Lee, we have the Rod Bower Ram Air installed on a 'standard' IO540, vertical draft
induction. There is an elbow available from Airflow Performance that Rod
sent us to try, these elbows will not work. They push the front of the intake
too far forward, and will not leave enough room for the cowl. We made a fiberglass
elbow that attaches to the throttle body in the standard vertical orientation,
then makes about a 100 degree turn to meet the ram air intake. Hopefully
the pictures attached show it well.
Keep in mind when we did our install it was with Rod's 'old' design, I have no
idea what needs to happen for his new design. We also had to shorten the front
of the ram air intake to make it work.
Our objective was to not modify the cowl to make the system work, we are using
a James Cowl, with the standard induction position, not the cold air induction
position.
I like the concept behind the system, Rod was nothing but helpful. I will admit
that after putting in dozens of hours making this work I did start to question
my sanity. Not flying yet, no proof it was, or was not worth it.
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