functional nostrals

[heresjimmydean]

so ive read the how to on making functional nostrals (http://forum.camarov6.com/showthread.php?t=63731) and im wondering if you guys think it would be enough gains to cut up my perfectly good hood. im short on cash and i have already cut the fins out of the airlid and removed the air silencer. i also have a highflow cat and magnaflow catback(xmas present, w00t :banana: :banana: :banana: ). this summer im gonna be getting some used cia headers and K&N fipk really cheap. so do you guys think it would be worth it to make my hood "functional ram air"?

[BlackBird00]

Re: functional nostrals

No air at all is actually "rammed" into your lid/intake whatever... It will only give you some fresh air. No performance gains come with a functional hood.

[Smoke Panther]

Re: functional nostrals

it does work. What the gains are exactly are questionable.

[Blizzard242]

Re: functional nostrals

Getting fresh air into your intake is always a good idea in my book. Just be careful of those really wet days. The ram air effect though.. I think you have to be going reallllly fast for there to be any difference in performance.. and then the difference that you get won't even amount to a whole lot if you could even get your car up to those speeds. That would also require other modifications to your airlid to direct more air into it I imagine. So yeah, I agree with Smoke Panther heh.

[Gatt9]

Re: functional nostrals

Getting fresh air into your intake is always a good idea in my book. Just be careful of those really wet days. The ram air effect though.. I think you have to be going reallllly fast for there to be any difference in performance.. and then the difference that you get won't even amount to a whole lot if you could even get your car up to those speeds. That would also require other modifications to your airlid to direct more air into it I imagine. So yeah, I agree with Smoke Panther heh.

That's what I was thinking, you'd need to fab some kind of extension that would break the envelope. Problem being, and I'm no engineer, I think at that point you'd create points of extreme stress at the base of the extension and moderate stress at the points the hood is connected, as there'd be alot of upward pressure especially as speed increases.

Probably best to think of it as an extremely expensive CAI at most...

[Blizzard242]

Re: functional nostrals

Yeah basically if you're looking for performance gains, put your money towards something else. If you want to fab up and market a kit to rip off other kidlets that don't know any better.. I want in. Hell, let's throw in an electric super charger while we're at it!