Any thoughts on it? It's pretty cheap too.

 

Where can you get one of those? Do you have a website where you can purchase one? and how much does the thing cost?

 

I found it here, from one of maxima.org aftermarket parts links.Ram Air

 

how would you hook it to the intake or is it designed to be used with a cone filter

 

It looks like that shield peice goes over the cone filter. I dunno, bot i'm sure you could make it work somehow.

 

Looks to me like you'd have to cut a hole in your hood to get the true ram air effect.

 

No the intake mounts in the grille or below it, in the opening below the bumper

 

i might make a trip to the hardware store and buy some flex pipe and a heater duct and see what i can dream up sounds like a fun project to me

 

Until someone can prove to me a "RAM air" kit is better than a CAI or HAI with a dyno then they won't get my money. As it stands now someone can build something and people will buy it w/o knowing if it truely works or not. It's all in the marketing and people just eat it up...

 

Well, think about it. Mounted in the front of the car, at highway speeds you would have serious air pressure being forced into the engine. Almost like the boost of a turbo. I bet it works better than those crap electric turbos selling on ebay for $200

 

u should take out the front turn signal and fabrucate that thing to the opening and then run the tubing to your intake

 

That would probably work, but it would also look real ugly.

 

lest think about this...shouldn't "ram air" in theory go into the motor(intake man.) at a staright path to be most effective(like the Ram Air T/As and old muscle cars)?? think about all the bends and curves that the air has to pass thorugh to get to the MAF if that thing is mounted behind the grille...by the time it gets to the MAF, down the remainder of the intake tube and into the motor, the whole "ram" effect is lost pretty much right??

IMO, its just another fad/sales pitch like Chris said.

 

by using all of that piping i think all you are acomplishing is a cai, which would perform better since it would be shorter but still gets cold air

 

If air is being forced in under pressure, then bends shouldn't matter. The amount of pressure going in on end is the same coming out the other. Look at a turbo car, all the bends in most of the pipes from the turbo to the intake.

 

turbo is different. turbo is sucking air in at very high pressures. ram air is just being pushed in at the speed you are going. for there to truly be any noticable effect you would have to be traveling pretty quick or there be a lot of wind blowing on the front of the car.

 

ummmm, thats why when you fabricate turbo piping you try to make the LEAST bends as possible...and there is a BIG difference between 8psi of pressurized air and wind blowing in front of your car at 60mph!

 

the ram air affect into the engine is lost if there isn't a seal between the tubing and the intake. you can be going 120 mph and most of the air will just go around the intake.

also, ram air is not so simple. if you study fluid/aero dynamics, a funnel with a short "funnelling" distance (such as the weaponR design) will create so much turbulence when high velocity air is rushed towards it that it will actually get less air through the other end of the funnel as the air velocity increases. to achieve a good source of "ram air" you need a really long funnel so the air is gradually fed into the tube or just a really big tube and no funnel.

weaponR ram air gets a thumbs down from me for trying to market this poor design.

 

A friend of mine built one for his camaro a few years back with pvc pipe. Just make sure you mount it high. He didn't and drove it after a snow storm. What a mess.

 

Just think about air traveling and then hitting a bend and having to change directions. It's going to slow down. This POS is nothing more than a CAI with more tubing. You want the least amount of bends and least amounting piping possible....