Re: Re: TB SPACER

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@texas.net)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 08:21:30 EDT


You're not mistaken Grady...I agree as well.

- Bernd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Grady Ogburn" <jgo@uswest.net>
Subject: Re: DML: Re: TB SPACER

> The K&N improves airflow.
>
> 1. The resistance to airflow is reduced, therefore the engine spends less
> power pulling air into its cylinders.
> 2. The air entering the TB is cooler (when the filter element is isolated
> from the hot air in the engine compartment), and therefore denser. More
> molecules of air per cubic inch. More combustible O2.
>
> The only other way to get more air into a given cylinder aside from
cooling
> it is to compress it, unless I'm forgetting basic physics.
>
> Think about the intake stroke -- unless you're forcing air, the piston
> (fixed diameter), travelling the length of the stroke (fixed distance)
> through the cylinder will pull a fixed volume of air. How would placing
an
> extra volume of air *above* that mechanism increase the amount of air that
> the piston can pull into the cylinder?
>
> The modified *path* could have some effect on flow or maybe fuel mixing,
but
> on the volume of air? I don't think so.
>
> Grady Ogburn
> '98 Sport CC 4x4
> 5.2l, 5 Speed
> Mesa Headers & Cat
> K&N FIPK, JET PCM
> Gibson/MagnaFlow "FrankenPipe" Exhaust
> Leer Topper
>



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