Re: Washington Post: Road Rage Cause

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From: Woody
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:00

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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 10:16:02 GMT, tomlinsc@ix.netcom.com (Chuck
Tomlinson) wrote:

>At normal road speeds, there is essentially no "ramming" going on in 
>a ram air system.  The most additional pressure you can get from a 
>ram air system is the "stagnation pressure", which is fractions of a 
>percent higher than ambient pressure at speeds below 100 mph.  
>
>By the time you put baffles and ducting in to keep water from 
>ramming itself into your engine along with the air, I don't think a 
>ram air system provides any significant pressure increase at all.  
>IMHO, calling ram air "forced induction" is wishful thinking.

It depends on the car. My Mustang gets air from the fender which is
not very efficient. So a ram air that I made out of $10 worth of a
clothes dryer ducting material helped throttle response even at 20mph
or so. 

Most of the newer cars already have a similar setup of ramming air
through ducting into the throttle body.

Although, there's alot more bugs and gravel in my air filter, so
that's kind of scarry, and puddles of water can be bad too, so I took
it off.

http://youvegotmail.acmecity.com/west61st/201/

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From: Woody93LX@yahoonospam.com (Woody)
Subject: Re: Washington Post: Road Rage Cause
Date: 1999/02/22
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