So I'm riding in the car and brainstorming (wife is driving) and I get an idea.

What if I pipe a short-ram intake for the xj using a shop vac T-nozzle attachment around the back of the drivers headlight vertical alongside the radiator, similar to the setup in a c5/6 corvette? I might play with the idea.

If you've done something similar let me know.

 

Yes, yes thats quite the idea man!

 

do it.

this one has the bigger opening

but this one is wider

 

The more in thinking about it I might make it lower, scooping it from below the radiator and piping it up to the factory air box

 

too low and it will scoop up more than air in the rain or mud

 

I can only assume OP is planning all street driving with such a setup.

I try to live my life by the following:
If I can buy it at Home Depot, it doesn't belong on my vehicle.

 

It's just a prototype I'm doing a DIY cowl. I am planning a street/rally jeep in the future tho

 

the 1950s called for you, they want their (bad) ideology back.

 

LOL.

Hey, if you get something like this to work, it will be more of a "CAI" than the vast majority of everything else on the market that claims to be one.

 

Part of why I'm doing it.

 

Looking at these vacuum ends, I would think your going to restrict that airflow alot... but at the same time, the factory opening is pretty small too. If you have the resources, I would say some custom designed sheet metal could create a better baffle/airdam to scoop intake air, than a little hose attachment.

 

I would bring it around and thru the drivers window to the interior. Then with the A/C at full tilt, connect the hose to the exhaust side of the shop vacuum and plug the vacuum in using a Harbor Freight inverter to the cigarette lighter. And then turn on the vacuum. It will suck in the cold A/C air, filter it, pressurize it and then 'Send It' to the air box.

Is that the proper use of 'Send It'?

 

Friend of mine used 'send it' yesterday...had to ask him what they heck the meant since he was talking about finding the correct pinion yoke for his rear driveshaft.

Told him 'I'd run it' would be much easier to understand.


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Just do it OMR. You may or may not get the desired results but you will learn a lot regardless.

A bit off topic but...

 

I have to agree with that ideology.

In *most* all cases, crap from home depot does not belong on vehicles.

Not the wiring, intakes, snorkels, poop pipe, etc.

About the only thing offhand (that isn't in their vehicular section) would be compression fittings and maybe rocker switches.