Tested another idea at the track the other day. Thanks to Mark Peachy (quicksilver99) for his fab work in this project.

Wanted to get the air from the front of my car "lined up" and forced into a velocity stack styled intake. Came up with this idea;



Right now its a rough experiment but I did get positive results.

I started off with having Mark make some progrssive piping for me;




I of course cut the hole in the bumper and then cut down the pipe to fit in;



Then my racing buddy, Mario, welded on a cone (again from Peachy) to the end (I would rather have had a velocity stack, but that would have been much too expensive for experimental work);



Bumper with a plastic trim ring/velocity stack put in hole (the way I wanted to do it):



So ran it at the local drag day. About 4 runs without and about 4 runs with. The results were a definitive 1mph+ more on the traps. Not only that, but absolutely more pull after I crossed the line. Pretty cool results.

Now did I log it? Well.......I intended to, but didn't because, well, sometimes things just don't work out that well at the track. I really wanted to log vac to see if I was getting any positive numbers. Someone I knew did something like this and they actually came up with positive numbers after 100mph. Hmm, a boosted NA, lol? I won't tell you who, I'll let them come on if they want, otherwise we'll just consider it heresay.

Now if I expand on this, I will do a couple of things differently. The pipe at the throat is only 3 3/4" ID and it tapers down to the 2 1/2" throttle body size. I would like that to be more a 5" throat that tapers down. Also, would much rather have a velocity stack than a cone.

So experiment a success and a new addition to car.

Captain Caveman

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Congrats Mark! Looks good.

interesting. Still stuck in the 13.3's I'm guessing?

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dude theres a whole in your bumper...




Haha, nice though. Cool idea.

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Captain Caveman

96 RS Turbo 11.414 @ 119.62 MSNS, Crower 2 NA cams, BW366, 10.5 comp, UDP, 60mm TB, W/A intercooler, 3.55 tranny 567.9whp 430tq
97 RS NA 13.188 @ 103.87 MSnS powered 12.5 comp, Crower 3's and 219.4whp with 175tq
98 RS DD 12.5 comp on stock ECU, LTH, Crower 2's, Koni, GC, Hypercoil, DG hats
99 OZ 5sp Stocker 15.856 @ 85.97
99 GS stocker auto 17.7@77mph!

wiki home page:http://www.2gnt.com/index.php?d=bullettdsm

Captain Caveman

96 RS Turbo 11.414 @ 119.62 MSNS, Crower 2 NA cams, BW366, 10.5 comp, UDP, 60mm TB, W/A intercooler, 3.55 tranny 567.9whp 430tq
97 RS NA 13.188 @ 103.87 MSnS powered 12.5 comp, Crower 3's and 219.4whp with 175tq
98 RS DD 12.5 comp on stock ECU, LTH, Crower 2's, Koni, GC, Hypercoil, DG hats
99 OZ 5sp Stocker 15.856 @ 85.97
99 GS stocker auto 17.7@77mph!

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Dude I like your idea so don't take this the wrong way, Why did you not put it down in the little triangle shaped hole in the front of the bumper so ya did not hafta deface ya car like that? Plus it would have been a degree or two cooler.

I just know I've seen that crome cone in an auto parts house somewhere?

If you could get a shop or yourself to fab up a triangle shaped duct to ram it in and look good too at you would'a had a true sleeper to boot...Just my two cents but who knows maybe I'll try it, I started to but after seeing yours work I'll get to work on mines after I find a way to trace a pattern from the backside.

Always the innovator, Mark. Can't wait to see this car in person in Norwalk next month.

Originally posted by DR1665
Always the innovator, Mark. Can't wait to see this car in person in Norwalk next month.

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good point. wrong side of the car though.

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Captain Caveman

96 RS Turbo 11.414 @ 119.62 MSNS, Crower 2 NA cams, BW366, 10.5 comp, UDP, 60mm TB, W/A intercooler, 3.55 tranny 567.9whp 430tq
97 RS NA 13.188 @ 103.87 MSnS powered 12.5 comp, Crower 3's and 219.4whp with 175tq
98 RS DD 12.5 comp on stock ECU, LTH, Crower 2's, Koni, GC, Hypercoil, DG hats
99 OZ 5sp Stocker 15.856 @ 85.97
99 GS stocker auto 17.7@77mph!

wiki home page:http://www.2gnt.com/index.php?d=bullettdsm