Ram Air

Originally Posted by Jordo! Even if you carefully measure everything properly to get it flowing right, you'd be lucky to see .1 psi added at 60+ mph. "Ram air" is

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03-05-2012, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Jordo!

Even if you carefully measure everything properly to get it flowing right, you'd be lucky to see .1 psi added at 60+ mph.

"Ram air" is typically a misnomer in the automotive context. To truly get compression of air above ambient into the cylinders (i.e. ram it in), you have to be going VERY fast and have to use an appropriate shape of the intake duct. It's not as simple as having a windward facing intake. Typically, the gains from such "ram air" type setups for an automobile is just the access to cooler less restricted air.

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