I want to feed cold air to my carburator, but I dont have the $$ for a new ram air hood. searching the board, i recently came across something that looks OE, and i could probably adapt to my 14" filter element.

my question is, where can i find one of these, and is it worth it? or should i go with dryer ducting and moving the vac cannister?


-Andrew

 

junk yards, and ebay will have those usually, or when i looked they both did. Yes it will help with getting a cooler charge to the carb, but so would adding your own cowl hood. my original plans were to just buy/make a cowl, and mold it into a steal hood off of a junked car.

 

AFAIK that is an OEM piece, optional for TPI equipped cars.

 

yeah, i was actually thinking about doing that, and had an entire discussion on it.

louver intake

it was more or less determined that #1, i am an obsessive freak, and #2 it would be more work than it would be worth, at least the way i wanted to do it.

 

Won't you have to move the A/C hoses as well?

 

nah, i failed to mention that i got a complete serpentine setup out of an '89 RS in the junkyard. makes my AC hoses very short, and all on the passenger side.

 

phess11, any place i can find one of those dual snorkels tho? I hear they are pretty hard to come by.

 

Ebay,


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWA%3AIT



Be willing to pay some cash. They usually go for $180-$250.


The flex hoses could still be purchased for GMPartsdirect.com as of 6 months ago.

 

Only problem is they won't fit with a stock Firebird hood. They slope down a lot faster than the Camaro hoods and are too low/close to the radiator to use these.

 

I got a mint one for sale, asking $120 o.b.o.

 

Check out these guys:

www.ramairbox.com

I've used their stuff quite a few times. Takes some serious trimming to get it to fit over/around the distributor but it works. And it flows WAY better than a stock dual snorkel air cleaner housing.

 

I went out to my local bone yard and accidentaly found on. I was looking for some thing entirely different and there it was in the back of an 84 camaro with H.O. ground effects. i picked it up and the lady at the counter is all "that will be 18.50." i held up a 10.00 and said " this is all i Have.. she siad ok... 10.50. i said SOLD!! so now im in search of the ducting or im going to make my own and put it up by the High beam head lights for a little ram air

 

nice. yeah there are all kinda of deals like that. I got a massive box of parts for 8 bucks once. I didn't even know these things were worth anything until I saw this thread. I figured, egh what the hell, i will post that I have one. I would never pay 100 bucks for one. I was just seeing if it was in fact true that they are a hot item

 

yeah its one of those things that u want to get but its like ummm,.... thats too much money for some thing like that.. so when i found that one im like "yeah, gotta have it." if any one has the duckting let me know id like to have the stock style set up

 

i have seen several in junkyards around here. the ones on the 6 cylinder are the same.

 

If this is true, then that prettymuch ruins that. Maybe i'll just cut a hole in the hood. or put on the power bulge hood.

 

If someone wants my ducting it is pretty mint and I will sell it for somthing like 50 o.b.o. I am going to ebay it and see what it can haul in there.

 

I've got the power bulge hood, and the Camaro ducting will not fit on my 'Bird.