Camaro has the BLOCK