I think you are quite wrong in you assesment that intakes only offer a cool sound on a hemi... I am pretty sure alot of members on here, backed up by dyno runs would argue that they do in fact offer a performance gain as well.
I will agree with you on your point that the flow of air into the throttle body will not be laminar (its Reynold's number will in fact be a bit over 20,000), but I don't think any of the systems involving fluid flow on your truck are. Obviously exhaust is out of the question, coolant I would be highly skeptical of (with the obvious exception of being in the radiator itself), and at best, fuel flow is probably laminar in the main line headed towards your motor...
You certainly can't make the arguement that a turbo, or supercharger creates laminar flow at the TB unless you have a ridiculously large hydraulic diameter for all of your tubing (which would be inefficient space wise).
As you could see in the original post I introduced to topic of pressure with not only maybe, but MAYBE, because I didn't want the focus of this thread to be based on opinions about how infeasible it is to generate pressure with ram air.
In response though the volume of air the the hemi draws at 4500 RPM is in fact half of the volume that would pass through the largest area of my rams at 60 MPH. Obviously this is not a perfect world so losses due to flow characteristics are to be expected, but probably not on that scale.
While it is true that I probably won't generate any positive relative pressure at the throttle body, I would be happy to bet vast sums of money that the relative pressure at the TB will be higher with the ram system in place, and at 60 MPH than it would be without it there. This means that because of the rams my Hemi would be breathing better, thus generating more power.
Your Witness. jk lol
) The 4th Gen has an excellent free flowing design to it already, and a huge deep filter with lots of surface area.
