Is this possible/will it work?
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Pro
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Is this possible/will it work?
put a little fan right behind the filter to suck in some extra air that can be turned on/off with a switch? or make some extensions to the intake and have the fan activated with a valve (use your imagination :D)
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Re: Is this possible/will it work? (Treak)
any fan that would generate enough CFM to do any good will be huge and draw a bunch of power. So in short.. sure its possible, is it worth it? nope
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Re: Is this possible/will it work? (Treak)
If you want a general idea of how much air you need to move, stand behind your car at a dyno day. On a cold day, you can quickly feel the flood of warm air pooling up around the back of the car.
Put another way, your air intake is like a shop vacuum. Pointing a fan at it isn't going to gain you anything. That's why you need a powerful blower and real forced induction to get appreciable gains. The big fan's up there on dyno days to help cool the engine, not to force any air into it. :)
Put another way, your air intake is like a shop vacuum. Pointing a fan at it isn't going to gain you anything. That's why you need a powerful blower and real forced induction to get appreciable gains. The big fan's up there on dyno days to help cool the engine, not to force any air into it. :)
