Using the base of the windshield is a great place to get engine air. If
you do use the fresh air inlet that was orginally intended for the
heater/AC circuit, remember that if the engine ever hiccups, it will be
drawn immediately into the passenger compartment. If I was biulding a race
car the heater/AC circuit would be gone anyway. I would reccomend that you
ditch the fresh air portion and seal the heater/AC holes. Only my opinion
though....
Something else to about those dryer hoses for fresh air, because of the
corrugations they flow much less than you would think. I would find smooth
inside hose if at all possible.
Nicholas
At 08:59 AM 3/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 Russ wrote:
>>O.K. Gents,
>>
>> I will be the first to admit that l am far from mechanically
>>inclined. I
>>currently have the FABM mod on my truck. However, l was thinking, if
>>you left
>>the factory setup like it was (just add a K&N filter to the stock
>>box), but
>>replaced the horn that ran to the fender with a flexible piece of
>>tubing (l
>>have no idea what kind, maybe dryer hose or something) and ran it
>>through the
>>"black mat material" on the front of the engine compartment right next
>>to the
>>radiator, wouldn't that work like a ram air system? It might not be a
>>huge
>>improvement, but every little bit helps. At least that way you would
>>be
>>getting a gulp of cold air. Let me know if anyone has already done
>>this, or
>>if anyone thinks this is the dumbest idea they have ever heard of.
>>
>This is not a dumb idea, in my opinion since I have been attempting the
>same thing. I got in touch with Sean Meldrum late last year to ask about
>a NASCAR type cowl induction for the DAK. This means no raised hood, but
>fresh air coming in at the base of the windshield into an enclosure
>around the aircleaner. I asked Sean if he knew of a way to do this as
>there was so little space available on the firewall of my '95. He agreed
>that this was a great idea and he was looking into the same thing
>himself. He too agreed that there was very little space on the firewall
>to accomplish this, however. He said that the factory had the right idea
>with the hose to the air cleaner but didn't go far enough. He said it
>would be better to have two hoses of at least a 3" diameter (though 4"
>would be better) to the air cleaner. He pointed me to Scott Miller's
>homepage (http://membes.tripod.com/~racetruck). Scott put an air inlet on
>the left side of the grill to match the one on the right and mated it to
>the air cleaner. Sean also clued me in to a device called the Ram Air
>Box. This is a twin snorkel device designed to fit around a K&N (or
>clone) FIPK using the K&N top and base with the free flowing air filter
>element inside. You can get their catalog by e-mail: ramairbx@wchat.on.ca
>I have been trying to obtain one of these things for over a month now
>through my local speed shop, but since Super Shops went belly up, he's
>been kinda swamped. He also tells me that he has a similar device by
>someone else. I'm going to look at it Saturday.
>Take a look at Scott's page. It's not hard to do what you are thinking.
>
>Richard Pyburn
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