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- Subject: resonant chambers
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 03:59:37 GMT
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- I brought this subject up once before, but I think it vanished during
- one of chaos' mail snafus.
-
- A friend in England is running a sprint car class that uses
- limited-modification 2000 OHC Fords. The main problem is carburetion -
- the dinky Weber-Holley 5200 flows barely enough air for 5000 RPM, while
- the valvetrain is good to 7000, and (sob) cams are unlimited under the
- rules. Alas, there's simply not enough airflow to feed a high RPM
- motor, even playing with trick ultra-long-inlet-duration cams. I
- recommended he run a cam peaking around 5000 and running the engine down
- where it could breathe rather than fighting it. He says that gives him
- an edge out of the turns.
-
- Anyway, he says some of the locals are running canisters attached to
- the intake manifolds. They're about the size of a Coke can, attached
- with a rubber hose, and usually mounted directly under the intake.
- This threw me for a while, until I figured out what they're doing.
-
- The device is a Helmholtz resonator, and it's smoothing out the
- pressure variations in the intake manifold. It's probably tuned for
- right about where the engine runs out of air. On a four cylinder engine
- the induction pulses are very sharp, particularly as the 2000's manifold
- is a long-runner job with a very small plenum. Carbs are rated at
- *continuous* airflow. Unfortunately, intermittent induction pulses
- require a larger carburetor for the same airflow - that's why you see
- 1000 CFM or more on a 302 Ford with and independent-runner manifold and
- Webers, while 600 CFM is plenty with a four barrel. By smoothing the
- induction pulses, they can actually draw more air through the carb.
-
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- Posted by: emory!chaos.lrk.ar.us!dave.williams (Dave Williams)
-