First of all, I don't consider myself to be an expert on cars in general by any means, but I probably know enough to be a little dangerous.
As I understand, back in the hey day of muscle cars (before we became really concerned about pollution and then ricer sport compacts came out), the route that air took in ram air systems was basically straight into the throttle body(ies) (maybe through a roots type supercharger) and straight down into the block...very effiecient.
I once considered getting an aftermarket shaker hood scoop from Classic Design Concepts for my 01 GT. The system is the aftermarket equivalent of the shaker system on the 03-04 Mach 1s (although, I have never looked under the hood of a 03-04 Mach 1, so I don't know if the implementation I am about to describe is the same). I saw a picture of the system with the hood raised (although I can't find it now) but basically, after the air entered the hood scoop in the middle of the hood, it is immediately routed 180 degrees towards the front corner of the hood on the passenger side. Then it takes about a 150 degree turn to be routed along the right side of the hood towards the windshield, as though it were trying to meet up with the stock location of the air intake. And because all of this tubing has to fit underneath a stock hood, the tubes are really flat, oblong-shaped things that look like they would be absolutely terrible for airflow. It seems to me that, with all of this superfluous routing of the air through less-than-desirable passages, the system wouldn't provide you with any benefits at all, except now you can say "I have a functional hood scoop." I mean, sure, intaking fresh outside air is more desirable than warm stagnant air from inside the front fender, but the path the air has to take on a stock GT looks so much more effecient than CDC's shaker system.
Of course CDC doesn't provide any soft numbers of what kind of performance gains you would get from using this product, so I am wondering if anyone has tried out the system and can provide some insight on this issue.
Thanks.
As I understand, back in the hey day of muscle cars (before we became really concerned about pollution and then ricer sport compacts came out), the route that air took in ram air systems was basically straight into the throttle body(ies) (maybe through a roots type supercharger) and straight down into the block...very effiecient.
I once considered getting an aftermarket shaker hood scoop from Classic Design Concepts for my 01 GT. The system is the aftermarket equivalent of the shaker system on the 03-04 Mach 1s (although, I have never looked under the hood of a 03-04 Mach 1, so I don't know if the implementation I am about to describe is the same). I saw a picture of the system with the hood raised (although I can't find it now) but basically, after the air entered the hood scoop in the middle of the hood, it is immediately routed 180 degrees towards the front corner of the hood on the passenger side. Then it takes about a 150 degree turn to be routed along the right side of the hood towards the windshield, as though it were trying to meet up with the stock location of the air intake. And because all of this tubing has to fit underneath a stock hood, the tubes are really flat, oblong-shaped things that look like they would be absolutely terrible for airflow. It seems to me that, with all of this superfluous routing of the air through less-than-desirable passages, the system wouldn't provide you with any benefits at all, except now you can say "I have a functional hood scoop." I mean, sure, intaking fresh outside air is more desirable than warm stagnant air from inside the front fender, but the path the air has to take on a stock GT looks so much more effecient than CDC's shaker system.
Of course CDC doesn't provide any soft numbers of what kind of performance gains you would get from using this product, so I am wondering if anyone has tried out the system and can provide some insight on this issue.
Thanks.