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<font color="red" size="+2" face="tahoma"><b>Poor Man's Ram Air</font></b>

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<p align="left"><i>This mod brought to you by the cheap and
warped genius of Tim Gahagan.</i></p>

<p align="left">Now don't laugh!</p>

<p align="left">Remove the silencer cone and air chamber from
inside the driver's side front fender. This will probably require
that you remove the tire and wheel well liner so that you can
gain access to the part. You also have to temporarily remove the
main air box in order to remove the mounting nuts that hold the
silencer in place within the fender.</p>

<p align="left">Remove the silencer horn, then saw off the
plastic key that forces you to install it in only one way. Then
you can turn the horn around (this makes the horn point inward
and down). Saw off the horn leaving around a 1 inch lip. Remove
the silencer horn constriction after this modification is done.</p>

<p align="left">Now for the air box modification.</p>

<p align="left">Take a 1 gallon milk jug (yea don't laugh it gets
better), cut it in half diagonally and cut it so that you can
form it into the air box and create a scoop that will force air
out of the horn to the filter box instead of back to the pointed
end of the box.</p>

<p align="left">I used rivets to secure the milk jug, leaving a
little lip of the milk jug hanging out of the box at the bottom
of the hole that goes to the filter box. This is curled around,
and re-attached the foam seal to it so that it will better seal
when box is secured back in fender.</p>

<p align="left">Now get a vacuum hose (I mean the kind that would
hook to a SHOP VAC the 2 inch kind) (I told you don't laugh, that
is would get better.) Cut one end off of the hose, this end you
can secure to the horn (where you cut off the horn leaving a
1&quot; or so lip).</p>

<p align="left">Run the hose up and around in the bumper to the
front to the grill.</p>

<p align="left">I placed mine very low (read further for
problems), in the bottom slot below the headlights and between
the fog lights (didn't want to lose my fog lights).</p>

<p align="left">Ok more junk to get, go get the vacuum scoop that
is roughly 4 inch long and 3 inch wide (I think it is one used to
suck up water, it has a small plastic squeegee/brush in it). Rip
out the brush. I made a 90 degree &quot;L&quot; bracket one side
with a hole which will allow me to screw it into the mount that
is for the transmission cooler. The other side of the
&quot;L&quot; bracket is wider and this I bent at and angle to
allow the scoop to set flush to the bracket and the mouth of the
scoop to be vertical (allowing for the hose connection to point
upward) Now route your hose and plug in.</p>

<p align="left">I am not a dynamometer man or anything but I read
that it is anywhere from 5 to 10hp gain. <i>Ed. note: very
dubious claim.</i></p>

<p align="left">I shaved a tenth off of the quarter and can creep
away from stock SHOs (autos, mine is an auto) on the highway,
around 95mph to 100mph you can really feel a difference in the
pull of the car.</p>

<p align="left">Be noted that this could possibly suck up rocks,
cats, dogs, gravel, sand, dust, water, or lettuce.</p>

<p align="left">I have found that the air box needs to be cleaned
regularly (every 2 weeks or so) and that when I drive up against
the concrete wall on the interstate it sucks more dust.</p>

<p align="left">Sand and dirt is my only problem. Water has not
been a problem for me, even the day I drove 65+ when it reined 12
inches in an hour. The filter was somewhat damp but not bad.</p>

<p align="left">To monitor water, I rigged a circuit to notify me
if the filter got wet, and a different one if water was pooling
in the filter box. The second warning has never come on. (Check
your 150 and 151 science project for water sensor circuits)</p>

<p align="left">For what it is worth (20 bucks) it seems to me to
add about 5 hp. </p>

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