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very very nicely done. But I say there's better to be found:

 

http://www.theoldone.com/components/intake_manifold/cfintakemanifold2.jpg

http://motortrend.com/autoshows/coverage/112_0011_sema07_g.jpg

http://www.full-race.com/catalog/images/supra%202.jpg

I need a good shot of a Maserati 8CTF intake and exhaust manifolds. :cool:

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Looks good Scott, but fot that money, I would talk to Tinman and see if he would be willing to build you one and what it would cost. I also don't know that I wouldn't have teh top throats have a smoother transision into the runner. The 90 degree turn the air would have to take might slow flow down a bit, where a funnel shape and a raised and radiused lip around the top of the runner, on the plenum floor might work a bit better, offering a smoother transision. Figuring that if you are either fabbing it yourself or having it done, why not go the extra mile. Hell I might even be inclined to have a twist machined into the runner wall, promoting a swirl effect as the air flows down the runner. If it could be done with sufficent results, the air as it hit the back of the valve spinning would possibly have enough centrificial (sp) force to be thrown out into the combustion chamber allowing for quicker cylinder filling than hitting it straight on and needing to slow down and turn out around the valve. Thing is that I don't know how it would effect fuel atomization. I figure that there is a pretty fine line between enough twist to get the air around teh valve head, and too much twist causing the fuel to come out of atomization and be thrown against the cylinder wall. With EFI, the atomization may be sufficent that it wouldn't matter, but I honestly don't know if that is the case or not. I also don't know if it would haev any pronounced effect in performance on anything less than a max effort engine that you were trying to squeeze every last horse out of.

 

If the great doctor of fluid dynamics happens to red this and shed some more light on it I figure that Scott would appericate it.

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