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Gardus@Supersprint · 11-12-2012, 01:16 PM

@Dimman you can either change the shape/lenght/diameter of the intake or you can introduce resonator or other geomery variants to send a pressure wave at the desired rev range...
Are you testing me?
@Danzzt231 I used to have a Honda S2000 in 2002, so I know what you mean. I also used to have a Clio RS, which had a much flatter torque curve, and it was much easier to stay in the "good" power band. This engine seems to give you enough torque to have some guts while driving slow in high gears, but it's nice during spirited driving, so instead on concentrating on filling the "valley" we should think about incresing horsepower in the upper range.

This has revealed to be much harder than we thought, unless you work on the headers there's no way you get more than 3-5 hp.

I'm also really skeptic about intakes, on our tests they usually give less power than the stock setup, especially on NA cars.

11-12-2012, 01:16 PM	#39
Gardus@Supersprint Banned Join Date: Nov 2011 Drives: Clio TCE Location: Mantova - Italy Posts: 494 Thanks: 17 Thanked 154 Times in 70 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	@Dimman you can either change the shape/lenght/diameter of the intake or you can introduce resonator or other geomery variants to send a pressure wave at the desired rev range... Are you testing me? @Danzzt231 I used to have a Honda S2000 in 2002, so I know what you mean. I also used to have a Clio RS, which had a much flatter torque curve, and it was much easier to stay in the "good" power band. This engine seems to give you enough torque to have some guts while driving slow in high gears, but it's nice during spirited driving, so instead on concentrating on filling the "valley" we should think about incresing horsepower in the upper range. This has revealed to be much harder than we thought, unless you work on the headers there's no way you get more than 3-5 hp. I'm also really skeptic about intakes, on our tests they usually give less power than the stock setup, especially on NA cars.