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Originally Posted by sierra
So the ram effect is negligible. What is important is cool, stable air without restriction to the throttle body requirements. This intake looks able to deliver that[for its part] whereas an intake placed directly into the incoming air is in danger of an erratic supply from turbulence, unless it's placed in clear air as in F1 cars.
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Originally Posted by Admiral Ballsy
Not in both directions. Sure, you can restrict flow upstream of the TB, but you can't increase it beyond the native characteristics of the TB itself. You're not going to get any more air into the system that you'll get with nothing in front of TB at all.
Venturies affect speed, but not flow. It's like electricity - you can increase voltage, you can increase current, but you can't do both at the same time; power out can't exceed power in.
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Originally Posted by Anaxilus
No, not the manifold, obviously the intake 'duct' in question here. Everything in the chain affects the system. The reason I ask is because you can increase volume and cause reduced velocity which leads to loss of low-end responsiveness for high-end gain. Not dissimilar to dropping an oversized carb on a big block. You get big numbers but terrible throttle. It's not just a matter of volume being pressurized, this why venturis are employed, to increase speed. If you mean you don't think it will matter much because the butterfly and everything after it is the same, then I get your meaning.
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Response isn't measured by horsepower in the upper range. Are you saying all variations of air filter box design apart from OE are snake oil? The media is not the only restriction in the chain.
Anyway, I guess I'd like to see the flowbench numbers on this product, if there are any.
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This got a bit technical for me, but what I get is the only possible benefit is getting more, cool air for the car allowing for more tuning?
I have been looking a lot at intakes since I want to stay n/a. I was originally thinking trd, but now was wondering about this, a drop in (which I have) and a silicone inlet tube. I don't care about peak numbers but more about the power curve. It's my DD that gets the more than occasional canyon run and will be seeing more auto-x time pretty soon. No hpde.