I wonder how hard it would b to build this... Seems legit when u read up on this thing on a vette...



Maybe make or buy this to make it similar

 

I don't see any benefit to trying to rig something up. The 2nd pic is the WMS air intake, which I have on my car. The WMS intake sits on a black plastic tray which does two things; 1) it creates a 'ram box' where air is brought in through the grille and 3 openings in the front of the box which is somewhat sealed against the hood insulator when the hood is down. 2) it protects against hot air from being brought in at the bottom of the intake filter. I took some adhesive backed heat shielding and trimmed it to fit the bottom of the WMS plastic tray to help even further.

As many of us are aware, a ton of air is brought in under the hoods of these cars. I don't think you need something special to bring the air in from underneath the car. You're creating a lot of extra work, then obstructing airflow to the radiator, and providing a pathway for the air to be warmed in while it's on it's way to the filter. The WMS design brings in a high volume of the coolest air and puts it directly to the filter. I'd stick with that, or get a blower if I truly wanted to 'ram' the air in.

 

Cool thanks for right up... I'm just bored and want to build something for the car... I never hear people talking about the intake you have... How would you rate it against the others? JLT, steeda,c&l .... Ect?

 

A magazine did a comparo on them a few years ago. They were all pretty similar. The WMS intake took 2nd place if I recall correctly, but it lost points due to the install being more complicated than the others. I went w/ the 95mm intake on mine, and I can only say that from my experience, it outperforms the other ones.

 

I've only seen it on pictures where do you get it from?

 

Does it work with the stock hood?

 

Yes I think it does

 

I've seen someone build an intake that went through the fenderwell and down to a fog light opening on an old 98 cobra. Don't know how good it really worked though.

 

That's how my nissan spec v ingen true cai worked....

 

Did it work good?

 

March performance made an intake with scoop that came down under the car, it came out of favor when it would pack uo with leaves and other crap from the road and guys where clogging the filters, also deep puddles became an issue. There is another on that brought the filter into the fender but more lower down into it, don't see it out anymore ( this was many years ago) that thing sucked water and also clogged alot.

The March filter setup mocked the stock air box setup but added the hose, most guys would take the hose off and just run the box with K&N. Well the rest of the crowd pretty much figured out if you pulled the silencer out and added the K&N you had the same thing, dyno it and figured out it was pretty much the best set up, cai

 

Works w/ stock hood, got it from Brenspeed over 5 years ago... not sure if they still carry it. Get the 95mm version if you can.

Edit: oh and yes, with that scoop design your filter will pick up leaves, etc, but not any significant amount of water. Water in your combustion chamber is a VERY bad thing, unless you're looking for a good excuse to buy a new motor. You don't have that worry w/ the WMS unless you're in several feet of water.

 

Yeah I meant deep water myself, what hydrolock is bad . I don't think they drew up that large amount( although they could) but the filters where getting damp.

Also a correction on my above post: guys figured out if they removed the silencer from the "stock" box and used the K&N drop in it was just like the march. this filter by march came out in the '80s.

 

The ingen cold air was sweet!!! On my Nissan when the variable valve timing kicked it the sound the intake made was incredible!! I had many muscle car guys love to go on rides w me due to the sound... I had my fox body and the Nissan as my daily and most of my friends were Camaro/mustang guys... I'll see if I can find an old video

 

Oh btw I've read up on this ram intake and from the sound of it, this thing makes solid power at speed... So it puts Down same dyno numbers as all the popular brands but really excels while in motion... And you can't dyno that... If I find a used one I'll pick it up... Then sell my jlt but I'm not going to just buy it new...

 

you call a cai a power mod. I'm not saying that a stock air box doesn't come with restriction but IMHO I don't call a cai a hp mod. there was an old ( from the early '00s) thread I'd have to try and dig up where a bunch of guys put on different cai on a stock GT at a dyno day, hp #'s where nothing to scream about. Please don't jump me not saying not to do it but we need to stop the myth of these things being a power mod. sound good yeah, look good yeah that is where I'll leave it.

 

Shoot I agree with you. A cai is for looks

 

I'm confused... So how come xyz brands show dyno sheets w power gain from just an intake? Is the tune really what's putting the power down?

 

I could go get my car dynoed on a 20° cooler day and show dyno improvements also

 

Ford's Paul Randle - and a dyno - disagrees