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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:10:53 -0800, "Kip C. Anderson"
<kca(@)rio(.)com> wrote:

>A friend of mine has run A/B tests on his Storm with ram-air type ducting
>and without - all using the original airbox and plenums - and he was able to
>find several tenths quicker 1/4 miles times out of it.  Being that all of
>the original ducting restrictions were still in place, I have trouble
>believing that there isn't any pressurization, and the location of the
>original pickup doesn't lend much to picking up hot engine air in the fender
>given the way that it is isolated from the engine compartment.  Granted, the
>scientific controls in this experiment may be somewhat suspect, but he
>managed to get faster times out of a longer, less direct intake plenum at th
>e track.

"Several tenths?"

Taking that to be true, most of the real time is made in the first 1/8
mi., where the car is slowest, and the rest of the 1/4 mi. is just for
MPH.  If there is a *time* difference, that would tend to indicate
more power off the line, such as if there was some power increase at
slow speeds.  But if there wasn't any real change in the times, but
the trap speed increased noticably, that would indicate to me that
there was more power at faster speeds.

So from what you state, you are supporting Chuck's hypothesis of it
making cooler air, since there was no pressurization to be inferred
from your description.

IMO and all that

Marc
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