Any opinions on which performs better with the SS scooped hood?

I heard the cold air induction duct can have problems with sucking up water. Anyone know of any instances of this happening? I don't drive in the rain unless a rain storm catches me by surpise, but I would rather be safe than sorry.

 

all you need is a 100 $ lid

 

on the SS hood Lid = K&N FIPK

SSRA >>> SS hood

SSRA + Lid >>> flowpack

i have only heard of one TRUE "i saw it happen" instance of water in the intake with the SSRA, and that was an idiot going through 6" puddles to see how much water he could kick up!

i've driven in TORRENT south florida downpours and have not had a problem. ive checked the airbox afterwards and found no water.

could it happen in daily driving...yeah....but then again a meteor could hit you when you're in line at McDonalds too

i would suggest just getting a good lid to start with, it's a good 10hp gain over stock.
and if you want to get a true ram air system going...the SSRA is the key.

 

SS hoods suck as far as "ram air" goes. But they do look cool as hell. I say get a Lid and SSRA. Like teke said you would have to run through a huge puddle (more like a small pond) to even be at risk of hydrolock. Plus you can always make a blockoff plate or foam insert and eliminate the risk all together.

I've had my lid/ssra combo for a year and a half and I couldn't be happier with it.


Good luck

 

I have not used either the SSRA or fipk, but I do have the SLP Lid, SLP Cai and K&N Airfilter and I am extremely happy with them. I have driven in Rain and through some puddles that I was afraid, I would get water through my filter but never happened. I am sure the SSRA would be better then the cai however, I like the sotp feel that I gained.

Charlie

 

Thanks for the info. I will be going with the SLP lid and smooth bellows, but I'm not sure about the SSRA or the CAI. They claim about 10hp, but I wonder if that is the same with an SS hood vs. regular hood? Any one know what kind of gain adding just the SSRA or CAI with an SS hood and SLP lid already installed?

Also, what is the free air mod?

 

you do know that the smooth bellows is $50 of wasted money. it's strictly a visual mod.

anyway...10hp is about right for a lid.

the gains for the SSRA will be about the same for the SS hood. because even the SS hood requires all the air to come in through a 10" long slot that is 3/4" wide. the SSRA is more than that and it is a true ram air, with very little "bends" for the air to flow through like the SS hood.

and remember, at slower speeds, the SSRA works just like all the CAI kits. HOWEVER...at highway speeds it becomes a true ram air system....which the CAI kits do not do!

 

Here we go with this debate again.....The SS hood does not have any PROVEN dyno #'s, but at HW speeds I have read that it provides a MILD supercharging effect. It's hard to reproduce the driving conditions on a dyno. As the term says, Ram-Air. Not so much of a RAMMing effect bit more of a denser air charge beacuse of the ambietnt (sp?) air temp outside the car. Also, it's almost immpossible to measure the MASS quantity of air that you are cutting through when you are driving, VS. the unmeasured quantity of air that ACTUALLY makes it through the "ram air" scoop and into your motor. Within time of driving at HW speeds at a sustained RMP level, it takes time for the intake manifold and TB to cool down to a point where the air temp actually entering the cumbustion chamber is cooler than what it originally was. (this was also posted in a similar thread) .....Hard to Measure....

I am going to go with TEKE184 on this one....I would think that, seeing as the SSRA scoop actually hangs down into the oncomming air flow (alike the R-A hood does), it would have a little more effective result VS. the Ram-Air hood. -because of the gaskets and seals aquired with the purchase. Yes, I believe that the Smooth bellows are a waste of money and is just used to hype up the SLP package. I have them and noticed no difference over the lid itself. -Dyno proven, somewhere, uneffective. I have not installed my SS hood yet, so I cannot comment on the "water in the intake" concern.