Need more HP? How about some Ram air intake block off plates?
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Update.
At the last Mojave mile my car's engine died on several occasions while waiting on grid, the stock J ducts still in place. I thought it was the flapper valve on the fuel filler again. However GTED had the same problem as well during the event. I doubt that we both had bad fuel fillers. So IMO this is confirmation of the idle issues with the air intake, even in stock configuration. I would suspect that my block off plates would have made the problem worst. I would have used them if I needed a little more speed, but since I hit my goal of over 200, I didn't install them.
Did anyone else have idle problem during the event?
Note that the cross winds were strong that day.
I hope to do some real testing with them at a track soon to see if the ram air has any effect on performance.
At the last Mojave mile my car's engine died on several occasions while waiting on grid, the stock J ducts still in place. I thought it was the flapper valve on the fuel filler again. However GTED had the same problem as well during the event. I doubt that we both had bad fuel fillers. So IMO this is confirmation of the idle issues with the air intake, even in stock configuration. I would suspect that my block off plates would have made the problem worst. I would have used them if I needed a little more speed, but since I hit my goal of over 200, I didn't install them.
Did anyone else have idle problem during the event?
Note that the cross winds were strong that day.
I hope to do some real testing with them at a track soon to see if the ram air has any effect on performance.
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Indy GT
Yea, I got one...too
B.M.F.
I am always interested in the penultimate engineering insight you always seem to have on Ford GT technical issues based on all your "experience" on other cars. You have been on our Forum for a few years now, but some of us old timers have been on quite a bit longer, been to many (if not all) rally’s and had the opportunity to talk directly to Ford engineers and technical personnel who were actually ON the GT development program. What these team members did in the short launch timeframe was herculean given the end product we now have.
There were many "lessons-learned" during the development of this car which had never been done before. Go read the SAE technical papers and review the Ford patents. When one of the Ford development technicians intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of our GT speaks up and says there might be a problem with closing off these air duct panels, it would be appropriate to respect this advice. Not that one must blindly accept the premise, but at least consider the experience. Rich and Dennis KNOW the FGT and many of the development problems which were encountered. They were there in the program during the FGT birth.
You might really be smarter than all of Mr. Goodnow’s or Mr. Hameedi’s design/engineering team, but it might be wise to give these people just a little respect or credit for identifying/solving technical problems and delivering the OE product which all of us now enjoy.:wink
I am always interested in the penultimate engineering insight you always seem to have on Ford GT technical issues based on all your "experience" on other cars. You have been on our Forum for a few years now, but some of us old timers have been on quite a bit longer, been to many (if not all) rally’s and had the opportunity to talk directly to Ford engineers and technical personnel who were actually ON the GT development program. What these team members did in the short launch timeframe was herculean given the end product we now have.
There were many "lessons-learned" during the development of this car which had never been done before. Go read the SAE technical papers and review the Ford patents. When one of the Ford development technicians intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of our GT speaks up and says there might be a problem with closing off these air duct panels, it would be appropriate to respect this advice. Not that one must blindly accept the premise, but at least consider the experience. Rich and Dennis KNOW the FGT and many of the development problems which were encountered. They were there in the program during the FGT birth.
You might really be smarter than all of Mr. Goodnow’s or Mr. Hameedi’s design/engineering team, but it might be wise to give these people just a little respect or credit for identifying/solving technical problems and delivering the OE product which all of us now enjoy.:wink