Also,
Toyota developed a telescopic runner for their F1 engine that ran up and down their sort of "Air Bucket" (they had individual throttle bodies but the plenum was still kinda there, just with...
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Also,
Toyota developed a telescopic runner for their F1 engine that ran up and down their sort of "Air Bucket" (they had individual throttle bodies but the plenum was still kinda there, just with...
All I can say is good luck, the idea of variable intake manifolds is awesome but it's the sealing that kills them.
UWA did two, in 04 and 05. One had awful sealing and good flow paths, the other...
Ground effects don't require anything to actually touch the ground although it would be practically impossible to make a skirted car that doesn't actually make contact.
Somewhere I like think Ron...
The easy way to think of it is essentially wave breaks up ducts (pipes, tubes, passages, volumes etc) into short segments.
These pieces each have the fluid mechanics equations solved across them...
Ferrari V8's have an interesting system, 2 plenums each connected to one bank of the V. There is a throttle body for each plenum to atmosphere and a third throttle connecting each of the plenums...
I've always taken the comparisons to UWA and a mini F1 team as compliment.
Our chassis team uses marine grade carbon that some of the European teams wouldn't piss on, to make our molds they spend...