Air Intake System - Corsa Race Car

The Astra VXR engine transplant into our Corsa SRI race car is slowly moving forward. Attention has turned to the cold air intake system. We have decided to use the Pipercross Viper VFC244 sealed unit cold air intake. The unit will be tucked away down inside the nearside front wing away from the heat of the engine bay. It will draw cold air in through the nearside front fog light aperture.
Using 'velocity air force', the Viper air intake directs cold air directly into the engine. The cold air feed takes air from the area of cold, dense air straight into the Viper's inlet, swirling it through a unique Pipercross reverse-flow air filter contained within a carbon fibre heat shield, then into a ram pipe to increase the air pressure before feeding it into the induction system.
The carbon fibre heat shield protects the air charge from under bonnet heat keeping it cool -and therefore more dense -thus introducing more oxygen into the combustion mixture,giving increased power.
The reverse flow technology filter and 150mm ram pipe make use of the physical phenomenon of air tending to move towards surface area's, creating more air flow on the edge rather than in the centre of the inlet. The unique design of the filter cone and the inlet 'tune' the moving air flow to increase its speed and therefore its pressure maximising the laminar air flow into the engine, again resulting
in increased power.