i have an '87 Formula. it is equipped with the TPI 305 and the T5 manual. as you probably all know, when the "power hood" made it's reappearance in 1987 it reappeared NON-FUNCTIONAL!!! well, i SCORED a functional "power hood" off an '83? T/A with the Cease-fire injection airbox (top half) attached. my question is, to all you engineers out there, help me design some apparatus to sit on top of the plenum and work with this awesome unit. i also am gonna have to include the MAF sensor.

 

It's not really feasible to do that with the TPI's, especially with MAF. Works great on TBI cars though...


With all that fabbin' you'd be better off with a cold air pipe instead of trying to tube hot air and then turn it 90 degrees to feed it to the engine.

 

well i dont care, ima gonna find a way....

 

I've been thinking about a setup with a ram air hood also. A 88 and 89 filter cans could be modified and fitted with a 3" hose going to your box. But I'd bet the maf won't like any moisture. Still thinking on that my self. I changed over to an 88 setup and seen some improvement.

 

You bet it won't. The MAF will not tolerate any water ingestion, I know this first hand.

 

hmmm....and i know where an '88 'Bird is right now, just got a "new" dash pad off of it...

 

I have a CFI car with ram air set-up as well as a TPI car. I don't think the hood would close over TPI with the cross fire hood.

 

oh so im lyin? THE HOOD IS ON THE CAR AS I TYPE. IT HAS BEEN FOR OVER D@MN MONTHS! and it shuts just fine and dandy thank you kindly. now, any suggs on an INTAKE SETUP? ya know, like the post asks?

sorry to be a dick, but im SOOO tired of people disagreeing with me about THINGS I HAVE ALREADY DONE. thats B.S. , that is STRAIGHT UP CALLING ME A LIAR. wouldn't you agree? and thats not right. ya dont do that to someone ya dont know. have a nice day

 

Sorry dude, it was just an opinion. You don't need to blow a head gasket.

 

Nobody called you a liar. However, you never said you already had it on your car until this post.

Lighten up already.

 

umm, yes i did, so you guys need to wisen up, geeze.

 

and dont turn this thread into a damn arguement, post a knowledgable answer or reasonable opinion not implying anything or just ignore it and dont reply, pretty FRIKKIN simple

 

Remember this board is for the free exchange of ideas
you get bad as well as good....
All volunteer, no one owes anybody anything....

At any rate I was looking into something similar for
an lt1 swap...

My thought was to do something like this...
http://www.slponline.com/view_produc...TNUMBER=100023

With a slight extension to move it more to the drivers side.

I haven't done much with this as I don't have the engine in
yet.

Only a guess but I think something similar could be fabbed
for your application.

Wanna go first...

 

hell why not? ill try it