Linda is purrrrty, but...

[BigFrog]

Does anyone know what these fancy Mopar coverings are? One section has an exterior air filter on it. My buddy has two Ram 1500's also and it's not on either one of his. We're all scratching our heads trying to figure it out. It's a 2016 Ram 1500 Big Horn.

 

[G-Ride990]

That little filter is where the stock PCV breather would connect to. But since you have a catch can installed you don't need to use it. Personally, I would have just put a cap over the port rather than run a little filter like that.

 

[BigFrog]

But what the heck is the whole setup called? It doesn't look stock. It came like this when I bought it. Couldn't pass up the deal, only 40k miles on it.

 

[pacofortacos]

It's an aftermarket cold air kit - guessing mopar.
The blue engine cover is just a painted engine cover - stock is grayish black if I remember correctly (not something I pay attention to lol )

Even with a catch can, the breather hose should be hooked up or at least letting filtered air into the engine from somewhere. The breather is to prevent either a positive or negative pressure in the crankcase, without it, you can get negative pressure via the PCV or positive pressure via blowby - depending on engine condition and load.

And your catch can needs to be drained every so many miles.

 

[G-Ride990]

I had to look at mine again to remember. I still have my breather hooked up there... not sure what's going on with yours. My bad! Haven't looked at mine for a while.

 

[GTyankee]

engine covers can be seen in some Dodge Parts display area, but many companies make them




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[crash68]

Does anyone know what these fancy Mopar coverings are?

That filter setup can work in conjunction with the Ram Air kit for the Sport hood.

2009-2024 Mopar Ram Air Kit 82214741AB | Mopar eStore

2009-2024 Mopar Ram Air Kit 82214741AB

store.mopar.com

A factory Sport style hood looks like this:

The air intakes we're fake unless you added the above kit.

 

[Jwithing]

Yup, that's the mopar brand CAI. You can buy the 82214741AB kit to make it a functional ram air with the sport hood. Ypu can also but a knockoff kit on ebay for $100 vs $350 for the mopar branded one. Of anyone is running the mopar one, or either, I'm curious if there's anything to help prevent water from getting in. Looks like the mopar one may have some sort of pad to go after the hood vent.

Honestly, for $100, I'm tempted to order one of the knockoff ones and seeing if I can rig it up to work on my 6.4 intake manifold with the AFE intake. It's in about the same position and the afe top is completely plexi, so it may work great cutting that out to work. Hmmmm.....

 

[Wild one]

Yup, that's the mopar brand CAI. You can buy the 82214741AB kit to make it a functional ram air with the sport hood. Ypu can also but a knockoff kit on ebay for $100 vs $350 for the mopar branded one. Of anyone is running the mopar one, or either, I'm curious if there's anything to help prevent water from getting in. Looks like the mopar one may have some sort of pad to go after the hood vent.

Honestly, for $100, I'm tempted to order one of the knockoff ones and seeing if I can rig it up to work on my 6.4 intake manifold with the AFE intake. It's in about the same position and the afe top is completely plexi, so it may work great cutting that out to work. Hmmmm.....

I can't find the pics or video anymore,but Ram had the wind tunnel tests for the 4th Gens posted somewhere awhile ago,and the scoops aren't actually going to add a ram air effect,as they sit to low,and are actually in a dead air space. Ma Mopar already knew that way back in the 60's though,when they did wind tunnel tests ,the first couple of inches of air over the hood is stagnate air. I can find the wind tunnel tests on the 5th Gens,but it looks like the 4th Gen wind tunnel tests have disappeared.

2019 Ram 1500 Wind Tunnel Testing.

Marc Babich, aerothermal manager 2019 Ram 1500, talks about the aerodynamic testing that went into the building of the all-new 2019 Ram 1500.The all-new 2019...

www.youtube.com

 

[Jwithing]

I can't find the pics or video anymore,but Ram had the wind tunnel tests for the 4th Gens posted somewhere awhile ago,and the scoops aren't actually going to add a ram air effect,as they sit to low,and are actually in a dead air space. Ma Mopar already knew that way back in the 60's though,when they did wind tunnel tests ,the first couple of inches of air over the hood is stagnate air. I can find the wind tunnel tests on the 5th Gens,but it looks like the 4th Gen wind tunnel tests have disappeared.

2019 Ram 1500 Wind Tunnel Testing.

Marc Babich, aerothermal manager 2019 Ram 1500, talks about the aerodynamic testing that went into the building of the all-new 2019 Ram 1500.The all-new 2019...

www.youtube.com

Well that sucks. Looks like most of the air does flow a bit higher. However, at the 2:15 mark, it looks like the air is flowing pretty close to the hood for a little bit. I'm wondering if any other external variables may provide slightly different results even if temporarily. Thinking alternating wind directions and gusts. Probably not enough to make any real difference I'd imagine. I wonder if there's some sort of cheap airflow sensor that I could rig up behind the plastic vent location after popping it out and just monitor it through various driving conditions to see what kind of readings it may or may not get.

 

[Jwithing]

May just be better off putting something like this behind the front grill through the forward facing part of the air box lol

https://www.amazon.com/Intake-2720903582-Replacement-Mercedes-Benz-Housing/dp/B08H564D6V/ref=asc_df_B08H564D6V/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=507600687300&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6337382169801050650&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9022938&hvtargid=pla-1240825483892&psc=1

 

[Wild one]

Well that sucks. Looks like most of the air does flow a bit higher. However, at the 2:15 mark, it looks like the air is flowing pretty close to the hood for a little bit. I'm wondering if any other external variables may provide slightly different results even if temporarily. Thinking alternating wind directions and gusts. Probably not enough to make any real difference I'd imagine. I wonder if there's some sort of cheap airflow sensor that I could rig up behind the plastic vent location after popping it out and just monitor it through various driving conditions to see what kind of readings it may or may not get.

I wished i could find the wind tunnel test on a 4th Gen,as it was noticiably worse when it came to airflow over the hood,they had a good 4" of dead air space.They managed to clean up the airflow a fair bit on the 5th Gens in comparision to the 4th Gens

 

[Wild one]

May just be better off putting something like this behind the front grill through the forward facing part of the air box lol

https://www.amazon.com/Intake-2720903582-Replacement-Mercedes-Benz-Housing/dp/B08H564D6V/ref=asc_df_B08H564D6V/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=507600687300&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6337382169801050650&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9022938&hvtargid=pla-1240825483892&psc=1

Somebody did use the Mercedes ducts,there was a thread or a couple posts about using them a year or 2 back on here. I ran another ram air duct to the front on my truck,and when we had it on the dyno,it amazed me on how much airflow it actually sucked through the extra duct,i threw a shop rag up against the duct when the truck went to full throttle on the dyno,and it actually sucked the rag right into the airbox,and that was only a duct i'd made out of 3" dryer ducting.You can see it in behind the oil filters in this pic,it was by no stretch as good as some of the track intakes guys are using now,but it did what i wanted it to do at the time.

 

[Jwithing]

Somebody did use the Mercedes ducts,there was a thread or a couple posts about using them a year or 2 back on here. I ran another ram air duct to the front on my truck,and when we had it on the dyno,it amazed me on how much airflow it actually sucked through the extra duct,i threw a shop rag up against the duct when the truck went to full throttle on the dyno,and it actually sucked the rag right into the airbox,and that was only a duct i'd made out of 3" dryer ducting.You can see it in behind the oil filters in this pic,it was by no stretch as good as some of the track intakes guys are using now,but it did what i wanted it to do at the time.

Hmmm, I'm wondering if I could make something dual purpose here. I've been meaning to block off the Trans cooler since I'm running 120's in the winter with the thermo bypass. Maybe I can fab an air grabber to box up infront of the cooler.

Did you dyno with the ducting in place and blocked off to test a difference? I know we wouldn't be talking anything earth shattering here, just curious.

 

[Wild one]

Hmmm, I'm wondering if I could make something dual purpose here. I've been meaning to block off the Trans cooler since I'm running 120's in the winter with the thermo bypass. Maybe I can fab an air grabber to box up infront of the cooler.

Did you dyno with the ducting in place and blocked off to test a difference? I know we wouldn't be talking anything earth shattering here, just curious.

No the rag test was more to see if it was actually sucking any air through the forward facing duct,and it surprised me at how fast it sucked the rag into the airbox. I had an Air Raid box on the truck that i modded by adding a lid to close it off,and the duct just fed into the side of the box. You can see the top and the duct a bit in this pic,i also header wrapped the intake tube,but that was probably a bit overkill and i can't say the header wrap actually did anything.