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Old 06-18-2003, 07:07 PM
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Smile ram air install need help

i was gonna buy a ram air box for my iroc-z but i hear you can home fabricate one if this is so i need a website with pictures and directions so i can do this up people please help me here need more hp cant have these vettes runnin on me anymore
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Old 06-18-2003, 07:09 PM
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and also a how to on porting my air lid thanks
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http://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/tech/ramair.shtml

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Old 06-19-2003, 08:12 AM
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I am thinking of doing this. Is there any harm when driving in the rain?
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Old 06-19-2003, 09:18 AM
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i owned an 87 iroc with this style ram air for almost 5 years driving in the torrent downpours of Florida...and had no problems.

it makes the car pull REAL hard at highway speeds, such as passing situations.
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Old 06-19-2003, 10:41 AM
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Thanks Teke 184, I have lived in Florida, I know what your talking about. I will do the ram-air modification!I have removed the baffles from the air box and drilled extra holes, but fresh incoming air should help out more.
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the biggest problem i noticed with the ram air setup was that since you are now taking the air from around the foglights and shooting it inot the intake, it is no longer going over the radiator. i noticed that the car heated up alot more in slow traffic...where your speed isn't enough to push air from the air dam under the car.

i cured this with a lower thermostat and a manual fan switch. that way when in traffic i could just hit the switch and stay nice and cool.

just a thought...but like i said...it was ONLY at slow speeds or where you were going from one light to the next without enough air flow...know what i mean?
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Old 06-19-2003, 02:26 PM
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I think the answer is yes to this question but does it completly bypass the air dam on the bottom of the car? I would think that if so one of the greatest advantages of this system would be that you could then remove the air dam and block off the whole underneath your car because it always seemed to me like the air dam must be creating a rediculous amount of drag.
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it doesn't bypass the airdam at all.....if anything it makes it more necessary than ever. By diverting the air into the filters, you reduce the flow to the radiator. You NEED that airdam to keep up the airflow through the radiator for keeping the engine cool.
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