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Author Subject: Inlet Manifold Design
sam1

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Post #1
Has anyone ever tried cutting down the trumpets inside the inlet manifold so they are flush with the plenum wall?

I'm currently doing my first xu10j4rs rebuild and was surprised by the manifold design. I imagine it is designed to improve mid range and bottom end performance??? but it would be interesting to see how much top end power would be gained by making it less restrictive.
Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 18:37
phillipm

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Post #2
None, and you'll loose a big chunk of midrange too.

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Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 18:41
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Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 18:43
sam1

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ok, thanks

clen666 wrote:


reading through this now. I did a search but did not come across that thread
Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 18:52
lewisdmz

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I thought trumpets are vital for "getting air through stuff".
Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 19:04
sam1

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Post #6
They are important, but are they occupying more than 50% of the space (edit: cross section area) in the plenum. From reading the wonderfully detailed thread above it seems that this mod has not so far been proven to work on a standard engine...
Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 19:47
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Because the airflow near the wall of a plenum is dire, and you've also got less area for the edge of the trumpets to draw from, so higher acceleration of the airflow and lower dynamic pressure at the intakes, which interferes with the resonance. Might work if you could lengthen the whole system first but it would still only come into its own at high rpms

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Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 20:37
sam1

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Post #8
makes sense. looks like improving the design would require significant R&D input then, trial and error, CAD, flow bench...
Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 21:57
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Post #9
yup!

just fit throttle bodies Thumbs up (with a decent manifold, not the off the shelf jenvey/maniflow/omex one either)

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Posted 3rd Feb 2012 at 22:01

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