At 09:36 PM 5/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-05-22 16:59:24 EDT, you write:
>
><< I understand polishing and knife edge, but what is meant by
> "boxing it off"? (Also, what is a plenum, and why would you want
> to reduce its volume?)
> >>
>
>Its kinda hard for me to explain without paper and a pencil but Ill try!! The
>plenum is the chamber that the air travels through before going into the
>appropriate intake. Now on the magnums there is almost to much space. The
>intake inlets sit about 1" from the bottom of the Plenum. So what I did was
>cut the inlets about 3" farther up the plenum and then raised, Or boxed, the
>floor of the plenum by templating the area and welding aluminium plate in.
>Then I filled little holes and bumpy spots with Devcon, an aluminium putty. I
>hope that made sense, its in a Mopar Muscle article from 97 I think it may
>have been the Feb issue. It basically gets your intake to suck harder and get
>more compressed air which = HP
>
Wow! Sounds involved. :-) Thanks for the info; I'll see if I can
find that article. One question though; is this in the throttle body, or
the intake manifold itself?
-Jon-
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