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Old 11-13-2008, 11:54 AM
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Me thinks Frenchy bonehead... haha Girly Handwriting?

I would say you are very close Frenchy
 
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Old 11-13-2008, 01:26 PM
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I drew up somethin quick in Autodesk inventor for ya.

Gray = hood
yellow = scoop
puple = drain
blue = filter box with lip guard



Either make your own drain or use anything conical drain-like and a lip to direct water into it. I drew mine up so you could put a hose on the end of it to lead the water through the engine bay. If you look hard enough there's a raised lip on the intake box to keep water from goin in the box (pic below).



Here's one just showin hole for intake tube

 
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Old 11-13-2008, 03:33 PM
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A cool way to somewhat measure the change from stock to ram would be to install a boost gauge. All you need to do is hook it up to a vacuum. Negative boost would measure how much work your engine is doing. Zero would be a coast. Posive boost would obviously measure forced air. It'd be interesting to see if the setup actually forces air.

If you installed it before you completed your ram air you should see some changes in negative psi. The closer to zero the better your fuel economy is

but that's just a thought
 
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Old 11-13-2008, 05:21 PM
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Yeah, I wouldn't expect boost either an engine is a pretty good vacuum. Fuel injection for a v8 is usually over 1000cfm.

I'd still expect the efficiency of ram air to curve the numbers all around
 



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