Not seeing the snorkle getting any action..unless the soup bowl actually floods. I still say you spray painted it flat black to match...you just can't help yourself when it comes to looking cool <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> jk.

Everyone is going to think I really spray painted it! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> No, i'm not that obessed about color matching. You cant spray that. Atleast I didnt think you could. But i'm not <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

You could be the first to mod a snorkle. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

It has got to have a ram air effect.

The ram-air pressure created by the forward motion of the car is proportional to inlet air density and the square of the velocity. Using conditions at 1000-ft elevation and 70F gives the following results:

Speed "ram pressure"
77-mph ( 0.1 psi )
109-mph ( 0.2 psi )
134-mph ( 0.3 psi )
155-mph ( 0.4 psi )
173-mph ( 0.5 psi )


Hence "legally" all one can expect to gain is a 0.1 psi increase in intake pressure (note this is a far cry from the 6-psi+ pressure increase that turbo's and superchargers produce). This increase in pressure is added to the ambient pressure of 14.17 psi raising it to 14.27 psi. But this is a less than a 1% increase in inlet pressure. This trivial increase in pressure would increase mass flow through the engine by a similar amount - yielding a 1.2-hp increase to a 170-hp engine.