Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Duratec Performance ram air vs cold air

Im looking into getting air intake for the tour, but im unsure what will give me the best performace. Ive been reading posts about both. cold air I would need to move the fuse box Im not sure how that would go down i think that also invloves moving the battery too... then I read about ram air, but it seems like its just sitting next to the engine, not really cold... I saw one site that had the ram air and like flexable plastic tubing that goes down into the wheel well. So any advice would be great!

your going to get alot of differnt opinions about this...obv.the best thing to do would be to get the filter out of the engine bay(i just ordered one!!)but that requires more work than most people want to do, the next "best" option would be to buy an open element filter,k&n seems to be pretty popular w/the expirienced ones!! and make or buy a heat gaurd to seal off most of the engines hot air, or you could buy/make one of those kits that routes the air from your foglight directly into your filter,although there have been numerous discusions about the turbulence problems this causes..............
of course you couldve just searched to find out all of this information......but i'm not one of "those guys"

How much work in involved in the cold air method? I dont mind doing alot of work, im more worried about being unable to finish it etc. since its how I get to school and hopefully work. all the pictures I have seen have had the battery and the fuse still in the engine bay, so im wonerding how that works out, and when they say relocate the fuse box, is there enough length in the wires to move it the 3-4 inches it needs to be moved?

i have not done it myself but i know someone who did it to his daily driver and while he called it a pita with proper planning you shouldn't have too much trouble.
check it out here.

people have had mixed experiences with ram air....Some people say the car stalls at high speeds, or at idle, and some say it works but shows little gain.


You best bet is to stick with GrandMasterKhans CAI system. PM him on the boards, he can explain to you everything you need to know about it.


Lupe

yes, ron took the words out of my mouth. GMK(grandmasterkhan) has fabricate the correct tubing to go from the uim to the fenderwell without relocating you fuse box or battery to teh trunk, unlike the cai tubing in the thread posted above.

Sweet!!! i PMed him so hopefully he'll respond to me. I so want my tour to be quick, so many haters...

You can always justify that to yourself by saying " i'll have better weight ditrubution!!!= better handling" anyways when GMK replys get back to use on the price of this thing. i just recieved my cc cai but depending on the price of his vs price/labor of this one i might get rid of this one....also didnt somebody have a cai that the piping ran from the tb straight down towards the bottom of the motor??? then you had to relocate your maf??

get the GMK cai extension from gmk on fastcougar.com. cc.com just stole the design and reproduced it

where does the snorkel on the SVT's get its air from i.e. where is the other end of the snokel end?

Wouldn't this be a CAI if you run an RU-3530 in a sealed box (the ol' rubbermaid gargage can everyone uses) which if done right could be sealed on the MAF on one end and sealed at the snorkel on the other end?

All the air would be forced to be sucked up through the snorkel aka cold air intake/ram air.