Your intake manifold. It takes in air and sends it to your engine's combustion chamber. This is basically the start of the combustion process. After all, you can't have combustion without air.
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How Porsche perfected intake manifolds
When Porsche designs an intake manifold, they do things differently. While most car companies try to increase pressure of air ...
Porsche often does things backwards—just look at the 911, keeper of the rear-engine flame. But that philosophy extends to smaller things, too, as Jason Fenske of the YouTube channel Engineering ...
In a naturally aspirated engine, as air comes in through the intake and passes through the throttle body, you've traditionally had two setups for what happens next. Using longer, narrower intake ...
OBJECTIVE: Wet flow, pressure excursions, port volume, runner length, plenum volume—all these figure into an engine's overall efficiency. But there's more… Sometimes theory is neat, but sometimes it ...
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If you are any kind of gearhead or have worked with engines for even a little while, then you are likely familiar with the rules of thumb when it comes to intake manifolds and horsepower. The main ...
Last month we showed what gains were available from three aftermarket Three-Valve intake manifolds in naturally aspirated trim. This month we're going to try the same three intakes, only now we'll see ...
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We’ve all seen infographics depicting how an engine operates, from old-school animations to the latest in computer-generated graphics that show us how every internal part plays a crucial role. As good ...
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