Critique this Intake Manifold
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Critique this Intake Manifold
A few months ago I had an intake manifold made. Rob at Flipside Customs based it on the one he's currently offering. It has a larger plenum and a custom flange to allow me to use a specific throttle body. I would like to hear some honest feedback on what others think of the manifold itself as well as the logic behind those thoughts. Thanks.
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Disclaimer: I am no expert in fluid dynamics, etc.
But, it looks like cyl#1 would be starved for air with most of it going to the cylinders furthest from the throttle body . This is just by going with how *I* imagine the air flowing. I think runner#1 is too close to the TB.
I went through the same thing while making my own manifold. That's one of the reasons I had the velocity stack protrude into the 'flow'. But, who knows, yours might be awesome while mine completely sucks...
--Ferdi
But, it looks like cyl#1 would be starved for air with most of it going to the cylinders furthest from the throttle body . This is just by going with how *I* imagine the air flowing. I think runner#1 is too close to the TB.
I went through the same thing while making my own manifold. That's one of the reasons I had the velocity stack protrude into the 'flow'. But, who knows, yours might be awesome while mine completely sucks...
--Ferdi
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I would like to see a fluid dynamics expert on the subject because I will be starting my mani build soon. I would have to go with ftjandra on this one, from all I have read up on the subject and talked to others that make them as well.
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Im fairly certain the reason behind that manifold is to have fairly equal length runners, with an intake it must have equal length runners to have equal distribution to all cylinders, while this is a good thing on the exhaust side it is a must on the intake side. also exhaust manifolds do not need a plenum, intakes do.