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Old 10-22-2008, 10:27 AM
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I finaly did it..Not the best, but the price!







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Interesting
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Is it another sign of the economic downturn hitting main street? Yet another member to improvise his own scoop.

Nonetheless, good effort. Let us know how it works.
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i dont know about this one.
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this reminds me of when i had a old trans am, back in highschool, and we used dryer duct to make a ram air intake. not sure how well any of this could work
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looks very stockish, i like...
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Excellent!
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Looks Very good, but I wonder hows the performance...
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wht does it do.sorry, didnt understand
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Can't really tell from the pictures but it doesn't look very "scoop" like... looks like the air will just hit that and cause some turbulence.

I agree it does look close to stock...wouldn't take much to get it to work. Take off the air box, use a small fan and a small smoke bomb and try to adjust to get a clean flow into the box.


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