im one of the ones from FG coupe that did this " Ram air " ideas. Does it work? I have absolutly no idea. I only did it because I had time to waste, wanted to have some fun, the theory is there and most deffinately possible, and its cheap.
So heres the theory and design I came up with. Ok, so I have seen several picture of drag cars that have bevels sticking out of their front bumper for the intakes to their turbos.. I have seen brake ducts sticking out of the front bumpers to ventilate the front brakes. And the most obvious, when you are driving your car, the head wind hits the front bumper directly. So there would be no difference between a brake duct or turbo inlet sticking out of a front bumper than a regular NA intake pipe sticking out as well.
So here is where I placed my engines intake.. You can see it sticking out of the area where the fog light is supose to be.
So there goes the air. Someone else on the FG coupe forum did something similar to this, except, from what I could make out of his posts, he had the hole there, and then a CAI right there. Nothing that Dirctly connets. So its just the regular CAI just like how its supose to be installed , and a hole in the fog light cover to let fresh air into that chamber where the CAI was. Problem with that, is there would be no pressure being put onto the filter. Its just, sucking in air like normal, except maybe a little cooler. So my idea was to directly connect a pipe from this hole to the stock intake box. And I did so by taking the rubber piece that belongs to the stock intake system that connects the intake to the inside of the fender. And Used that as the bevel, connected that to a pipe, and connected the other end to the stock intake box.
Here's the piping..
so then the only issue after that is what then, after it gets into the intake box, what happens then. And What I did, was I did exactly what someone else mentioned in here where they smoothed out the inside of the intake box. And I also installed a K&N air filter. ( I have no pics of this )
So like I said, I dont know if this works or now. I havent dino'd the car yet period. And even if I did dyno it, it wouldnt give accurate readings because technically, when you dino a car, the cars no moving. So theres no head wind. Sooo. IDK how someone would messure any gains or losses with this.
So yeah, thats my intake.