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Originally Posted by Joshinator99
Yeah, I wouldn’t have bothered adding additional insulation to fill gaps as that filter “box” area is starved for air IMO. If you’re adding additional airflow to the area that won’t hurt. That said…
…this is a serious possibility. I question the air filter size for two reasons:
1. Pray nets 35 WHP on a 930 WHP Camaro with simply removing the filter and adding a bell mouth.
2. I just put a nice CF Corsa CAI on my wife’s new Mustang GT and the filter they provide was bigger and better designed than the filter on my BG! My wife’s car needs 48 lbs/min of airflow…. I need 123 lbs/min of airflow… WTF lol
So couple questionable filter size with a “box” area that’s choked for airflow and I think it helps explain why cars that dyno big numbers often struggle to get drag strip performance that lines up. I noticed Jason Leiva’s car does not run the heat shield at all! So it’s pulling in “hot” engine bay air…and trapping 173 MPH. Lesson learned!
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Agreed, total air flow trumps all on the incoming side and when it's comes to "ram air", you're not force feeding the engine any more air than it can pull in on its own. You can create a positive pressure in the air box but that matters little when the engine is only going to consume what it can use regardless of how much is available. At the end of the day, its always about creating the least amount of restriction but I just don't believe any ram air design is going to help enough to matter. When the quickest cars out there aren't doing it when every tenth matters, thats says enough for me about whether it's a waste of time or not.