Tom, its pretty tough to plumb dual ram air intake with a turbo...I had one on 86 and wanted to do the same with my 84 [both non turbo] but I have a/c in the 84 and there's just no room.

 

Well, I'm kinda' one of those "think outside the box" types. I removed the headlight bezel, unbolted the turn signal lense, and cut the back out of the turn signal opening. Then I opened up the hole in the front sheetmetal panel right behind the turn signal to about 4.5"x6". Next I punched a 4" hole through the fender liner right behind the turn signal.

I fabricated air scoops made from 4"x10" heat registers that neck down to a piece of 4" pipe, and installed them behind the turn signal opening. I mounted a couple of dual LED lights I got at the auto parts store inside the air scoops - one wired as a parking/marker light and one wired as a turn signal light. So, basically the turn signal lense has been replaced with an opening backed by a zinc-plated tin scoop that acts as a reflector for the LEDs I'm using for turn signal and parking/marker lights.

I cut another 4" hole in the fender liner right at the back rear corner of the battery tray and installed aluminum flex ducting from the scoop, through the fender liner into the fender well, and then back through the fender liner to connect to the pipe from the air cleaner snorkle. I relocated the bracket for the oil dipstick tube from the 2nd and 3rd valve cover bolts to the 3rd & 4th bolts to move it back out of the way. I re-routed a couple of electrical bundles, a heater hose, and a couple of vacuum lines to make a clear path between the fuel filter and AC drier.

I then added a second snorkle from a stock air cleaner to the passenger side of my air cleaner assembly. I cut the sheet metal of the second air cleaner about 1" to each side of the snorkle and around the bottom of the air cleaner. I cut a square opening for the second snorkle by holding it in place on the side of my air cleaner and drawing around the opening on the inside of the snorkle to get the size, shape, and location. Then I used a die grinder and cutting disk to cut it out. I laid down a good bead of silicone around the hole to seal the snorkle to the body of the air cleaner and then pop-riveted it in place.

What I still have left to do is to remove the molded stock intake piece, pull off and modify the headlight bezel from the driver's side, open up the hole in the sheetmetal, and cut the entry and exit holes in the fender liner for the flex ducting. I've already got the scoop all fabbed with the LEDs mounted in it. Probably less than 3 hours work to make the driver's side match the passenger side. The problem right now is getting 3 hours of dry weather during daylight to actually do the work....

 

No, the problem is.... WE HAVE NO PICS!!!

 

Right On! Kinda hard to visualize from your dscription...pics are a plus!

 

LOL! You guys crack me up....

I'll do my best to get loose from the office early enough to have some daylight so I can take some picts for you guys sometime this week.

 

Your camera don't have a flash?

 

Yeah, it does, but it is pretty weak....

 

I have turbo and Air cond. I think I will leave well enough alone. I don't have the ambition of CheaperJeeper. Looking forward to seeing his pics.

 

I have AC, but not the turbo. That could make a BIG difference in the amount of room available in the required location.

I'll get some picts posted here in the next couple of days and you can see if what I did might work for you and if it is even something you might want to consider.....

BTW, I don't recommend doing it the way I did if you live in snowy climates - at least not without some sort of shielding around the exposed section of ductwork inside the wheelwells. Even if you shielded the ducting from snow pack, I don't know but what the scoops might fill up and get packed with snow if you were driving during a heavy snowstorm.

Snow isn't much of an issue in my neck of the woods, and on the rare occaision that it snows hard enough to be an issue on the roads, my 2WD truck will stay home in favor of my 4WD Jeep

 

I have a camera with a good Flash.

Cheaper...Drop me an IM and I can come over one night this week and I can snap a bunch of pics for you. You are no more than 20 minutes away.

 

Besides you can enhance a totally black digital picture to the point you can see everything just fine.

Or I could load up all my studio flash equipment and camera and come see you.
I do get travel expenses when I am doing professional photography though.

 

If anybody else is planning on doing a custom Y pipe like that, I am pretty sure that I saw a nice collector/reducer fitting on Stan's Header's website that looks just like the one that you made out of that reducer. I think they probably have a special machine that "stretches" the pipe into the shape to fit the 2 pipes into.

 

Yup, they sure do. I stopped by and looked at one - since Stan's place is less than 2 miles from my house. He only wants about two and a half times more for his ($42) than what I paid for the reducer ($16).