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flounderguts
2 BBL ''SuperSix''
Joined: 26 Aug 2011
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Ram air ute?
(Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:46 pm)
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Ok...I'm well into my weber conversion. I've decided to go with a DGV 32/36 mostly because I'm getting one for free. If I need more performance, it comes with a kit for synchronous opening, instead of progressive, and as my motor is pretty much stock...that's enough.
There is an awful lot of room inside my engine bay, and I've been thinking about installing a wee bit of ram air. I have a few options for routing the intake.
1. I can run the intake pipe to the radiator mounting flange, pop a hole in that, and stick an air horn behind the grill. Easy, but a bit of fiddlyness if I have to squish the intake through a long and skinny hole in the rad flange. I can probably weld a wider flange on the driver's side, and offset the rad to get more room
2. I can run the intake to the fender or below the grill. Right now the truck is ridiculously tall (PO did some weird stuff) and there's plenty of room below. But I am planning to lower the front a bit, and that might get in the way. I've never run the plenum to the fender before, and I'm not sure I like the idea of potential dust and spray from the tire.
3. Today I remembered the old headlight air horns from the NASCAR heydays. I remember that some guys with quad-light cars would remove the inner set of lights and hook up air induction tubes. I have a 62 four eye ute, and I was thinking this might be sort of cool. I've been mulling over what it would take to convert the other headlights to dual-filiment halogens. I'm pretty sure it's just a minor mounting difference and a connector swap. I'd put in a relay via the headlight switch for the increased draw. Would this be cool? I might even just use ONE of the four headlights, and use the one on the passenger side for something else cool...I dunno, maybe a goldfish bowl? 
Any other opinions, Ideas? I have the materials and skills to fabricate any size and/or shape airbox, and I'm planning to run the ram to the airbox, through a filter, and then via 3" to the carb plenum.
Flounderguts
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Ceej
SSRN National Champion
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
Posts: 6454
Location: Oregon
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(Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:15 pm)
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Mark's car has intakes that lead from the headlight openings to the cowl, which brings cold air to the box he built.
Anything under 135 mph isn't going to amount to much ram air effect. Cold air, on the other hand, is pretty good stuff! 
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Aggressive Ted
Supercharged
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 3318
Location: Black Diamond, WA
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Ram air
(Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:58 pm)
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| Sure, I have been running cold ram air for a few years now which helps a little on the mileage and performance. Click on the red link below my name to view pictures. |
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Old Car Scott
TBI Slant 6
Joined: 09 Jan 2004
Posts: 208
Location: Tracy, CA
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(Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:49 pm)
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I love this setup from the AussieSpeed website. I've though about doing it this way on my own car. |
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1974duster kev
Turbo Slant 6
Joined: 13 Jul 2007
Posts: 627
Location: clearwater florida
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(Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:36 pm)
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I made one with my last motor using my snorkel hoodscoop I picked up a tenth or two in the 1/8
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