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12-31-2009, 03:38 AM | #1 |
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Cold air intake to carby
I am wondering whether there will be an advantage to connect the air filter snout to a fixture on the front radiator support to stream cold air to the carby.
Has anybody done this in the hotter climate areas and seen a benefit?
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12-31-2009, 05:17 AM | #2 |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
there are some people here who have that set up. some have it so that it is a dual feed because there is another opening on the driver side. you can fab one up with two stock filter housing or buy one in the after market. I don't think in warmer climates you will be getting colder air into the carb. I think it has more to do with denseness of air. which has a lot to do with why ram air and the like are popular. it sure does look cool set up with two lines. .... side question, what is a "Tray"?
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12-31-2009, 05:49 AM | #3 |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
We have utes which generally are derived from a sedan bodied car. To certain extent the Japs have created Cab chassis apon which is built either a pressed 'ute' body or an aluminium or steel fabricated flat tray, sometimes with drop sides.
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12-31-2009, 06:39 AM | #4 |
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So you have a 77 Chevy flat bed with drop down sides? Did I read you right? Have You put up pics of your rigs?
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12-31-2009, 08:15 AM | #5 |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Thats right.
I shall do the photos when I get back to Melbourne, I am in Sydney for a few days.
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12-31-2009, 03:29 PM | #6 |
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Awesome! Have a safe new years buddy!
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
So then I have a US custom made "tray"?
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Don't know if it helped but this is what i did on my 5.3
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01-02-2010, 12:39 AM | #9 |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Actually yes I have, but not on a Chevy, on my old Mopar cop car. Don't bash me for posting a Mopar pic either...
I've noticed a small difference on the interstate, none really driving around town.
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Looks good.
Bow tie what sort of difference did you notice? Better fuel econmy?
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Biggest advantage to ANY cold air system, even a stock one snout one, is your engine gets cooler air instead of the hot air out of the radiator and generally off the engine. really don't even have to ram-air it to get some improvement. the improvements will be more noticable in the summer though.
I had the stock setup on my old 77 back when I was like 16 and i thought it looked crappy so i went and bought one of those slick edelbrock chrome 14" air cleaners. well it took about 3 tanks of gas to figure out my mileage went down, so i put the old stock setup back on it and then i had more cigarette and gas money...lol |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Thanks, most of what I noticed is crisper throttle response once at highway speeds, better/smoother acceleration and runs a little better/smoother on the highway. Again it's not like it's night and day difference, I can tell because I drive it so often. It would need alot more done to the engne to really need the air induction, but I had a spare Saturday and was bored..... Haven't really checked MPG gains, speedo cable needs to be replaced, but I use it for a winter beater and drive the same mileage everyday, so I would guess somewhere between 18-20 mpg which is close to what I was getting when the speedo still worked and I could reference it.
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Also another difference is the location of the filter element. Sitting on top of the engine leads to a natural "heater" of sorts for the air stream.
Having it near the fender reduces heat, as the newer engines adopted this setup. The other advantage of the air piping, is the "forced induction" at higher speeds. Cooler air is being "forced" into the engine by the natural driving rather than having the engine suck up the neutral or hot air blowing around randomly in the engine compartment. |
01-02-2010, 09:39 PM | #15 |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
don't know if you saw mine or not on another post day or 2 ago .
seemed to be a very slight gain in warmer weather , but no noticeable difference in colder weather , especially now in this part of the country 19 degrees now. In fact iHAVE DEVELOPED an off idle stumble when its cold out . Ramair recommends you use your standard air filter when it gets in the 30's . My experience says they are right . |
01-03-2010, 03:38 AM | #16 |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
We have between 80 -115 degrees in Melbourne at the monet. 19 would be "cut your wrist' type weather over here.
We would not know how to cope. Thanks for the heads up also about shifting the aircleaner, that should be easy to achieve, regards
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01-04-2010, 04:59 AM | #18 |
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Where do the double entry air cleaner assemblies come from please ?
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01-04-2010, 10:52 AM | #19 |
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
I've been running an open element on my TBI all year. Now that it is cold here in Connecticut (35 or bellow), I notice the open element actually works awesome. In the summer time, I never really noticed a power increase, probably because of the hotter air. But I think in this case, it's quantity over quality. I will have to try a stock element and two intake hoses this summer.
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Re: Cold air intake to carby
Fuel injection motors benefit more from the cold ram air intake.
We know intercoolers work. We know blowers, turbos and superchargers work. So think of the setup as a prehistoric forced induction air system. I'm curious to know how much pressure is applied to the filter when a truck is moving 70 MPH. On my 81-82 modified bumper, the area for each intake is ~3.5"X9" or 31.5 sq/inches. Multiply by two = 63" sq/inches of area to push air into the carb. |
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