info for functional hood scoops

[dgo]

I am looking for info on how to make the 2003 sc/t hood actually funtional, I would like to incorporate a new ram air duck into the orignal ram air housing, or if I can pipe it from the hood scoops to the air box , any ideas?
Thanks from the DGO in T.O:agree:

[icrowley]

well I haven't seen what the underside of the hood looks like, but I would think you might get either a shop, or if you know how, get premolded plastic and have it run back fwd under the hood and meet into the top of the ram air box, which you'd have to remove or cut. Then again, like I said I really don't know, these are just off the top of my head, out of my ass ideas. Let me know if these are any help, cause I've been waiting to hear how these hoods would fullfill they're promise of becoming functional.

[amidemon]

Should there be any concern about water getting into the intake with a functional full-time ram air hood? On the old GTO's (68/9) the ram air option used vaccum to open and close it. You weren't supposed to leave it open when driving in the rain.

Brian

[USMCspy]

I would just use a CAI and have the scoops for engine bay cooling. With the way the engine sits in the car it would work better that way. if you can find a 91 Z24 caviler and look at the caul induction on it you might get some ideas, maybe even use part of it's intake (since it was a 3100). Or an aftermarket for it.

I haven't looked into it, I made my CAI functionally force fed, but I had to take out the windshield washer res. I'm still trying to find an generic aftermarket one I can install somewhere else.

[Old Guy]

Originally posted by USMCspy
I would just use a CAI and have the scoops for engine bay cooling.

I've said the same thing quite a few times. There isn't a straight shot to the CAI from the hood so using the scoops for "forced induction" is pretty futile.

Actually Ram Air works the best when the source is under the front bumper.......the air will flow right over the scoops on the hood.

Read this article http://www.karlsnet.com/mopar/ramair.shtml and do a search on the site for Ram Air. It's been discussed to the point of nausea. :)

[99SEDude]

Is that guy with the Shadow for real? I mean, there could be a way then to route the CAI through the front. I'm not sure if it would be possible, but if you remove the left fog light and then route the CAI so it sucks air from that opening, wouldn't that get pretty much the same results as the Shadow did?

[Old Guy]

I don't know........I do know that when I used the fog lite for an opening it didn't do much :(

[99SEDude]

Did you actually route the CAI opening to the fog light opening? That's what I'm talking about.

[Old Guy]

Yep I did.......made no difference at all......

[99GrandAMSE]

... if I could find the right components (or make them), I'd have a setup like the 69/70 vintage Olds 442 where the intakes were long and norraw right under the front bumpers :)