Anyone know where i could find a ram air kit for my cougar? One of my friends said that he had seen a setup for the t birds but he cant remeber where.
I dont know of any.
why wouldnt the mac ram air kit work? im sure it would with a little modification if any. the only thing is...not to be a but why. generally speaking they dont do all that much. you have to be realy moving to gain anything. not much help at the track anyway.
im sure you could make one pretty easy enough?
Bottom half of the page in the link:
http://www.marchperf.com/pg29.html#93ramair
I have the kit that Paul posted the link for on my 5.0 Bird. Fits good but I had to make two modifications to fit it though. First I had to remove the air under the front bumper to fit the scoop on (you have a grill so cooling shouldn't be a problem). The second thing I had to do was drill some new holes in the scoop because the predrilled holes don't line up to the bottom of the bumper. Now for a seat of the pants change in performance? I don't notice a difference at lower speeds but I do notice a difference if I'm going over 45 mph and hit the gas to pass. At higher speeds when air is being forced into the intake (mabey 1-2 psi if it's lucky) the car seems to pass easier. Or mabey it's my imagination :hick: . Oh and I also have Stang headers, 2.25 real dual exhaust, HO upper & TB, and 3.73 gears and a traction lock which makes a much bigger improvement on performance.
It can help some, but it's not worth buying a premade kit, all you need is some dryer hose really you could even use the stock air box and just mount it to a scoop in front of the air dam, then run duct back up the the intake hose.
Even better would be a cone filter on the end of a longer hose, just make a box around it to build air pressure and mount it low.
Functional, I'm sure. But then you'd have dryer hose under your hood. :yuck:
Yeah, so...I'm from turboford...
:wtf: .............................. okaay
(pay me no mind. I'm wearing my asshole shoes today)
I think ill go with the kit im planning on a functional turbocoupe hood setup. And thanks for the link Paul.
No prob......Funtional ram air TC hood on a 5.0? Interesting.....tell me more. I already got the hood ;)
why hasnt anybody adapted a cirvinies ram air hood kit (duct work & air box) to fit a tc hood? i'd do it but i dont know where to get fiberglass... or anything like it. if somebody will help me out, i'll document it and take pictures for the site.
You can get fibreglass at Canadian Tire................ oh. sorry.
:canada: :tg:
A ram-air setup for a n/a 3.8 or 5.0 isn't going to add much power. Maybe 5-10hp, and only on a dyno test or at the track. On the street the net result would be negligible. The reason the ram-air setup worked on the Turbo Coupe was due to the intercooler, cooling the air charge before going into the intake. That is a turbo's best friend right there. My brother owns a '97 WS6 Ram-Air Trans Am...trust me, upper rpm's and dyno testing are the only ways you can feel the ram air effect. But getting cooler air into the intake is always a good thing.
hey hey...not the ram air kit you were thinking about but very sweet none the less....
http://www.stangnet.com/reviews/banshee/page3.html (http://"http://www.stangnet.com/reviews/banshee/page3.html")
Who needs a kit throw a highrise on it with a scoop instant ram air and more torque to boot :giggle:
Would that mount to our cars easily, or would there bee other clearance issues due to it being a different hood?
from what it looks like it would work fine. the only thing i can think of is maybe the structural ribs in the tbird hood might be in a different spot.
edit...
from what it looks like though it will be tough to find and expensive too boot. maybe something from a mach 1 could be adapted...
I don't think using the TC hood will do you any good. I'll see if i can't find the tread on turboford or nato that I'm thinking of. It said at speeds above 45mph or so, the scoops do little to nothing as far as catching air.
Nick
the scoops pick up very little air compared to a front mounted opening.
I have been experimenting with air intake options on my 5.0 and found it runs better with the piping shorter then it does long and in the fender[air filter inside fender]
Ive been wanting one of those march ram air kits for a long time just to cheap to buy one:)