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Posts by 2SierraRomeo
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Yeah, like Flybuddy mentioned, "ram air" is crap with a filter involved. I built ram air into my plane with no discernible improvement at any speed. Even a ramjet rocket needs to hit 400mph before it starts to work. Pontiac was always big into marketing "ram air", claiming something like a 15hp improvement, but if that was close to accurate, it's just getting cooler air to a shorter intake. It is commonly said that each 10F degrees above ambient robs you of 1% power. There's a huge difference in underhood temperatures between the running vehicle moving and sitting still... seems to me it would be tough on the ECU to constantly have to compensate for a 50F+ spread in intake temperatures, so I like that mine is somewhat consistent, outside the engine bay.
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I don't quite get the whole "CAI" of running a long tube and filter to the front of the hot engine, when a true short-tube COLD air intake is this easy. Even when trying to separate it from the engine with a box shield, fresh air can't flow to it well and there's got to be some pretty bad heat soak at each stop light.
EDIT: Oh, just noticed this thread is non-Slingshot... but, the same principal applies.
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I'd love to score a set of the side ones if they ever come available again. My Dremel is ready to do some damage.
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Yep, red or blue lights can get you in big trouble. The cop could even go so far as to charge you with impersonating an emergency vehicle or police… A life ruining felony kind of thing. My underglow LEDs have red and blue settings I’d never use, but I had it on the aqua color setting one night, which is more green than it is blue, nowhere close to emergency colors, and a cop pulled up and suggested quite aggressively that I had better turn it off, immediately. I knew better than to get into a conversation of color semantics with someone with such a power trip chip on their shoulders.
Now I have the white “Night Rider” LED light bar in my grill. That thing has all kinds of flashing/strobing settings that I’d never use, for fear of attracting the attention of a rolling tax assessor. So, I just leave it on a slow Night Rider-style setting with the light moving back and forth. I have it hooked up to a dash switch, so if I see a cop coming, I try to switch it off. A couple police cruisers have passed with it on, without incident though. Even though it’s white, and not really flashing/strobing, I’m sure it could be made into an issue. I don’t run with it on at night though, because common sense says it could be confusing to other drivers and would attract more attention from LEOs.
