By now hopefully you all remember that my daughter was responsible for naming our race car Big Red. I mean it made sense, big block, big tires, and she was red. When my wife came in the shop and saw the completed hood closed over the top of the induction tubes she said it looked like a bull and we should call it “El Toro”. It was a great idea but a year or so too late. We already named the old girl and bought way too much merchandise to change names. On a side note, it never ceases to amaze me how many people think it is a turbo car when the hood is closed, but then notice the two CO2 purge tubes by the opening of the cowl and think it is a nitrous car. Listening to people dispute that is the perfect segue for me to share the entire concept and work that went into creating it. The engine and engine bay was not yet fully assembled, but I needed to get those induction tubes cut so I could see what kind of real estate this was going to consume. I used a lot of painter’s tape that day joining those tubes together and making it all work.
This is how it all turned out. Not only does it function, but it looks pretty cool as well. systems required serious engineering along with a host of custom hood and body modifications making it not viable for the backyard mechanic to fabricate in their driveway. So because necessity is the mother of all invention, the introduction of bolton cold air kits became the craze. It was a simple concept carried forward from old school experimentation with modern day engineering. Fresh
and cooler air was brought into the front of a vehicle away from high under hood temps. It was then directed into an air box that housed a high-flow oversized air filter. From the filter it was sent directly to the carb/throttle body via a closed circuit
tube. This air box and closed-circuit tube allowed the maximum amount of air flow while still fitting within the factory engine bay. Fast forward to modern times, and this technology has evolved into absolute perfection. There is a cold air
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