Cold air intakes

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 Making a CAI, or a shortram intake
+When I think of Cold Air Intakes, the first car that I think of is the 1964 Ford Fairlane THUNDERBOLT. Detroit Steel Tubing, known as DST purpose built these cars for drag racing for Ford. The engines that they were using were 425 HP 427 Cu. In. How do you feed cold air to a engine of this size? BIG PIPES! How big? About 6 inch diameter. When you need to get cold air from the frontal area to the gigantic carb intake you take the most direct route. Kick out the inner headlights (who needs four headlights on a drag strip), add some grills to keep out large debris, run the expansion pipe up to the aluminum intake box and you have it. Check out the pictures on how they did it back in 1964.
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+[[Image:Side_view_of_cold_air_intakes.jpg]]
+[[Image:Dual_intake_pipes.jpg]]
+Of course, other people have their own views on what cold air intakes should be, and they're entitled to them. '''BIG IS BETTER'''
 This is really quite simple; a great project for the budding automotive enthusiast.

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