You've got other problems if you have gone through that many MAF sensors

 

I've seen about 6 camaros done this way. I'm glad to see someone finally do this to a TA. The only thing that looks off is the ragged line around the license plate area. The rest looks great. Most guys seal that bottom area so that the air doesn't just go out the bottom. The more serious guys completely seal the openings to the radiator so there's no place it can squeek past.

For those that think it looks unfinished you've probably never been around a real road race car. If all you ever see are FI cars with intercoolers then that's what you come to expect. The problem is in your head, not this guys car.

Andros, if you want, I have a lot of links to other cars (camaros) with front breather conversions if you want them.

What's great about doing a front breather conversion is that now you can run a long front spoiler to keep the air from getting under the car and reduce drag. I want to convert my TA just so I can run a Wings West looking spoiler that I'll make myself.

Are you a member of frrax.com? You should check it out if your not.

A few years ago I did some photoshops of my car with different mesh ideas. Take a look.





And one with a cooler hood.

 

my car has no cooling problems with the air coming from the air damn

 

user error

 

yeah i think it would look good if you hacked the liscense cover to wher eit only had the bird and a mesh screen, it has potential

 

Update! I sealed my front breather to the radiator. I used sheet metal once again. It was a simple idea but it took me forever to get the right size so I can put back on my bumper properly.
I extended the bottom seal to go all the way across the bumper so it seals and I used 2 small sheet metal and bent them so I can bolt them to the bumper support holes.








I'll have some pictures of my middle front grill tomarrow. I tried so many different type glues I finally went to this body shop place and they ordered me something that can seal the grill to the plate. They told me this would work, I hope so.

 

Thanks but I'm about 90% done with this conversion and I already have a few pictures of other front breather conversions, mostly Camaros.
Yes, I am a member of frrax.com. I recently joined there a few days ago, my tag is Didi's Hot. I have a thread about this same thing on there too.
If you want to ask me anything about this I'll be glad to help

 

I don't understand. Why are you saying this?
Are you a road racer as well?

Andros, are you going to add a front spoiler? You could if you wanted to now.

 

Update! I finally got my grill on, thank you bboyferal for all the help.





It came out nice, Now I need to figure out how to mount a grill on the fog light holes

And JasonWW I will eventually add a front lip spoiler.

 

What is a front lip spoiler? I thought spoilers only go on the back.

 

Just like whats on the back, just different format, its designed to produce downforce. Like the splitters on the new nascars

 

What you can do is cut away the cylinder shape fog light holes flush with the bumper. so that you can put the grill flush behind the bumper, then just glue it or whatever you like. Make sense? Just like the first pic in post #22

 

I thought you were keeping your foglights!

Looks, good... Damn you did that QUICK!

 

For fitting the grills in the fog light:
If that is metal grill material find a metal tube that is about the same diameter and cut out the grill material about 2" larger in diameter than it should be. Then hold the round material centered over the tube and make some cuts all around the edge. Then tap the edges down. Then you can use some double sided tape only along the top half so it's not seen. You may be able to cut away the excess folded part of the grill along the bottom just to improve the looks.

 

Here is the Wing West front spoiler. This guy molded his in.



Normally these come with an extended plastic piece to scoop up more air under the car since it blocks some of the frontal area. It's no big deal for a front breather, though.

 

Who makes this front bumper?

 

No one. That is hand made by the owner.

 

I'm wondering if I should cut the plastic by the radiator fans like this now that im a front breather.

 

i've seen that front bumper for sale before on a website last year but i can't remember the webpage. i'm looking for the same bumper cuz i'm going FI. so, if anyone knows of anything, please let me know.

 

Why in the world would you do that? Are you going to remove the fans as well because your a front breather? Of course not.
The shroud is there to improve the cooling, not hinder it. What it does is allow the fans to create a suction over the whole surface of the radiator instead of just the area right in front of them. This doubles the cooling capacity. You definetely want to keep it. As a bonus, if you look at it closely you will see some one way flaps along the bottom that let the air flow through the shroud at higher speeds when the fans are turned off.