bily O wrote:
Mike08Liberty wrote:
It's about better flow and COLD air ... Any intake system is useless if it sucking hot air. Ram air sucks in hot air.
OK, agreed underhood air is very bad. so how dose Ram air pull in hot air when its bassed on running a tube into oncoming outside air? unless its hot outside
What you are describing is a COLD air intake. Ram air intakes are very short and leave the filter under the engine bay. They are called "Ram" air intakes because of the short run and the "Ramming" of the air quickly into the throttle body. Once you extend that to receive cold outside the engine bay air its considered cold air intake.
If you read the "Features" of that Kenne Bell intake "
Picks up only rammed cold air from bumper." They are trying to make 2 different style intakes into one.
Personally I think the design of the Kenne Bell intake isn't very good because the filter element is right next to the engine and will heat up as the engine heats up. Yes you will be pulling in cold air ONCE YOU START MOVING but when you are sitting at the line and during take off you are sucking in HOT air. Also the tubing that is "ramming the cold air" into the engine is corrugated, corrugated tubing has a lot of resistance verses a smooth wall plastic tube. Also the corrugated tubing is very thin and will heat up faster then an 1/8" thick plastic tube.
The design of the Volant intake moves the filter away from the engine, lowering the intake temperature and then has a tube running from the intake box to the outside of the engine bay which is where it sucks the air from.
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