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Cheap and easy mod to do get some plastic tubing the will fit snug into the fog hole run it up and stick into the KKM. Boom Ram Air. Optional Heat sheild. Less than $20 total. i faguely remember a problem with stalling in the MTX's but i didnt know if that was the "fog Ram Air mod" or something else. Also i didnt think that it had any effect on the ATX's. Any feed back would help before i go out to Home Depot tomorrow.
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I tried this the other day, and didn't have the right stuff. I bought some dryer vent hose, some band clamps and this nifty 4"-5" PVC pipe adapter (it's actually made out of 3/8" thick black rubber). I used the adapter to go over the fog light hole, and the 5" side fit perfectly over the dryer hose. I had 2 problems that kept it from working... 1) the dryer hose is too large to snake up thru the fender (there is some sort of bracket supporting the fender that gets in the way and 2) I could not figure out a way to attach the 4" side of the adapter to the fog light hole. There just wasn't enough "lip" to the hole to clamp to. It kept slipping off.
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Ever think what is gonna happen when you get caught in a freak downpour with this mod? Wonder what the result of running through a nice size puddle would be? Sure would be a pain in the ass to have to take it off, put it on, everytime it "looks" like rain..... Anyways, see here for previous info on this idea...
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Originally posted by T-RedSVT: Ever think what is gonna happen when you get caught in a freak downpour with this mod? Wonder what the result of running through a nice size puddle would be? Sure would be a pain in the ass to have to take it off, put it on, everytime it "looks" like rain.....
Anyways, see here for previous info on this idea...How about a remote butterfly shutter?
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Air flows up at road speeds; water, not so
much. You can work around it and provide a
drainage point if you're worried about it. I
have also seen an assembly that blocks water
but allows air that some of the import kidz
have been using for their speed-bump-scraping
super-low cold-air intakes. I think AEM makes
one.
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I had ram air that fed directly off of the grille on my old Grand Am. Never ran into any problems in the rain. The only thing I noticed was that there were a LOT more bugs in my K&N.
I have yet to figure out a way to do this on my Contour though.
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i tried this just by ramming a shop vac hose up through the fender and directly into the airbox.. didnt do too much, left it in for about a week, when i took the thing off, i noticed the bends were way too sharp for good air flow.
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well since i work at home depot, i decided to do a heat shield and ram air setup on my car about 3 weeks back. my heat shield is completely enclosed on all sides except for the top because the hood closes on it. so that eliminates most of the heat soak. then i bought a 2.5" vucuum hose thats about 10ft long that cost $19 from home depot. i then cut a circle in the bottom of the heat shield and ran the hose into the bottom of it. from there i ran the hose down behind the battery to underneath the car to where the splash shield thing is. i used my vucuum end connector piece that looks like a scoop and cut a whole into the splash shield. i mounted the scoop onto the splash shield and connected the scoop to the vacuum hose. sounds kinda confusing, so ill try to take some pics for you guys. after all said it done, i noticed better acceleration and less bogging. and before this mod, my car would always lag when i had about 3 or 4 people in the car, but now it pulls lots harder with heavier loads in the car! and no stalling at all! pretty cheap mod and worth while doing i think! 
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I think this is a great mod. 2 1/2" shop-vac hose work well. Pull all the plastic crap out of your fender well and grind out a little arc in the sheet metal where it crimps the hose under the liner. (You'll see it...) MTX problem: When you have strong air flow in your hose, (around 50+ MPH) and you push in the clutch, the idle will drop and possibly stall. Solution: Leave a 1/2" space between the hose and the KKM center cone. You'll still get cold air, but less turbulence to confuse the MAF.  An early ram-air testing setup...    Current "boosted" ram air fenderwell fitting.
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hey scott how well does that fan set up you have on there now work whats the cfm of that fan etc.
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