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Felt like the AEM intake needed more air and i did have a setup close to this on my 91 300zx. The AEM air intake is basically in a plastic box where they want you to install it. The car does feel stronger being up front like the ingen intake. Here are a few pics. This is a rough draft, if i like it i will go back and improve the looks more.

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Aceman

 

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Isn't that really more COLD air than RAM air?

 

It is alot more cold air, but do you see the scoop that i placed around the air intake to force more air into the intake.

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Aceman

 

now does that yield any performance gains?

 

for my first post sorry to say this... but it more looks like your "scoop" is blocking air from hitting the intake!

if the scoop was behind and around it and not in the front.. channeling all the air that was coming head on to the filter that misses it and goes to the back then it may do something...

or what evva...

 

I agree with Konverter, it's a deflector not a scoop. it's not facing out of the front of the car.

 

its got to be like this....

the o will represent the air filter and the \ / wil represent how what you made should be...

above the \ / is the opening of the front bumper....

\o/ <--- like that with a closed back.. then you will get the effect your looking for...

what you are doing now is keeping air from getting into the filter!

 

So what you are saying is to cut the area i have circled in white??.....the reason i left it like that was because of rain. The scoop does force more air in, you would have to see it up close. Pics dont give it justice.

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Aceman

 

I missed the "scoop". I suppose that it is shoveling SOME air into the filter. It seems like you'd almost need to turn the filter 90 degrees toward the front of the car to get a gust of air blowing into it though.

 

I did something like this to my old Civic... felt like an accomplishment at the time, i.e., the DIY aftermarket upgrade.

 

I just wanted to get some feed back, this is not the finished product. So far i put $20 into this. Just need to work on the scoop part some more. But tonight i went for a drive in the car, and boy can i feel a difference. With the air intake up front the car just pulls alot harder. Me likes ....The place where the intake was before, it was not getting any cold are. Big change with it up front and in the air's path. Any ideas on the scoop would be appriciated.

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Aceman

 

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hell, looks cool to me, nice.

seems like the air has a long way to travel from the filter to the engine, but still looks like a good idea.

 

you may have the scoop there.. but you are still blocking the whole front side of the air filter...

if the filter was where the plastic part of the AEM logo is on the filter that would be another story... but half of the air hitting the intake where it normally would is being pushed away now...

now what would be cool / better IMO would be to make a simmilar thing with NO FILTER going into the openeing on the stock intake box... THAT would be RAM AIR

 

Not flaming you... Just laughing what people do to get 1-4 hp gains which in reality its like if your lucky .1 off the 1/4 mile... Hey, if you like it that's all that matters.

 

The laundry dryer flexible pipe probably doesn't transfer air to the engine very effeciently. There's got to be a lot of "wind resistance" in there. A smoother "pipe" would probably be better.

 

I agree, im just not sure what else to use. Need something 2 1/2 inches thick. I looked all through home depot and this was the best i could find. How do you think radator hose would work??...If i can find something that size. The car does pull harder now that the AEM is getting more cold air, just need to make it more efficient.

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Aceman

 

WTF is wrong with you. You buy a decent car then hook a bunch of **** you found in your basement up to the engine. Man it really looks like you got some road debris caught in your grill.

 

Thank you for your honesty, i look forward to hearing what else you have to say in other threads.

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Aceman