ideas on cold air intake for this ?

[Belgian1979]

I'm waiting on some parts. In the mean time, I'm trial fitting a couple of things.

As you can see this is the final intake I will use on the engine. It will run with the foam socks you see on the pictures as filtration. The underhood cold air supply is standard vette 79 dual snorkel system (see picture).

My idea was to build a sort of plate above the manifold, which goes over the valve covers and attaches to the side of the valve covers. I would make an connection for the tube that goes to the cold air intake in the front and on the side for the right bank. Would probably make this in carbon, just to make it look a little nice.

What do you think. If you have a better idea, please post.

[Matt Gruber]

mock it up in cardboard, take a pic.
spray paint it maybe, to look nice.
i'll check back in an hour.

[Caprimaniac]

Remove the socks.
Closed box(es) with concertina hose to the front/ grille area or rear of hood with a large air filtre.

You prob can get carbon boxes to fit on the tb's with removable lid to get the trumpets on. Look at jenvey.com

RS

[SchmidtMotorWorks]

Could you post some pictures of the top view and also the underside of the manifold?

Do you have a sheet metal bending brake?

[Belgian1979]

Could you post some pictures of the top view and also the underside of the manifold?

Do you have a sheet metal bending brake?

I'll try to do that tomorrow. (real busy).

No I don't have a bending brake.

[Belgian1979]

Remove the socks.
Closed box(es) with concertina hose to the front/ grille area or rear of hood with a large air filtre.

You prob can get carbon boxes to fit on the tb's with removable lid to get the trumpets on. Look at jenvey.com

RS

Well, their design for the LS is quite nice,but I think I will have a hood clearance problem.

[Caprimaniac]

The LS intakes are great, but that wasn't what I was talking about....

The socks are restrictions. Some claim 50 horeses or more on a 600'ish V8, although I have my doubts, since alot of rallycross cars run with those... There's some threads on this here, I'm sure.

So, in order to get what you vant out of this setup and to feed cold air to the trumpets, I'd advice you to run closed air boxes on the TB's. You run a hose from those to the snorkel or whatever up front or to the front of you screen where you put a large filter box.

Boxes like these: http://www.jenvey.co.uk/home/accessories/airhorns-filters-and-boxes/jenvey-dynamics/right-hand-carbon-airbox-abrvrh

OK; if you want those airhorns visible, make up a "see through" set with perspex or other plastic material.

Another alternative is a larger box covering the TB's. Something like this /which is my old carb setup on a 302 and the top of the lid + air filter in the hood.

Would be a bit large with the crossram setup?

[Belgian1979]

50 horses ? That's a lot.

The IDF type stack system is better for constructing a box like that and if you have the hood clearance.

Will have to see what I can do with that. The corvette C3 is not exactly good when it comes to underhood room. Even the space in front of the rad, where I need to take my cold air is kind of retricted with the headlightsystem and the hood that goes in that area when opening it. Any filter would have to lie really flat against the rad.

[Belgian1979]

Coming back to this with a question. What thickness alu plate would I use to construct the air box. I acquired a bending brake to do some braking but it's only suited for thinner plate material, like maximum 2mm