ram air?

[chevyguy93]

Does anyone do a ram air mod on their cavy? I've got a 93 cavy and thinkin bout doing a ram air mod, but not sure as to what i should expect in terms of the result.

[94VL]

I dont think on the 2.2 it would make much of a difference.

[TC23]

I have a ram air hood on my car and its purely for looks, they will only help you at like 100mph

[PsychoJJ]

Ram air indoction such as porting and hoods work about as well as sticking a puertorican midget in your engine bay blowing hot air on the filter.

~~~~~~~~~~~~DISCLAIMER~~~~~~~~~~~~

This post was in no way an insult to the puertorican population or its affiliates this was mainly out of humor. Yet again this post was not intented as an insult to puertoricans......well except for those ones that smell funny and over use the word "mang" but only those ones.

[chevyguy93]

haha, yea. anyways. i was thinking about having some kind of hose go from infront of the car, right to the throttle body (with a filter). Because i realized that the tube going into the filter is closed and has just a tiny hole in it.

[PsychoJJ]

Thats just a bad and wrong idea. The closer you get to the TB with any kind of filter or air induction system increases your chance of getting water into the mix without the proper use of a bypass valve.

[my99cavy]

Originally Posted by PsychoJJ

Ram air indoction such as porting and hoods work about as well as sticking a puertorican midget in your engine bay blowing hot air on the filter.

~~~~~~~~~~~~DISCLAIMER~~~~~~~~~~~~

This post was in no way an insult to the puertorican population or its affiliates this was mainly out of humor. Yet again this post was not intented as an insult to puertoricans......well except for those ones that smell funny and over use the word "mang" but only those ones.

hahhaha lmao that was some funny shit man.... good way to put it i guess.

[CavLCD128]

1st off a tube stright from the hood to the throttle body even with a filter is not only gonna suck air...it'l get thirsty and suck some water to...lol

[PsychoJJ]

Originally Posted by CavLCD128

1st off a tube stright from the hood to the throttle body even with a filter is not only gonna suck air...it'l get thirsty and suck some water to...lol

Is there an echo in here?

[chevyguy93]

lol well thanks for the replys. my knowledge on cars isnt that great, so the input really helped =P i was just tryin to think of a cheap and easy way for a little hp boost

[CavLCD128]

Originally Posted by PsychoJJ

Is there an echo in here?

lol WHOOOOOOPS...

[94VL]

Here's a wild idea I had.....and I know it would never pass muster on keeping water out of the intake...but.....
The 94 J car has a solid "grille" panel.....cut a rectangular section out of the middle across it,rig it to a Chrysler "Air Grabber" -type mechanism that allowed it to open at low vacuum levels,close under normal conditions.....when closed nobody would be much the wiser unless they look and see the cut lines..when open it would surely RAM air into the engine (yea,rig a plenum behind it so it could direct the air to the intake system).Major problems with this? Opening wide to allow any and all water thrown up from the vehicles ahead to enter and hydrolock the engine.Lack of access to run intake hosing behind the grille/around the hood lock support/radiator support/battery.And the inability to watch this wild slot open and close in direct reaction to the gas pedal.

[dkjones96]

Hydrolock the engine with water from other cars or rain? not while the engine is running, maybe if it was a tube straight up and it had been rained in it then you went to start it. You know the best way to clean clean engine from carbon in the combustion chamber? revv the engine up to 2-3 grand and stick a vacuum hose in a bucket of water it steam cleans the engine.

If you had that front baffle and angled it at the back to a point that had a small hole to rid the casing of water you'd be fine because the water is going to go down whenever it can and unless your hauling ass rain won't suck up into the engine just drip out of the pipe and when your hauling ass you'd need a shitload of water to lock it up. you can take a waterhose and spray that water into the throttlebody of an engine that is wide open high revving and it'll actually perform BETTER (intercooling effect of water and air)