I wonder if these would work better with a carb or TB fuel injection. The spinning
air would keep the fuel in suspension better. With the SPFI in the Magnum Daks
it's just a restriction in the air flow.
Doug
Marty Galyean wrote:
> With regards to 'air spinning intake devices' -- seems to me that any time you
> get air spinning as it goes through a tube or enclosed space you are going to
> increase
> friction between the air mass and the walls of the space simply because of
> centrifugal force.
>
> This would perhaps be countered, or reigned in, somewhat by the vacuum in the
> center much like a tornado but I can't see how this changes the basic fact
> that more,
> denser air is scrubbing against the walls of the tube or container. Either
> way it just puts more load on the vacuum and thus the engine.
>
> This would seem to lower V.E. or volumetric efficiency; more work to move same
> amount of air.
>
> But maybe some intakes are so oddly designed that spinning air has less
> turbulence than non but that seems fundamentally broken to me, not sure why
> other than
> what I already wrote.
>
> "Bernd D. Ratsch" wrote:
>
> > Looks almost identical to the "Tornado" (http://www.tornadoair.com/). I
> > actually tried the Tornado and found that it caused a restriction in the
> > intake tube and didn't give me (or my wife's Jeep) any more power or better
> > fuel economy. Don't bother with it...just my opinion.
> >
> > - Bernd
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of MLytle96@aol.com
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 4:54 AM
> > To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> > Subject: DML: spiralmax
> >
> > Anyone ever tried one of these......??
> > www.spiralmax.com
> >
> > j
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