99 sl2 ram air intake experiment
 

last week after finding a whole in the stock intakes i went to orielly and made my own using the spectre peeformance stuff was real easy and looks nice ...

but the experiment is with the stock on well with a hole in it i got 28.4 miles to the gallon and im goin to do a week of balls out driving and a week of normal to see how much of a differenc there is

and today was the end of the balls out driving filled it up and it was leas big suprise lol 26.6mpg so lost 2mpg but thats foot in it most the time... srry about the multiple replys im usin my phone..

did a quick check today... not going to be compleatly acurate but did it at a qtr tank and got 32 to the gallon so a 4mpg incease but i will post when i get the real numbers

well filled it up today 266 on the tipometer 7.8 gallons later turns to be 34.1 miles to the gallon 5.5 mile per gallon increase

Damn thats pretty good, all the years I've been on SATURN forums and all the SATURNs I've owned I have never heard of such improvements in mpg from adding a short or cold air intake to a S-CAR. It must have something to do with living in Inver Grove Heights, I bet if you lived in Little Canada or Highland Park you'd not even see an increase.

well i do think that a big part of it is that there was a hole in the original intake tube so im sure that had somthing to do with it.... live in mn at sumpoint?

Never heard of Sumpoint Mn.

THank theyres sum spalling issurs har, eh?

touch screen phone posting... not feeling like taking the time to tripple check and only get 200 characters...

that makes your phone cooler than mine....
but the posts much more annoying to read....

i won't fight ya there i try to keep the crap spelling down but sometimes it just happens

i dont know about my gas mileage but i picked up 2 tenths and 1-2 mph at the track with a ram air setup

are ya sure it was related ONLY to the ram air?

im sorry it was .17 sec, i just found the slips

run 1 with no ram air

60' 2.437
330' 6.593
1/8 10.025@71.72mph
1000' 12.984
1/4 15.512@89.52mph

run 2 with ram air

60' 2.480
330' 6.543
1/8 9.919@72.82mph
1000' 12.843
1/4 15.345@90.54mph

funny thing about run 2 is i had a worse 60'. if i had the same 60' as run 1, chances are i wouldve ran close to 1 tenth faster on run 2. any time you drop from your 60' is doubled up top. (that's based on the few hundred track passes ive had since ive been racing at the drag strip)