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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 03:52 PM
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SLP, S&B, Volant, K&N, etc all claim to have hp increases for their air intake tubes/setups. But I wanna hear it from you guys.

For Ram Air 2002 Trans am WS6
1.What is the best air intake tube/setup you can buy.
2. Hp vs. Money. If you can't afford the best, What is the best one you can buy for the money?
3. What throttle body will be best for the stock LS6 manifold and tube/setup?
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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 03:53 PM
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Super sucker ram air, or with ws6 hood a truely sealed airbox to the lid

Stock tb is fine at this point leave it alone
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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 03:56 PM
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I have the ram air ws6 hood. Link or pic of the two described?
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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 03:59 PM
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Super sucker ram air, or with ws6 hood a truely sealed airbox to the lid

Stock tb is fine at this point leave it alone
bump for failed quote
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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 09:54 PM
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check out Speed Inc for the chris1313 system
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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 11:22 PM
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Some form of lid such as an SLP or FTP and then match it up with a 1313 ram air setup.
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Old Sep 21, 2012 | 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron@Texas-Speed
Some form of lid such as an SLP or FTP and then match it up with a 1313 ram air setup.
Best way to go right here, I can vouch for the SLP as well, only paid about $90 for it and the fit is very nice.
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With every SLP kit I've seen you can literally here the intake sucking the air in from the bottom....best choice a a ram air hood set up, but I go with SLP ones typically
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Old Sep 26, 2012 | 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by wildcamaro
With every SLP kit I've seen you can literally here the intake sucking the air in from the bottom....best choice a a ram air hood set up, but I go with SLP ones typically
What about a JAAM Ram air kit with a true ram air set up? All you'd need is a mechanical shield that you can open and close whenever it rains.

I don't like the 1313 cause its sucking in all the nasty **** that's kicked up from the road and warmer air accumulates down there from the radiator
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I've liked my SSRA so far. I get IATs that make the local cobra guys jealous. I've seen IATs in the mid-upper 60s with some of this cool weather we've had lately. With the possible exception of the ws6 hood and a good setup (don't quote me on that since I don't own one), our cars are bottom breathers, so the scoop intakes (SSRA, FTRA, Chris1313) generally work the best.

As for recorded gains from only the intake kits, there's an old E.T. comparison with a scoop blocked off somewhere on here, but most of us do more mods than just a cold air kit between visits to the dyno.

Ported stock throttle bodies work well, and can either be ported yourself, or ordered for cheap on ebay. I haven't seen many other members change throttle bodies until they change intake manifolds.

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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 02:58 PM
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is there cutting required to install the SSRA?
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proven gains with ssra.
Removable, lightweight, best flowing IMO.. and cheap.
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by 8ty8 LS1
is there cutting required to install the SSRA?
Just the free ram air mod on your lower air box, but that has to be done for any of the scoop kits. You have to remove part of the lower radiator shroud, but you shouldn't have to cut it. I'm running the AC version, not sure if the non-AC version install is different.
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