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Originally Posted by Pscylo
Now that I have a slow point at work.
I apologize for the obvious flaw in my initial approach, while simply expressing my personal opinion, being emotionally detached; I failed to take a moment to consider how someone else might interpret the comments, as I was in the middle of 4 different tasks.
I also never said it wouldn't work or be effective, I just stated that there are inefficiencies to the design, but honestly...those are present in every design I have seen so far.
A big issue with this setup, aside from turbulence, however minor inside the air box, is where the air will be coming from. This engine bay runs very hot. Currently I live in Phoenix, lately it has been 115ish during the days, which puts the engine bay at or over 200 at times, depending on the circumstances. The majority of the air pulled into this setup would be from that engine bay, 60-80 degrees warmer over all than the air outside.
Obviously, without hands on I can't make an informed desicion, just the educated s.w.a.g. Thus, I originally just threw my opinion up there.
I am an enthusiast, just like everyone else here. I want the community to have access to the best possible setups for our cars. If I see an issue, I will call it like I see it, as most of us will. If I was still back east where my shop is, I would have put something together, but I am not. I had to hastily move for a job, and leave it all behind.
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You could have said that the first go around. However, you missed the point that this is still in the R&D phase. In our post above you did read that the system will have a heat shield around the filter and will be getting most of its air from the outside factory location using the factory snorkel. Heat is going to be a non issue.
For people asking about heat soak issues with the aluminum air box: ask yourself this when you are cruising at a speed as low as 1500 RPM the engine might be producing about 20HP meaning it will be consuming roughly about 2lbs/min of air, change to volume, we get 5788 gallons/min or roughly 774 cubic feet/min. Yes that is a lot of volume getting sucked down by the engine every minute, ok, let's convert to seconds: 96.5gal/sec or 12.9 cu.ft/sec. That's a lot of air, the moral of the story, even during the lightest load driving conditions the air traveling through the system will NOT have enough time to get heat soaked. Now imagine how much air is passing through the engine at full load, yup A LOT.
Well been a very long day today, good night everyone.