Re: Airbox Info

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In a message dated 27-Jun-01 10:42:52 Central Daylight Time, pmm@igtc.com 
writes:

<< Actually other variables influence this heavily as well.  Things like 
whether the flow is laminar or turbulent and the temperature of the air. It's 
not as simple as you may think. >>

I addressed the air temperature issue. And I know that turbulent air is no 
better, actually worse than laminar flow. The scenarios given are of little 
importance in our applications - the airbox is not noticeably 
positive-pressurized at any time, and the original layout of the air ducting 
in our cars is hardly conducive of laminar airflow to begin with. Ideally, we 
should be drawing our charge air from the grille area (or the cowl, a la 
muscle cars of old), but we're sucking it from inside the fender. Hence, 
whether you drill the side, or hog out the front, it's not going to make a 
big difference. Our engines don't live in the 7-10k rev band like that of a 
Honda, so it's not like we're going to be screwing up the power band.

Cheers,

Dave
'88 Jetta coupe
'98 JettaGLX

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