absRTP

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Thanks, I saw this, but was'nt sure about it,

johnmatt

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Anyone make any progress on this in the last few days?

gospeed81

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Nope.

But if any of you guys are good at MATLAB I can work on this if you're willing to knock out my homework.

240_to_miata

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what do you need to do? Ive gotten pretty decent at matlab thru computational mechanics class.

neogenesis2004

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Matlab makes baby jesus cry..... I'm so glad I never had to learn to use it. Visual Studio is where my engineering takes place.

absRTP

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Solidworks does the job for me ;-)

+ CNC for the PCB

gospeed81

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I do everything in SolidWorks and MATLAB here at A&M, which stinks now since the place I picked up my Associates taught us Maple, C++ and AutoCAD. It's like learning new languages -literally- sometimes.

At least I use AutoCAD daily for work.

240, will send you a PM, but I'm basically trying to model the power curve of a car and relate that to vehicle speeds through a transmission model for a project due at the end of the month. I understand all this mechanically, but am having trouble telling the computer what to do with it.

Braineack

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I used Solidworks to come up with mine, just didn't know how to setup the boundry layer crap up correctly in Floworks.






Here you can clearly see that extra 1" of runner length I was talking about.

JasonC SBB

Too lazy to wade through this thread... how is this better than the Mazda one?

Braineack

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slightly larger plenum, better internal flow, larger inlet, slightly short runners...

cueball1

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It was a lot prettier in the rendering too!

apariah

If it mattered you could grind the welds and then ceramic, or power coat it.

The shorter runners are good for HP, but not so much for Torque correct?

Sparetire

The theory goes that shorter runners are good for higher RPM flow relative to longer runners which tend to help with velocity into the combustion chamber and that means great low-end flow.

More air flow at low RPMs tend to make a nice early, fat band of TQ at low RPM where lots of flow up top tends to make for TQ at high RPM. High RPM TQ = HP.

But its a lot more complex than that and I really dont know much beyond that basic idea.

Braineack

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the theory in brain language is: the longer the runner the more restriction it poses with higher flow rates but it also has better velocity at lower flow rates...

Sparetire

I need to learn to use fewer sentences. What Brain said.

sn95

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Small diameter runner = high flow velocity and lower CFM flow capacity
Large diameter runner= lower flow velocity and higher CFM flow capacity

Longer intake runner = lower RPM torque peak
Shorter intake runner = higher RPM torque peak

Combine long/short with small/large to match cylinder head airflow and engine RPM range

Long runners are not always limited to low RPM stump pullers; a well designed long runner tunnel ram manifold makes more midrange torque and high end power than a state of the art single plane short runner hi-rise manifold.

Full_Tilt_Boogie

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Wrong.
That is a gross oversimplification.

Shorter runners resonate over a larger range giving a flat torque band (both high and low)
Longer runners resonate in a shorter range giving a 'lump' of torque in a specific spot.

gospeed81

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I thought runner length had more to do with Helmholtz frequencies causing pulses which help to stack air into the intake valve. Same thing is commonly done with exhaust headers. You can time the returning pressure wave from the last valve opening to return at the same time the valve will open again with proper length runners.

This of course only works for a certain rpm, or small range, and you can't make runners that are the full wavelength, so they usually divide the wavelength by four, much like a sonotube application.

I'm pulling this all from memory and don't have time to back it up with research so I may be off, and I've yet actually ran the calc for our motors and desired powerband. I just did a simple interpolation between stock runner length and Honda B series aftermarket runners (tuned for 8200rpm!) to get an idea of how long our runners should be to keep torque up from the usual drop-off after 5K rpm to redline.

Braineack

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The air in your IM travels like sound waves. When the intake valve closes, more and more waves of air pile up within the runner. It then bounces around within the runner until the intake valve opens again. The plenum acts as a resonance chamber.

When my IM was fitted I had a nasty resonance at exactly 4000RPM.

view it yourself here:


I held my foot as steady as I could to bring the revs up to 4000RPM, as soon as you hit it it's like the starting gun at the Kentucky Derby, the revs just take off.

I found that the throttle cable was oscillating so violently and so rapidly it was actually pulling the throttle cable tight thus opening the throttle further. When driving you could feel the throttle pedal literally drop to the floor. I had to dampen this resonance on the throttle cable by fitting some vacuum line around it.

With that said, I elaborate on my simplification:

Longer runners will increase torque in lower RPMs because they have a lower resonant frequency. Coupled with the fact that the length and combination of typically smaller OEM diameters help increase the air velocity.

Shorter runners will increase torque in higher RPMs because they have a higher resonant frequency. Further exaggerated by the shorter length and combination of typically larger diameters promote higher air flow rates, however hinder low-end performance due to this same fact.

It's all a compromise.

sn95

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Quite true, I was posting in response to an even larger gross simplification. Your answer is also a gross simplification; pulsed intake runners resonate on multiple frequencies (1st harmonic thru Nth harmonic). The strongest pulse tuning effect is on the 1st harmonic (around 12 feet long for a production engine no running stratospheric RPM). Some production and racing NA intakes are tuned for the 3rd or 4th harmonic. Runner length is measured from the head of the intake valve to the top of the "velocity stack".

The lump of torque in a specific spot is probably only achievable if you simultaneously tuned intake runner, cam and exhaust header length to that spot. compare the torque curves of a production TPI 350 Chevy V8 (long runner, small diameter) and a modern LS6 (medium runner, large diameter) and tell me where the "lump of torque" is on the TPI engine.