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ram air tubes

Post by warrior64 » Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:21 pm

Do those little air ram tube things really do anything,they did on my blackbird but only over 100+

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Re: ram air tubes

Post by greggo » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:13 am

On the NC29? Nope. If you are talking about the placcy bits on the side all the do is throw a smidge of cool air onto the float bowls and back of the engine.

It's just there to make the japanese go ohhhh and ahhhhhh back in the day when it was made.

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Re: ram air tubes

Post by Waza4 » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:14 am

greggo wrote:On the NC29? Nope. If you are talking about the placcy bits on the side all the do is throw a smidge of cool air onto the float bowls and back of the engine.
Antipeculation cools float bowls too stop the fuel boiling in the carb.

They use fans on Renault 5 Turbos and Fiat X1/9's for this.

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Re: ram air tubes

Post by leopard_pagan » Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:42 am

on the NC29s they are pure Aesthetics. the real air inlets are just behind the headstock, under the frame.

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Re: ram air tubes

Post by Cammo » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:43 am

leopard_pagan wrote:on the NC29s they are pure Aesthetics.
Same as rvf400's, purely for the look.
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Re: ram air tubes

Post by leopard_pagan » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:38 pm

mind you, if you inserted a tube and curved it round and in to the air box as ram air.. would they work then?
or just not a do-able idea..

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Re: ram air tubes

Post by warrior64 » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:10 pm

so 80 quid for carbon fiber ones is a bit mad then(since that is a quarter of what the bike cost),ahh, what inventive ways to waste your money there is

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Re: ram air tubes

Post by missinNZ » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:15 pm

warrior64 wrote:so 80 quid for carbon fiber ones is a bit mad then(since that is a quarter of what the bike cost),ahh, what inventive ways to waste your money there is
ahhh but have you seen how much more the originals are?

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