Long Intake Runners - What are the Benefits?

[m.spakovskis@post.skynet.lt (Marius Spakovskis)]

hi,
check out this site:
http://www.autospeed.com/A_0122/page1.html

I also believe that oettinger makes stuff that way..


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Berk" <tberk@mindspring.com>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:57 AM
Subject: Long Intake Runners - What are the Benefits?


> 
> It has always bothered the symmetricist in me that the early VW motors
> came with an intake manifold that had the intake to one side. 
> Then the cross flow heads came out with eaqual length runners, each to
> it's own cylinder. 
> 
> (1. Without a 16v here to consult I'm forgetting how much it leans one
> way or the other so I'm leaving it out, sides- I don't have one of those
> anyway.)
> [2. This is a problem w/ NOS distribution so I hear.]
> 
> In any case I got to thinking that a low profile (to clear the Mk1 hood)
> but eaqual long tube intake might be a fun project. Aplication is the JH
> head I have at the moment; basically any rear intake design 8 valve.
> 
> Can any fluid dynamic authorities speak to why long tubes (vs those
> Badger 5 throttles w/ a shorter neck) make for what kind of power?
> 
> tia,
> TBerk
> 
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