[DeTomaso] Techno question: cold air induction "turkey pan" style for the Pantera

[Rob Dumoulin]

Would it be that difficult to seal the pan area around the back hatch?
On Jan 9, 2012 1:11 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 1/9/12 9 20 50, cengles at cox.net writes:
>
>
> > Does the relatively simple "turkey pan" style cold air induction
> > modification actually work? Methinks that it doesn't work all that well
> or else we
> > would see it more often and on the vintage racing Panteras (Pat Hals).
> > Comments?
> >
>
> I think it would only work if fresh air was being introduced from
> elsewhere.   The Cobra pan works because the carb is sealed against the
> underside of
> the hood, and 100% of the engine's air intake is coming through that hood
> scoop, from outside.   On a Pantera, a cold air box with side scoops
> achieves
> the same thing.   But putting a setup such as you describe on a Pantera,
> without any other modifications, wouldn't achieve a darn thing, because the
> engine would still be forced to breathe the air that's around it, and that
> air
> is flowing from underneath, past the floor of the apparatus, and then into
> the engine.
>
> Or so it seems to me....
>
> Mike
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