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It doesn't matter where the air is coming from...it gets cooled off when it passes through the intercooler anyway. You seriously need to check out www.howstuffworks.com and search turbocharger. It will show you what you are not understanding.

 

The upper grille isn't big enough for an intercooler worth a damn anyway. Only thing you could do would be to aim some of the air on the turbo itself.

 

Alright I'm sorry i was rushing alot the other day, but ive figured out my confusion. The grille was never meant to have an IC just a filter. And this would cause a Ram-Air effect, found on pontiac firebirds and grand ams.

I see this as more efficient, because the air moving under the car is accelerated, but once it's reached up into the engine bay it becomes distorted and all of the air isn't instantly going in through the filter, While when you take air directly in from the front, it rams all that air into the pipe which, in turn, would force all of that air into the air inlet on the turbo. I suppose then any air coming in the traditional way can further slightly cool the turbo as the air is flowing around it during acceleration.

I've consulted my father, and a few other car tuners that i know and they don't see why this wouldn't work. I understand it won't be any huge super-significant increase in power, but it should be an increase none the less.



And i dont need to go to howstuffworks or do any research . I'm just a stoner and i was watching family guy as i did this the other night..

All i essentially wanted was some feedback, so go at it!

 

It is more trouble than it is worth. I am skeptical that that would actually do anything noticable. I think the ducting would cause more of a restriction than just having an open filter.

Sounds like a silly excuse for ram air on an application that won't need it. Call me a skeptic, but until someone does some solid tests that prove cold, fresh air is better than air sucked from the engine bay on an intercooled turbo setup, I am not going to be adding unnecessary stuff to cramp my already cramped engine bay.

 

Agreed, the turbo will heat the air regardless of the temp it comes in at and then it will be cooled again through the intercooler. Additionally, 'ramming' air into the turbo is useless. The turbo will compress the air as it was designed to do and 'ram' the air into the intake (boost - positive pressure), again, as it was designed to do. You will do nothing but have a bunch of unnecessary hosing/piping running around in your engine bay and likely cut up a bunch of needed supports to make this work.