ram air baby

I put this ram air system in today, it sounds like a little jet engine. its the hot air distribuition motor from a vw van. it puts out like a leaf blower right at the air cleaner. it is not a sealed air box. lots of fresh air now!!!

Nice job, i am thinking about doing something similar, although i was looking at one of these....

http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/product/Axial_Fan_AXFAN

Yours looks a lot more powerful.... hehe

Sy

go find a blower from a vw van, this little fan is very powerfull and rubber mounted so quiet. outside the scoop sounds like a jet engine intake but not so loud but it does the same kind of sounds. ( i work on aircraft) now i want to make it force feed the carb somehow instead of just blowing at it

ok so now its full ram air! i made a leather plenum out of a cowboy boot upper. (my sons idea) now with the flick of a switch i have leaf blower level air pressure puonding down the carb body with almost no air leakage at all. you should see me go up the hill now! hee haw! i put a wind pipe style coil spring in the leather plenum because under high load the boot starts to collapse. now with the coil spring i can reach high rpm and beyond.

so i looked it up and this would be a kiud of forced induction and intercooler combo in the sense that the air is loaded under force into the manifold, yet the air is still cold and moist as opposed to a supercharger which requires an intercooler to keep the Nox and pinging down due to increased combustion temperatures. its like having a hood scoop thats putting air into the engine at 60 mph but at any speed all the time.

interesting idea. I have a turbo bonnet and some chrome tubing so it would be easy to do that.

So, you don't need to enrichen the fuel mix when the blower is on forcing more air in?

When the blower is off, are you just sucking air through the tube, past the blower?

this is awesome.
you should wire in a rheostat that's synched with the engine speed, so the more rpms you turn, the faster the fan motor blows.
and watch out for water!

look up "leaf blower civic" on youtube for justification
(i would drop the vid here, but i'm at work)