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56D500boy
Posted 2018-04-19 8:13 PM (#561932 - in reply to #561907)
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57burb - 2018-04-19 4:14 PM

It's starting to look like something! Thanks for the (detailed ) updates.


Thanks. It's going to look pretty okay after the next and hopefully last coat of resin and a then some sanding and polishing.

But I need to get going on the modified air cleaner to make it all work.

I am in the process of selling one of my cars (93 Audi S4 sedan) and I am getting a bit distracted.

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56D500boy
Posted 2018-05-11 11:11 PM (#563204 - in reply to #561932)
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56D500boy - 2018-04-19 8:13 PM
I am in the process of selling one of my cars (93 Audi S4 sedan) and I am getting a bit distracted.
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Okay. My 350 hp 1993 Audi S4 quattro sedan (probably capable of 160 mph because they could do 150 mph with the factory 227 hp)that I had for 2 months short of 20 years and put a lot of blood sweat and $$$ into sold. Bye.

Back to the 56 Dodge.

Been working on the carpet install which has meant working on the C and B pillar covers so I can hold the new windlace in place. Today while the new paint on the B-pillar covers was drying, I started to play with the air scoop.

Dug into the foam core and extracted about 85% of it. Then I trial fitted it again into the space between the rad support and the right grill bar. Fits better than I remembered. Plus a piece of 4" PVC fits perfectly into the remaining 1/2" of the 4" coupling that I left in the scoop. I need to cut that piece of 4" PVC shorter and paint it. I also need to totally remove the foam core (somehow), add a final coat of resin on the outside and finalize the 2 or 3 options that I have for an anti-squirrel grill in the front of the scoop.

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Powerflite
Posted 2018-05-12 1:24 AM (#563215 - in reply to #532535)
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Now you need to paint the inside of it black to make it less visible from outside the car.
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56D500boy
Posted 2018-05-12 1:39 AM (#563217 - in reply to #563215)
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Powerflite - 2018-05-12 1:24 AM

Now you need to paint the inside of it black to make it less visible from outside the car.


Absolutely. That was always part of "the Plan". Flat black yet. However, I can't do that until I get rid of all the white polystyrene beads. I've only used a 1" putty knife so far but will be getting out the big guns in the next few days. There is a possibility of Acetone being used.

We'll see.

I will post a photo when it is done, i.e. another coat of resin on the carbon fibre and maybe on the inside too.



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56D500boy
Posted 2018-05-26 1:45 PM (#564041 - in reply to #563217)
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Previously I had found this advertisement from the August 1956 issue of Car Life:



Yesterday I bought a May 1956 Car Life magazine and there was an article about how to achieve 25 mpg and it featured the same cold air induction system. I see they definitely had a flapper/butterfly in the system.





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1960fury
Posted 2018-05-27 7:42 AM (#564064 - in reply to #532535)
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Some of the old ads in the magazine are rubbish, this is not. Thanks for sharing.
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56D500boy
Posted 2018-06-06 4:10 PM (#564677 - in reply to #564064)
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After recently finishing (98%) the conversion of an OE oil bath air cleaner to paper, I got back to this project. I've painted the modified Golden Lion filter with black crinkle paint (still drying - photos to come) and cleaning out the inside of the air scoop.

When I did the scoop plug, I should have covered the form with clear packing tape because the fiberglass resin did not stick to it and the resulting surface was shiny and smooth. But I didn't. So I have to deal with the resin getting in to the dry wall mud that I had applied in some areas as well as into the beaded part of the foam in other places. It was a bit of nightmare.

In the end after trying a bunch of mechanical means, scrapers, wire wheels, brushes, etc. what worked was my 20 year old Dremel and a die-grinder bit on medium speed, followed by wet sanding in our laundry sink with 220 grit paper. Then I dried it and painted it with a semi-gloss black paint. Not sure if I will add a coat of resin over that or not. Probably not. Outside, yes. Inside, no.

I tried the painted scoop in its location behind the right grill bar and it is very much hidden/stealth. Perfect.

Needs some final sanding/trimming on the inlet edge. I've added some JB Weld at the outlet end where the white PVC ring is "attached" to the fiberglass shell.

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56D500boy
Posted 2018-06-06 9:17 PM (#564690 - in reply to #564677)
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Applied the "last" coat of resin on the outside of the air scoop this afternoon. While it was drying/curing, I cut the white PVC coupler down to a size that works as a spacer that leaves me about 3/8" between the bottom of the air cleaner and the top of the carburetor choke.

Trialled the modified Golden Lion air cleaner on the carb and discovered that I need a longer carb/air cleaner rod. Off to RONA (now owned by Lowes) to buy a stick of 1/4" x 20 thread ready rod. While I was there, I also picked up a 4" galvanized heating duct damper to put somewhere between the scoop and the air cleaner and a length of flexible dryer duct (the good kind).

When I got back, I cut an appropriate length of ready rod and mounted the air cleaner. Then I tried the flexible duct over the air cleaner snorkel. Oops. Needs a spacer/adapter. No problem. I had a black ABS reducer that was perfect size to fit over the snorkel and inside the flexi duct. (Luck or skill ?? LOL. LUCK). So I cut an adapter ring and gave it a light sanding. It will need more to fully fit over the snorkel. Fine for now.

I put the adapter ring on the end of the snorkel and tried the duct. Hmm....Snorkel is a bit long. *IF* I want to include the damper in series between the scoop and the air cleaner, the snorkel is going to have to be about 3" or more shorter so the bend in the flexiduct isn't crazy. I can figure that out tomorrow. For today, I pushed the flexiduct further over the snorkel to see if there was some improvement. Some but it's going to need a hack saw on the snorkel.

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56D500boy
Posted 2018-06-06 11:21 PM (#564695 - in reply to #564690)
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After reviewing my photos, I find that 4" ducting looks ridiculous. Time to rethink and work with 3" ducting instead. Somehow.

AFTER reviewing my original plans, I see that I *WAS* going to use 3" ducting. Not sure when I let it morph to 4". No biggy. Back to Plan A = 3 inch.



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Posted 2018-06-07 8:13 PM (#564762 - in reply to #564695)
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56D500boy - 2018-06-06 11:21 PM
After reviewing my photos, I find that 4" ducting looks ridiculous. Time to rethink and work with 3" ducting instead. Somehow.
AFTER reviewing my original plans, I see that I *WAS* going to use 3" ducting. Not sure when I let it morph to 4". No biggy. Back to Plan A = 3 inch.


3" was the way to go.

I stopped at RONA (now owned by Lowes) and went through their plumbing and heating section looking for bits that I could cobble together to use 3" flexible hose. Turned out better than I expected.

As per the photo(s) below, I bought 3" semi-rigid aluminum ducting, a 3" galvanized round connector union, a 3" PVC to ABS adapter (SOC x SP) and a 4" x 3" PVC to ABS reducing adapter. The 3" galvanized union fits inside the flexible ducting and the flexible ducting fits inside the air cleaner snorkel. The only game was to cut down the PVC and ABS bits so they were shorted (long enough to get glued together but not much more). I still need to work on that 3" PVC to ABS adapter that the 3" galvanized union slips into. It could be shorter.

IF I am going to have a damper I will have to have it *IN* the snorkel. I need to work on that more.

For now, here are some photos of how it went together today (NOTE: 1. Yes, I need to replace my hood to rad support gasket 2. The white PVC spool piece that you can see in the last two photos will get painted semi-gloss or flat black and it will disappear):





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56D500boy
Posted 2019-07-21 12:59 PM (#585051 - in reply to #564762)
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Ran the converted OE air cleaner(with stacked filters) all winter and it was fine. On Friday, I sanded and recoated the carbon fibre "Ram Air" air scoop. Yesterday, after going for a nice run in the Dodge, I removed the converted air cleaner and re-installed the "Ram Air" air filter system. I was surprised: 1) the ram air was quieter (??) - the opposite of what I thought before, and 2) the engine didn't seem to run as well (??). I might have to install a flow limiting baffle in the ram air system after all.

From this:



Back to this (old photo) (except with a much smoother/shinier scoop):



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mikes2nd
Posted 2019-07-21 2:26 PM (#585054 - in reply to #532535)
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you are probably running lean, that carb isn't able to handle all the air your throwing at it, you can richen it up and it should help, your going to eat more gas but you should then start to see performance gains.

Don't run lean man... You'll destroy it. Your bringing in alot of air i would expect. Pull the pipe how does the car run? with just the air cleaner open to the engine bay?

https://www.enginelabs.com/engine-tech/engine/high-speed-engine-tuni...

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1960fury
Posted 2019-07-21 3:02 PM (#585055 - in reply to #585054)
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mikes2nd - 2019-07-21 2:26 PM

you are probably running lean, that carb isn't able to handle all the air your throwing at it, you can richen it up and it should help, your going to eat more gas



Physically not possible. Cooler air makes an engine run more efficient, that is the performance gain, it is free, after you adjusted the idle/jetting for the cooler air (leaner mixture). At idle (?), if really a lean condition is the cause (?), once you adjusted the mixture it will idle faster/smoother and you can back off the curb idle screw. Same for jetting, you need less throttle opening for the same amount of power.
I installed several cold/ram air systems, all engines responded with a smoother idle in hot weather and yes, the mixture needs to be adjusted, especially for driving in cold weather.
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Posted 2019-07-21 9:04 PM (#585065 - in reply to #532535)
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well it would only happen at higher speeds,of course cooler is better but its absolutely possible. even the article says so and it makes sense...

your saying he is running richer? he didn't say if it was an idle issue or when he is at high speed or accelerating. well need to know if its all the time or when its happening.



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Posted 2019-07-22 7:47 AM (#585077 - in reply to #585065)
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mikes2nd - 2019-07-21 9:04 PM

well it would only happen at higher speeds,of course cooler is better but its absolutely possible. even the article says so and it makes sense...

your saying he is running richer? he didn't say if it was an idle issue or when he is at high speed or accelerating. well need to know if its all the time or when its happening.



What would happen only at higher speeds? With cooler, denser air an engine is always running more efficient. Where did you read I was saying he is running richer? No, colder air will of course lean out the mixture.
Yes, he didn't say if it is the idle or main circuit, that is why I added the question mark, but a lean condition can of course happen at any engine speed. I was just stating physical facts.

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Posted 2020-02-05 3:08 AM (#593820 - in reply to #532535)
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Dave, any update on this? Steve.
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Posted 2020-02-05 11:14 AM (#593833 - in reply to #593820)
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60 Imp - 2020-02-05 12:08 AM
Dave, any update on this? Steve.


Not really. I am running the OE look D500 red "oil bath" (with the paper filter conversion) again for the winter. I did ad a "315 Hemi Head" sticker that I made for the chrome air cleaner to the black "Ram Air" air cleaner at some point but that is about all. I am still thinking about a cable-controlled baffle in the intake pipe/hose (or the snorkle) to limit the "Ram Air" air to some extent.

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Posted 2020-02-05 2:48 PM (#593845 - in reply to #593833)
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56D500boy - 2020-02-05 11:14 AM

I am still thinking about a cable-controlled baffle in the intake pipe/hose (or the snorkle) to limit the "Ram Air" air to some extent.

:)


Why? You ain't gonna have a big ram-effect anyway.
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Posted 2020-03-24 12:46 PM (#595966 - in reply to #585051)
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I forgot that sometime ago I had found photos to the 53 Dodge "air scoop". I don't think that I had posted them up. (Until now)

So here they are, starting with the original brochure/advert showing the "Jet Air-flow hood" scoop. As shown in the photos, the scoop doesn't actually deliver cold air "directly to the carburetor". More like "to the vicinity of the air cleaner that sits on the carburetor"



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Posted 2020-03-26 2:24 PM (#596068 - in reply to #585051)
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"Ran the converted OE air cleaner(with stacked filters) all winter and it was fine. On Friday, I sanded and recoated the carbon fibre "Ram Air" air scoop. Yesterday, after going for a nice run in the Dodge, I removed the converted air cleaner and re-installed the "Ram Air" air filter system. I was surprised: 1) the ram air was quieter (??) - the opposite of what I thought before, and 2) the engine didn't seem to run as well (??). I might have to install a flow limiting baffle in the ram air system after all. :("


First, I'm not at all surprised that your perception is a quieter intake with the ram air set-up. Your factory (red) filter has an exposed element and is essentially an open element filter like most aftermarket units. Yes the housing provides some muffling of the intake noise, but not much. In addition that noise is generated close to you - under the hood, next to the firewall, near the HVAC system inlets and housing, etcetera.

The ram air system, on the other hand, is a fully enclosed air filter housing, with a sealed duct leading to an area about as far away from you (the driver) as possible. I'm sure the intake noise at the front of the car is significant - but being ahead of the radiator support, facing away from you, and low to the ground, you won't ever hear it.

Just for fun you should put a camera on the ground and do a couple of wide open throttle drive-by's with both air cleaner set-ups installed . . .

Now, as to your perception of the engine not running as well . . .

I can see a couple of possible explanations right off the bat, and have a couple of ideas that may require some thought.

First, lets address the things that would be fairly obvious. Chief among those is the air cleaner assembly itself. Based on what I can see, and my recollection of what you put together, the air filter housing you are using with the ram air has a completely different profile at the base of the carburetor. Many people don't understand this, but the shape of the air cleaner base is extremely important to effective fuel metering because it directly affects the airflow into the carb throat - the area where the air bleeds and emulsion tubes take their reference from. Anything that changes the airflow at this critical point in the carburetor will have a significant, and often detrimental effect on fuel metering. There have been plenty of articles written over the years demonstrating this and backing it up with dyno and flow bench testing.

Second, again related to your change in air cleaner housing, is the change in inlet air temperature. Where I live carb icing isn't much of an issue in July, but up your way I would guess it may be possible. Cooler outside air will also be more humid, and as that air passes through the venturi of the carb it accelerates and the pressure drops - also causing a drop in temperature. That drop in temperature along with the pressure drop causes humidity to condense, which then tries to evaporate, further cooling the metal of the carb body. This constant ongoing process can and will reduce the temperature of the carb throat to the point that condensing humidity begins to freeze - obstructing the aforementioned air bleeds and emulsion tubes, again to the detriment of fuel metering. While you might think this is unlikely, it is possible depending on the specifics of weather and your altered system. Because this symptom can vanish once the airflow is reduced it can be very difficult to detect by stopping the car and raising the hood.

And my final thought has to do with the overall effect of a sealed intake tract on a carbureted vehicle. Modern cars with port type fuel injection rely almost exclusively on this type of intake system, and can do so because fuel metering is almost completely independent from the physics of inlet airflow. Air intake is measured, along with other important factors such as load, throttle position, etcetera, and fuel injection quantity and timing is determined based on a programmed map, and then executed. On a carbureted engine, however, intake dynamics have a substantial effect of fuel metering (as described above). In the 60's this type of sealed cold air intake was a popular upgrade, and many were manufactured and sold with advertising like what you have referenced. However as you have experienced, the results were not always as expected, or claimed in the advertising. While the theory is sound - cooler air is denser air, denser air makes more power, ram air or air under pressure is denser and makes more power - the actual practical application is far more complex. Turbulence, inconsistent pressures and temperatures, varying humidity - all of these created an almost impossible tuning situation for anyone using true ram air intakes. Yes, racers did find it to be an effective tool, but in most cases those engines are tuned to run well within a very narrow powerband, greatly simplifying the necessary trial and error tuning of the intake and fuel metering.

For practical road use simply look the vehicle manufacturers. Hood scoops, ram air, fresh air - there were as many names as there were designs. But they all have key elements in common. All of these systems had some method of draining unwanted water from the intake system - usually baffles and drain holes within the fresh air plenums. These are still used today. Most also had some sort of manual cable or vacuum operated baffle to allow for underhood air to enter the system during engine warm up, primarily to prevent carb icing. (This is less of an issue today, but still occurs in some applications - hence the use of heated throttle bodies). Most importantly, however, is that every one of these factory "ram air" systems had a method to bleed off excessive pressure in the air intake system. How excessive? Lets just say any. For example the famed Chrysler hood mounted air boxes on the B-body cars were equipped with slots on the side covered with rubber flaps - flaps which would open at the slightest pressure above ambient. Ford, GM, and AMC systems all had similar ways to prevent pressure from actually building up in their "forced air" inlet systems. Why? Because with carburetor(s) the task of tuning to all possible variations of throttle position, load, inlet pressure, and temperature would be impossible. The mechanical carburetor simply cannot perform that degree of metering. Hell - a carb can't even compensate for altitude - how do you expect it to adjust for a road speed related change in intake pressure?

So the truth is that the manufacturers bowed to the popularity of "ram air" but never actually incorporated it. Instead they built functional and useable (and fun) cold air intake systems.

I suspect that if you hybridized your air filter housing to incorporate a properly shaped based, especially around the carb throats, installed a baffle at the end of the intake tube inside the air filter housing to distribute the airflow around the filer rather than directly into it, incorporated a movable baffle that not only closed the cold air inlet, but opened the intake to the area inside the engine compartment (preferably over one of the exhaust manifolds), and most importantly opened holes in the back or base of the air filer housing that would allow air coming into the housing to pass through, your performance issues would largely be eliminated. A little richening of the idle mixture, and possibly a minor change in jetting, would take advantage of the now available cooler air.

By no accident the set-up you would end up with would be very similar to that used on most cars in the mid to late 80's, right at the end of the carburetor era.


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Posted 2020-03-26 4:08 PM (#596076 - in reply to #596068)
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LostDeere59 - 2020-03-26 2:24 PM

Ford, GM, and AMC systems all had similar ways to prevent pressure from actually building up in their "forced air" inlet systems. Why? Because with carburetor(s) the task of tuning to all possible variations of throttle position, load, inlet pressure, and temperature would be impossible. The mechanical carburetor simply cannot perform that degree of metering. Hell - a carb can't even compensate for altitude - how do you expect it to adjust for a road speed related change in intake pressure?
Gregg


Well, it works for carbureted motorcycles for decades with a big, measurable power gain and it works for me for almost 30 years,
except when its really cold, I disconnect the tubes.
I couldn't wish for a better running car, and after about 170k miles with it, the engine still runs perfect at @330K miles with
a top speed of above 140 mph (conservative statement to avoid the usual comments), no malfunction or problems whatsoever,
except for a blown out a.c. housing seal (before I glued it to the hsg) at high speed, that made me feel the power loss without ram air.

Furthermore, blow thru (not draw thru) turbos/superchargers with carbs, that work at a MUCH higher pressure than a ram air
(don't know what they do with the power valves, there are special blow-thru carbs, but this is not a problem with r.a.), have been successfully used for over half a century.


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Posted 2020-03-27 11:39 AM (#596108 - in reply to #532535)
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uh oh Sidds gonna call you a liberal Gregg...

I certainly like the experiment. I was joking when i said he would blow his engine, but i wasn't when i said it will change things, depending on speed it could run leaner.. i put the link to the extreme... Gregg your a more patient man than I...


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Posted 2020-03-27 11:59 AM (#596109 - in reply to #532535)
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I'll throw my theory to the wind here. You've added quite a bit of turbulence to your intake stream. It takes pressure to overcome the negative effects of that turbulence. That means that there is a minimum speed at which you break even with this setup. To get any gain, you have to go faster than that. I suspect that you don't really see that benefit driving stop light to stop light, and it wouldn't surprise me that you would see a decline in performance in that range. To get the benefit from this you would need to run near freeway speeds.
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Posted 2020-03-27 1:56 PM (#596114 - in reply to #596109)
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Okay. I will accept that it is possible that the air-fuel ration could be wrong (lean) if I drive the car "fast" (how fast? I don't know (I've only had it to 75 mph (one time) (on a "closed circuit, private track") (Nyuk, Nyuk))). O realize that it is not a modern fuel injection system with an air-flow meter and an O2 sensor feed back loop and a computer with a "map" inside to adjust fueling to meet the air flow and O2 sensor inputs.

I won't buy a turbulence issue. The run from the scoop to the air cleaner snorkle is all smooth long radius bends. The original air distribution baffle is still in the air cleaner so the air gets distributed around the circumference of the filter and the WIX filter element will straighten out the flow if there is any turbulence. Down into the carb is stock big block air cleaner (with about a 1" high spacer).









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Posted 2020-04-01 6:15 AM (#596323 - in reply to #564690)
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If you every want to change to black tubing; CEET16 is 4'' black aero-ducting that can handle the heat. http://aircraftproducts.wicksaircraft.com/viewitems/air-supplies/ae... Marc.
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Posted 2020-04-01 11:05 AM (#596328 - in reply to #593833)
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56D500boy - 2020-02-05 9:14 AM I am still thinking about a cable-controlled baffle in the intake pipe/hose (or the snorkel) to limit the "Ram Air" air to some extent. :)

That was from a older post.

I was going to mention, but not sure if it mattered at the time, that when taking the 318 fuel injected engine out of a Dakota that is now in my '56, the Dakota originally (because of the fuel injection) had a OEM cold air duct from the front rad support to the air cleaner.

The critical item (to me) was that the air intake opening had an angled baffle from the factor install 1/3 across the intake opening. Probably not relevant information for carb equipped cars but as I am going to use a twin cold air aftermarket ducts on my '56 that ... if Dodge used a baffle on the Dakota ... than so should I on my '56.

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Posted 2020-04-01 12:15 PM (#596333 - in reply to #532535)
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The paper air filter surrounding the carb inlet is going to disrupt most of the "ram effect" (inertia of the incoming column of air) that the inlet tube could, in theory, deliver. If sealed properly, it will deliver ambient air and that can lead to a possible performance improvement if the a/f ratio is tuned to match.

And that is a key reason OEMs only routed ambient air to carburetors on the high-perf models; ambient air can easily have a 100-degree swing in certain areas. That guarantees the car will perform poorly when the air density is higher or lower than what the car was tuned for. So these engines were tuned to ingest hot engine compartment air. It is less optimal for maximum horsepower but the car will run much more consistently.

Just my .02, I don't want to fight anyone over it.
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Posted 2020-04-01 4:12 PM (#596340 - in reply to #596323)
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mstrug - 2020-04-01 3:15 AM
If you every want to change to black tubing; CEET16 is 4'' black aero-ducting that can handle the heat. http://aircraftproducts.wicksaircraft.com/viewitems/air-supplies/ae... Marc.


Thanks for the heads up on the black ducting. I know that is is/was used by other factory systems, like this Olds 442 and somebody's 68 Fury III with a 360:



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Posted 2020-04-02 4:37 PM (#596373 - in reply to #596340)
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Turns out that 1952 Desoto with the new 276.1 cu in Firedome V8 also had some kind of "Air-Vent" hood "scoop":



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Posted 2020-04-25 11:58 AM (#597324 - in reply to #595966)
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I hesitate to post this (please don't turn this into another sh*tsstorm) *BUT* to finalize how Dodge imagined the air was getting from the functional (??) hood scoop (fresh air inlet) to the engine bay, there was apparently,

a) a dip in the rad support and
b) somebody with a factory hammer the banged down the top of the top rad tank to let the air pass towards the air cleaner.

This was shown in a 1954 Coronet Suburban (hemi with overdrive - nice) as shown below:





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Posted 2021-03-23 9:27 PM (#610296 - in reply to #597324)
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Found this today. Huh...



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Posted 2024-02-08 2:00 PM (#633698 - in reply to #610296)
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I wonder whether this (on somebody's 68 Fury III with a 360):



is this Spectrum SPE-733 (or - 732) from Summit Racing:

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Posted 2024-02-08 8:52 PM (#633701 - in reply to #596109)
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Powerflite - 2020-03-27 11:59 AM

I'll throw my theory to the wind here. You've added quite a bit of turbulence to your intake stream. It takes pressure to overcome the negative effects of that turbulence. That means that there is a minimum speed at which you break even with this setup. To get any gain, you have to go faster than that. I suspect that you don't really see that benefit driving stop light to stop light, and it wouldn't surprise me that you would see a decline in performance in that range. To get the benefit from this you would need to run near freeway speeds.


I know its 4 yo post. The air filter won't let any turbolences pass thru. even if there are turbolences, it will never restrict the openig in the air cleaner hsg, if that was meant. Cooler, denser air makes more power, so you have a power gain from idle to top speed. That is why every new car has a cold air inlet. Ford USA started using it in the 50s. It will make an engine run more efficient and cleaner. Check my "valve" thread to see, how clean my pistons and valves looked after 63 years and 350 000 miles of almost daily use.
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