The information I have here, says a plenum should be several times larger than ONE CYLINDERS displacement. So I guess a 2 -2.5L plenum for a 2L engine would do just nicely.
Cheers Daniel Kroehn ----- Original Message ----- From: "E Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: RE: AirBoxes!!!!! ! > Mark, > I believe that would make the 5.9 litre Chryser airbox about 14.75 litres. > If you check out the airboxes on group A V8's I think they would have no > problem matching that capacity. This would be about one and a half plastic > buckets in volume. Air speed is not a problem in an air box. The main > function in plenum design is to remove restrictions to air flow and ensure > that the air does not have to make sudden changes of direction. Air speed > becomes important when fuel is entering the system near the injectors or in > the choke area of a carburettor. The air speed needs to be high and flow > laminar, so the mixing of fuel is optimised and maintained without fuel > dropout and puddling. > > Cheers > Feral Errol > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.datrats.com.au/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of mark krawczuk > Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 10:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AirBoxes!!!!! ! > > hi, my brother is doing a efi setup ona 360 chrysler, and the guy from > CAPA and MOTEC both said to have a air box about the size of cubic inches > of the engine. > to have a box 2.5 times the engine volume would have to absolutely > humungus, on this type of engine.. i totally disagree that haviing a box > cannot be oversize ( e.g "the air intake system cannot be oversized" > (pp120).). what about > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
