Ram Air - Fact or Fiction?

[SikMindz]

Can those of you that are on GMPower back me up here? I'd hate to add another dumb GA owner to the growing list..:confused:

http://www.gmpowertalk.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=275116#post275116

Spoon?

[IrateSpeed6]

Oh baby! It kills me that Gator backed it up with info from NASA... lol

[Drew99GT]

The Ram air on the Trans Am is a piece of **** too, unless you remove the rain baffles, just like on our cars. And it doesn't go straight into the airbox, it has to make a 180 degree bend back down the inside of the hood to enter the front of the airbox. So it's basically not even as straight as ours. I think ram air is way way more efficient if it's actually a sealed, straight path into the engine. The fast toys ram air kit for LS1's outperforms the open K & N intake dramatically.

That's funny on that thread how they were arguing whether ram air is "considered" forced induction :confused: Wow, give me a freagin break!!!

[SikMindz]

LoL..what a great thread...Spy and the NASA stuff Gator linked to is great!!

[iceman]

This dude is being a shmuck..

[Travis99Gt]

I was going to buy a FTRA and modify it to fit out car somehow but decided against it. It would be awesome to have some sort of REAL ram air :)

[Drew99GT]

Damn, know we know why marketing is such a powerful, and more importantly, lucrative tool, especially in the automotive world!!!

And that dude saying that there isn't that much of a difference between cold air and warm air inducted into an engine? I guess intercooling is just a marketing ploy as well :thumbs:

[Hurricane]

I don't feel like making an account there just for one post. Someone go post this pic in that thread.

http://members.rogers.com/j.m.dirk/capacity.jpg