I have a 1988 GTA with a functional ram air hood. I've been looking around at air intakes for it, and really want to put a short ram intake on it like you see in this picture: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...Picture025.jpg
Is this a good idea, and if I do it, what do I do about the MAF?

 

if you have a functional ram air hood i assume its the one sold by hawksthirdgenparts.com, which is the only functional thirdgen hood i know of. hawks markets a filter housing kit that matches up to the hood, which incorporates the MAF in the intake tube, all in all a much better setup since the filter isnt sucking air from under the hood. to use a cone filter with MAF you'd have to build some sort of CAI setup and that filter wouldnt work since its oval-shaped to fit the TB on later speed-density cars that dont use a MAF

 

Thats a big help. Thanks a lot.

 

no problem just make sure your hood really is the hawks part before dropping the $210 for the ram kit... i've seen non-functional hoods cut out to make them "functional" but the hawks kit wont fit. whether you build a CAI or have the hawks hood and add the ram air kit either is a better option than an open element

 

It is. Turns out I do have the intake box that comes with it. The guy who I bought the car from gave it to me (nice guy). I just need to figure out how to fit it to the intake manifold...

 

i've had good luck with hawks customer service you can always ask them for a copy of the instructions, bruce and his team do a great job.

 

Ill probably do that. They could probably steer me in the right direction of tubing for the intake.

 

the intake that i see in that pic is nothing more than an air filter attached to the throttle body- it is kind of the exact opposite of what a "ram air" intake is..

 

Im going to use my k&n airbox instead now