Re: Air Intakes
I actually read most of this thread but if I am in extreme repetition please let me know.
Yes the German engineers messed up huge!
Common I don’t care why but they put the two filters on top of the engine bay like a great big heat sink. Then they made the intake tubes a very small diameter. Pathetic really. Yes the rest of the engine does a great job and the performance is there regardless.
I produce intake kits that actually perform and there are so many myths that you could spend all day trying to educate a person after you de-mythe’d there information base.
The basics are known more flow better performance. yes and no. Remember you need to take into account the engine and how optimized it already is. Intakes don’t add power they free up handicapped power.
Heat is very important with cars like the fwd Northstar that has a very hot engine bay. Actually dyno runs on a caddy short ram intake system reaped a loss in power. Turns out the flow difference was not enough to compensate for the heat.
The best cost effective heat cover was and has been thermal wrap. Flexible and can be molded to work as a sleeve.
Cold air boxes can work but plastic or aluminum alone still heats up and does not optimize the unit.
Ram air..ask anyone who works at Nasa ( yes even a janitor) they will laugh at you. Ram air requires alot more speed than we get with our standard runs.. now add the fact most ram air hoods open out at a part of the hood either with no airflow or worse vacuum. Most ram air hoods do not provide more than a good cold air intake.
Ram air set up on the front bumper or this general area is best and can be set up to avoid water ingestion.
I am doing an intake for a 500 series Mercedes and it has a similar system to the crossfire. I will show you when it’s done. Yes with dyno numbers.
Ty