I've been thinking about doing a custom ramair setup for my car, my idea is to run the hoses so that they come out through where my head lamps but the only dilema is what to use for headlights once i take my factory ones out for the ramair set up? any ideas?
Are you planning to drive it on the street? Not having headlights is going to get you in trouble. Even if it's only driven in the day. If it's for a race car you can always just put sheet metal with a decal and duez fasteners. You know the valance has a lot room to mount inlets for a ram air setup.
If you need the headlights, one idea would be to mount them where the sport lamps are on the earlier cars. I'm not sure if the rectangular lamps are made with the turn signals in them like the round ones.
Relocate the Batt to the trunk and run large ducting to the rad support where the batt used to be and the same on the drivers side. Thats what I would do with my car if it didnt have the hood opened up. The rad support would give more air than my GT scoop does I'm sure. If I was going to race it I would do the rad support thing.
I'd go with what darrel said. I considered it, but decided I wanted the old school scoop look. I still haven't ruled it out as a future mod though.
I used to run a set up like this on a Ranchero i built years ago....It's from a '84 Mustang GT....Not exactly Ram Air but it does pick up cool air....To me, one of the coolest air cleaners Ford has done
My battery is relocated and I pick up "ram" air from the battery cooling vents. The air cleaner is completely boxed in around the vents and bolts to the battery tray with no permanent modification. You could use an LDO grill and take out the turn signals and use 70-72 non LDO turn signals that mount under the bumper but you could pick up a tremendous amount of air at the area behind the grill as was mentioned earlier. Personally, I wouldn't remove the headlamps. Be careful with the Mustang setup, because our cars don't use inner fenders to prevent the intake from filling up with road wash and rainwater from the tire well. If you install that set up you can use baffling to keep water out.
Maybe cut 2 round holes into the left and right side of the grill, glue in some plastic rings and hook your hoses up to them. It might just give the front of the car that dual headlight look. I thought about looking into doing this same thing for adding driving lights.
that may work. i would suspect that the ram air effect going on at the radiator support would give the best performance
I had a Mustang road racer years ago that i built a box that went through the firewall into the cowl vent....This is what the Nascar guy's do, pick up air at the base of the windshield
I was almost thinking that on some of the later grills that had lights in the grill you could remove the lights and run ducting from there.
you could just run them out to the grill and mount them behind the grill , painted black you would have a hard time seeing them , and air flow from there should be good..either way running the air feed from there would be a clean air supply as opposed to fender or cowl mount .. just my two cents.
NASCAR uses the cowl vent for cold air - not ram air. Cold air is a good thing and ram air can be but it can also upset the pressures in the carb and cause lean conditions unless it is done right.
