Free Ram Air

[99Camaro99]

Is this easy to do, or should I have someone else do it? Consider the fact that I'm paranoid that I might screw something up while doing it! [img]smile.gif[/img]

(oh and btw, can you do this along with a cold air intake? if not, which one is better?)

[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: 99Camaro99 ]</p>

[southern94]

i got both done and i love it did it my slef not hard can't mess anything up really
:cool:

[99V6Redbird]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by 99Camaro99:
Is this easy to do, or should I have someone else do it? Consider the fact that I'm paranoid that I might screw something up while doing it! [img]smile.gif[/img]

(oh and btw, can you do this along with a cold air intake? if not, which one is better?)

[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: 99Camaro99 ]<hr></blockquote>

simple man.......... took me all of 5 minutes for parts, and a half hour of dremmeling

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[99Camaro99]

would anyone like to go into detail on this...or point me where I can find info on how to do this?

[CrazyBosnian]

ok, to get this straight for you. The SLP cold air intake is the same thing as you doing the free ram air mod. SLP CAI,( a metal square tube type of thing) will help your car direct the air more, and will protect the engine from particles comming in it. Those two ARE the same thing, except you pay about 125 for the SLP one. Personally i would do the free ram air. Another mod you can do is buy a new lid, that will elliminate the air silencer and the little finns inside you lid right now.
The directions to the free ram air: www.installuniversity.com
And you can get the whisper lid from thunder racing or Tbyrne. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[RaVeN1469]

I say screw the lid and cut everything out of your stock one. Yeah it's not as good as buying one but it's a helluva lot cheaper. Go to www.ls1.com and check out their mods. Thats how I learned to do the fra and I just figured out the lid myself. Pliers to rip everything off and a dremel to smooth it out. Still trying to work on the stupid air silencer behind the lid though, stupid stupid 98 TB :mad:

[99Camaro99]

Look I don't have the air silencers and I have the whisper lid already (read sig below). So you're saying that I can either get ripped off from SLP or ghetto rig it myself. This should help raise my trap speeds in the end of my runs because the car will be sucking in more air, correct?

[CrazyBosnian]

correct, you will feel a difference.

[EnzoFerrari]

I did the free ram air and noticed a difference especially at high speeds going up hill, seemed to be more power. BUT, boy did my air filter get crammed with bugs! Easy solution:
Take a little screen (cheap screen door screen is what I use) and put it under the bracket that the K&N sits on. It is big enough screen so the flow is not impeaded, and I dont have to knock bugs out of my filter every week. I cant remember if that bracket was in the car before I got my K&N, so you may have to use a different install method. But just an idea and somthing to consider.

-John
98 Camaro A4

[99Camaro99]

Bugs in the filter....NIIIICE...I'll make sure that doesn't happen and put the screen on like you said. :D

[Chrisz24]

I used the instructions off of www.installuniversity.com and it went well. I dont have a dremmel so I used a mess of hack saws and little saws, it looks pretty good and I noticed a difference right away, I did a K&N filter the same day.

[Jeff Pristelski]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr> Still trying to work on the stupid air silencer behind the lid though, stupid stupid 98 TB <hr></blockquote>

Raven... check this out...
98 without silencer...