Can I get more air into my stock 94 by making a better ram tube or is that a waste of time.


Thanks, the stock setup looks very limited on this ATS.....

 

I don't think there is much in the way of tangible gains to be had there, just my supposition. Some do cowl induction, Hypermax sells a piece premade to attach the hose to the cowl. I'll probably go that route eventually to try to clean up the engine bay. Either way, biggest difference you'll see is pulling air from anywhere ambient or close to it vs from the hot engine bay, it makes a real difference in EGT.

 

It doesn't pull from the engine bay, it has a snorkel that gets fresh air from the front grill but it is cheesy.


Also I noticed my air cleaner is like 2 pieces but the MotorCraft I am looking at on Ebay are 1 piece paper only without the secondary piece on the inner side......

 

I've run a 4" semi-rigid aluminum dryer duct up to the front by the grill for years. Over the last 3 months I've had my first turbo on there, and I can say that I *only* hit 14-15 PSI when doing about 80mph @ WOT. Otherwise it's no higher than 13psi no matter the conditions, even towing WOT up hill.
That tells me the ram air is doing something. oh and I should note that I did a common mod and cut out some of the radiator support to get air to the duct. There is still plenty of steel holding up the rad.
However I don't have a comparison to the stock snorkel as I never used it.

Even better than that is making the exhaust housing a true 3" exit vs the dumb 2.5" exit Ford decided to use. Then max your pump and have more fun!

Another note, Justin did a dyno run with multiple factors, one being open turbo inlet(literally open, no filter either) and then compared it to the factory intake+snorkel. The dyno showed no restrictions on the factory set-up. Actually it technically showed an increase but Justin pointed out that it was inside the margin of error for the dyno so is statistically irrelevant.

 

How do these things sound with a big turbo on them ? the stock ATS seems to small to really whistle..

 

The Borg Warner S360 I got produced a /lot/ of whistle... but not a lot of boost. Once I got a really tight .63 housing on it, /then/ I got plenty of boost(Up to 30 PSI, limited by the 110 cc's of fuel at that point.

If you want more whistle with the existing turbo, you need to open the exhaust up. Straight pipe it or use a straight through glasspack muffler.

 

no real noticeable gains, but better filtration. air is coming from cowl hood, engine compartment is fairly cool, minus hotspots
only real benefit is the ascetics
pass side battery is now on frame rail

 

That is a air cleaner, what did it come from ? is my stock ATS set up ok ?

 

came from E-bay lol. Donaldson 6637 filter.
I never had the stock system, and instead of locating one, I decided to build my own.

 

How does that radiator work, how many cores? I have had an over heat issue on the interstate so I bought a 4 core so sure hope it cures it... Thanks.

 

she stays 190 in town just under 200 when im on it