Discussion
After trying several air intakes solution on road and race Monaro's we decided to start from scratch and create and Airbox/cold air funnel that works!
We are planning to have the first Carbon-Fibre unit ready within 2 weeks.
Does anyone know of any other units that work and are sensibly priced???
We are planning to have the first Carbon-Fibre unit ready within 2 weeks.
Does anyone know of any other units that work and are sensibly priced???
They are so pricey that I made my own for my HSV GTS. The air box already comes with a great big hole in it and so I fed a large bore flexible pipe from this behind the headlight and down to the spotlight (which I took out). Worked well for a home made job but went too fast on first run and it ripped out. Needs to be properly secured but would work well then, especially as the area around the spotlight is funnel shaped and helps to ram more in.
Just giving this some thought actually and thinking outside the box. The terminology might not be right, and the idea a little crazy, but bare with me.
Would it break the race rules to use compressed air to feed the intake? The air would be cold, and you could have a fair amount of it avaliable if you ran the compressor while braking.
The way that I am looking at it the main problem with a supercharger is that it sucks air in, compresses it, (which introduces heat and hotter air) to the system. Now, the way that I was thinking it could work is that you could split that system up, in keeping the heat seperated from the engine. On one side you have a compressor (which is compressing the air), which feeds a second tank at lower pressure, (i.e by the second tank being a lower pressure, you don't have heated air, but rather cooler air). This then gets injected into the engine.
This could also introduce another opportunity, in that you could inject air straight into the engine, something like LPG possibly. But that would definitely make a big job for the design of the engine.
Anyhow, just so thoughts on how to get more air into the engine. Have often thought that would be the way to get a couple more BHP out of an engine.
>> Edited by raggyman on Tuesday 26th July 15:26
Would it break the race rules to use compressed air to feed the intake? The air would be cold, and you could have a fair amount of it avaliable if you ran the compressor while braking.
The way that I am looking at it the main problem with a supercharger is that it sucks air in, compresses it, (which introduces heat and hotter air) to the system. Now, the way that I was thinking it could work is that you could split that system up, in keeping the heat seperated from the engine. On one side you have a compressor (which is compressing the air), which feeds a second tank at lower pressure, (i.e by the second tank being a lower pressure, you don't have heated air, but rather cooler air). This then gets injected into the engine.
This could also introduce another opportunity, in that you could inject air straight into the engine, something like LPG possibly. But that would definitely make a big job for the design of the engine.
Anyhow, just so thoughts on how to get more air into the engine. Have often thought that would be the way to get a couple more BHP out of an engine.
>> Edited by raggyman on Tuesday 26th July 15:26
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