Custom Ram Air Idea

[Ted]

Sup everyone, was thinking about it in my sleep one night and thought I'd share with you this new project i'm trying to do. A few of you know that I thive and strive for new ram air projects. I while ago I used the peltier effect in my ram air, which runs off a battery onto an iron rod wound in copper coils, one side is extremely cold and the other is hot, (yes the hot side is headed down by the bottom of the engine bay) this method works great in the summer but since it is winter I took it out. My latest sort of works like a vacuum. It took me a while to create. I disassembled a few vacuums around the house and I took a custom tube from my pontiac to rigt up a series of 2 motors so it sucks the air from the outside into it and blows it in to my engine. This works very effectively but I don't know how much this is doing. I know it's more effective then just "regular ram air" which barely even works. It's just less restictive then the stock air box. You would only see gains over 100mph probably. Once I rig up my temp sensor and air/speed gauges I will be able to tell the extra amount of airflow and i'll get some pics up and some info on how I did this for those interested. For my new project, i must be pretty crazy. But I kind of dreamt this idea in my head at night. My friends helping on me. We're trying to rig up something with the same method but more effective. We want to hook up a couple of small air bottles and a very small air compressor to the ram air and as the vacuum pushes air into the system, the compressor will just compress it, etc... right now we just have it so you can remotly open it from the inside of your car, but we're trying to get an automatic setup for it to be constant... Anyone think this is a good idea or am I just crazy?

Ted

[Domestic Violence]

i just fabricated my own ram air and i'm actually quite surprised at the difference. i yanked the black plastic front grill off exposing the styrofoam padding in the bumper. then i went to home depot and bought some 1 1/4" flex tubing, a 1 1/4" paddle bit for my drill, some soft black window screen, and black zip ties. after removing the air box and replacing it with PVC, i drilled a hole in the center of the styrofoam. there is a small hole in the metal in the back where the foam is. i ran the hose into the hole i drilled out. then i ran the hose from the hole in through the front by the windshield washer fluid up into the intake. i have done the free ram air mod so i just ran the hoses directly up against the air filter then bolted everything back into place. i covered the holes in the foam with the screen that i cut into small squares to fit in the opening.

i wasn't expecting much of a difference. at first i couldn't tell, but when i got on a good straight entering the highway, i found out that my modification did a great deal of good. the car is noticeably faster. the air is coming in from the front of the car where these parts of the bumper sort of trap air. it then travels directly to the air filter. it doesn't look gawdy as i've hidden the hoses quite well, plus they are black and look like the electrical wire covering only bigger. the only thing you can see is if you look closely at the screen on the front bumper you will see the two small holes where the tubing is.

not too bad a job for less than $25.

[Ted]

Sounds cool man, I was going to do something with like that but backed out onto my idea. If you check my profile you can catch a pic of what my old ram air looked like. It's kinda bulky... lol. Instead of making it go all the way around like that i cut off the middle section and left the ends of each connected and connected it back up with a flexible rubber peice to go straight down. So it's like coming from above and going straight down into it. So it doesn't have to travel so damn far.

Ted

[Ike]

Hey Ted...where in DE are you?
If you want to get together and work on that idea of yours, let me know...it sounds very interesting, i'd like to see it

[Ted]

Wow I didn't know anyone else was from Delaware on this board, I live down 896 right before the summit bridge, it's in new castle county by bear/glasgow/newark. Send me an email, we can get up sometime, i'd like to meet you.

Ted