New Custom Intake Idea

[Spec-R]

OK here it goes. i kinda thought this up out of thin air. You know how there are a few peeps out there that have done the DIY short ram intake. using pvc and so on. well i was wondering, what if you have the first piece of pipinig, then put on a Y pipe. then you have the one end going to the left which would be the ram air. and the second opening would be pieped down to the front bumper or elsewhere for cold air. this way you have the response of the ram air, and the cool air as you move up the rpms. the only question i have is, does any of this make sence??? i mean would it work, and have any advantages??

[frapjap]

It *might*work, as long as you put the maf where it belongs because you wouldn't want two means of intake and only one registered. As far as how functional as it may be...its up to you to find out. Make this an experiment and post the results.

[Chingon]

i think it'd be best to combine the best of both, and just make a 3 in hole where the battery is, and have a cold-ram air. The main problem i see w/your idea is that you will have 2 pipes of different length and same diameter pulling the same amount of air a single pipe would give you, hurting air velocity a lot. In other words, for this to have some funcion behind it, you would have to reduce piping according to their lengths and air velocity. Not to mention that since you are combining cold air (from the cai) + hot air (from the ram), you get warm air Instead of just getting all cold air.

In other words, personally i think way too much work for less benefits than a cold-ram air.

others have tried to place an intercooler in btwn...but then again, you can only cool the air to the same temp. as the ambient temp. so although it's inventive and "logical", science doesn't back it up.

[tryiian]

So what this part is missing is a seperate throttle plate, that seals off the ram at a certain rpm when more than 50% throttle is given, perhaps. That`d be an expensive part. *shrug* so who wants to call all the big name companies and ask em if theyre interested?

[Chingon]

you see, it's jus too unpractical. By adding about 4-6 inches of piping, you can have a short-ram cai. Have the same throttle response of a short-ram, and dense air at all rpm.

[Spec-R]

yea, i thought about the whole shutting off the ram after a certain point too. becuase if not, i would be warm air, not cold. but yes too expensive. maybe i'll email injen or aem see what they think, u never know. thanks guys for your input.

[Bigrolla]

man just have the maf after the y. also would be pointless to have a valve to switch between them as there is no point not to have as much flow as possible.

[Dano]

have any of u guys ever seen the J's Racing intake the Honda guys use? if u haven't run a search and check it out "J's Racing intake" ... my buddy had the authentic c/f j's on his b16 hatch and my roommate has a knockoff version on his hatch we swapped.... thing actually works... we've tried numerous setups... something like that would be awesome!

-Dan