intake piping

[nastyrash 2003]

this makes no sense wat your saying about the cold air feed to the engine, you have the most restrictive inlet manifold and thn restrict even more with this intake piping, in all respect i would think u would see better bottom end and a lot less top end. thr iz 1 way to find out put a vac gauge inline just before the throttle body and see wat presure your getting at set rpms. i would bet money u see negative presure right from the word go and the more u increase rpm the more negative presure will increase, showing loss in top end as the engine iz hitting peak flow early, thr are ways around this by putting plenum chambers in the intake line. just stick to the standard air box and high flow pannle filter trust me. plus the bend in the piping wer it comes upto the filter head iz above 45deg not good this will only hinder the air flow. this type of system is tried again and again and every 1 i have seen gives nothing but a loss to the engine. it might work if u put the turbo inlet mani on and the TB, this set up will see masize top end gains by derestricting the inlet side and thn this system might help get back som lost bottom end torque. but would lose that tight bend under the filter head. plus wat your being told about the shield iz correct if anythig turn it around as you are sucking in hot air from the rad, and loosing the ram air affect from the front and wen the coolant fan kicks in this will draw more air away from the filter head, everything looks backwards. hope this gives u a little insight into induction systems and if u want to know how to test your design just ask and i can tell u, thn u will be able to see wat im talking about.