08-09-2011, 09:29 AM | #1 |
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Anyone cutout the mail slot?
Has anyone made it into a real mail slot to push air toward the engine? If you have what do you think the gain in horsepower would be? +2?
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08-09-2011, 09:50 AM | #2 |
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wondered the same thing, just to give the engine a little extra air in the compartment to cool.
Wouldnt gain any HP, your intake uses it own scoop from the front of the car; aftermarket ones are sealed from the engine bay heat. I guess its possible to give a little more air to an OTR intake...
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08-09-2011, 09:54 AM | #3 | |
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08-09-2011, 09:58 AM | #4 |
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Trade in for a ZL1. It's faster and has no mail slot.
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08-09-2011, 10:01 AM | #5 |
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I'm not going to promise that I'll find Mindz's post where he explains that ram-air hoods don't really do anything until you are going roughly 150+. But I'll look for it. Basically he explains how ram-air hoods are a cosmetic mod and not a performance one. So you wouldn't see any gain in HP
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08-09-2011, 10:03 AM | #6 | |
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Found it
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08-09-2011, 10:06 AM | #7 |
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This has been discussed before. Basically, if you were to open up the mailslot, you still have the hoodlatch behind it and the radiator and structural support.
Here's one thread from the past (there are others, too, if you want to do a search to read more about it): http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...light=Mailslot |
08-09-2011, 10:25 AM | #8 |
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Thanks for the quote and links. Im going to avoid the cutout
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08-09-2011, 10:35 AM | #9 |
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I know...hate the fake mail slot and I'll add the quarter panel grill to that...Although, I like the way the mail slot looks...Would take some serious fabricating and creativity to make it happen. A lot of guys are throwing led lights in there to make it somewhat functional
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08-09-2011, 11:12 AM | #11 |
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aw crap...not THIS AGAIN.
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08-09-2011, 11:28 AM | #12 | |
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On a sidenote....I didn't bother reading the superlong quoted post above as to why ram air doesn't work....but my 3rd gen picked up a solid 1.5 mph in the quarter mile when I made the ram air hood functional. So if its not supposed to work....I dunno why it did. Why were the Ss and ram air trans ams faster too? Weird. Heres a pic of my home made not supposed to work ram air:
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08-09-2011, 01:55 PM | #13 |
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Such Knowledge! I feel so stupid now.
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08-09-2011, 02:25 PM | #14 |
Don't! We all have questions and the only reason I knew anything about the hood latch is because my Dad, who worked intimately with the production of the 5th gen from 05 to late 08 (he never got to see the line in production before retirement :() had told me when I asked the same question.
This is a great place to learn about not just the 5th gen, but general vehicle dynamics as well. I found the Ram-Air posts just as informative
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