Intake riser
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Intake riser
By bending up custom fuel lines, doing custom PCV routing and switching to WRX power steering and coolant crossover, Ive given myself just enough room to run the intake for the turbo under my EJ20G manifold, but its really cutting it close, and the piping is going to rub like crazy.
If I took my intake gaskets to a fabrication shop, and had them cut me out some 3/8 inch thick aluminum spacers to match the gaskets, put a gasket above it and below it, and used slightly longer bolts, does anyone see any reason for something to go wrong?
Id go higher, but Im worried about interference with the hood.
If I took my intake gaskets to a fabrication shop, and had them cut me out some 3/8 inch thick aluminum spacers to match the gaskets, put a gasket above it and below it, and used slightly longer bolts, does anyone see any reason for something to go wrong?
Id go higher, but Im worried about interference with the hood.
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well some of the local club guys who started a small company called grimmspeed have started fabricating phenolic spacers for 02+ turbo motors (using new gaskets on the block and intake side of the spacer) to reduce heat transfer from block to intake manifold with no issues. So i dont see why using aluminum spacers would make any difference in performance for what your trying to do. Though I dont know enough about flow dynamics to tell you if the minute extra intake manifold volume is going to affect anything.
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The optimum rpm for intake pulse tuning will drop slightly. Can't see any problems.
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I don't see how the EC would make a difference to the pulses since the distance/time they have to travel from the intake valve to the plenum and back to the intake valve for when it opens is fixed. Do you mean tuning the engine to optimize it? I don't think 1/2" or so will make much difference and you're running a turbo anyway, so pulse tuning in the intake is not really important.
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The pulses from the head to the plenum will be most powerful. Pulses from the throttle body back or forward would have little to no power. When a pressure wave hits a different volume, it reflects back. In this case, from the intake valve to the plenum. It's how high rise manifolds old muscle car guys brag about work - the longer runners mean the pulses take longer to travel the greater distance out to the carb and back to the intake valve, so the engine speed where the returning pulse would best help pull air into the combustion chamber through the opened valve for that cylinder's next cycle would be lower. The reverse is also true, with shorter runners offering their minor 'supercharged' help at a higher engine speed.
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I wonder if moving the injector away from the back of the valve will have any noticable effect. Will it focus the spray pattern on the opposite runner wall? I doubt it would have much affect at higher velocities but maybe at idle?
Just a thought.
Gary
Just a thought.
Gary
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i ended up doing something similar.
but fitting a v3 sti manifold instead so can use the silicon under intake. need to swap a couple of wires on the TPS and done. should make some better gains, especially concidering the EJ20G intake manifold is an abortion of an intake compared with the v3. you'd be lucky to get 2 fat fingers next to each other into the ports. the v3 are massive.. would be good to get some flow testing, but have no idea where.
but fitting a v3 sti manifold instead so can use the silicon under intake. need to swap a couple of wires on the TPS and done. should make some better gains, especially concidering the EJ20G intake manifold is an abortion of an intake compared with the v3. you'd be lucky to get 2 fat fingers next to each other into the ports. the v3 are massive.. would be good to get some flow testing, but have no idea where.
.. Dave