Morning Mr Chips
Assuming you're talking about the silver storm in the gallery
http://www.abercon.co.uk/vtr1000/displa ... Revolution VTR with ram air
As standard the Storm sucks what air it requires into its airbox through a little snorkel at the front. The ducts by the headlight are cosmetic/cooling.
However the one in the pic has a RAM air system (moriwaki I think) which uses these ducts to force feed the airbox. Obviously the faster you go the more air is rammed into the airbox and the more power you get
HOWEVER
It is not just a case of bolting these tubes on coz you need a sealed airbox to make use of this pressure increase and the fuelling needs tweaking to match which is a bit of a bitch to set up.
WHY?
Scenario 1) You're tooling along at 40mph there's gonna be naff all ram air effect so you don't need that much fuel.
Scenario 2) You're doing 140mph there'll be a lot of air, so more fuel required.
If you setup the carbs for scenario 2 they'll be way too rich in scenario 1 and vice-versa
Hope this helps
Ben
