Dave the intake manifold holds 11.3 liters man you where way off with the 6.1 hahahahah. sorry it took so long
Well, I laid a 2 liter bottle next to it and it looked like about 3 of them would fill it. Must be like the Tartus on Dr. Who...
Thanks fellas! Learning all I can from you pros. What is STATIC VOLUME exactly?:stars: The max air volume that can occupy the intake manifold at any given time?:grin:
well, yes, sort of. Volume is volume, space, a linear measurement in three dimensions, etc. There is no max to it. The air or whatever occupying that volume/space might be more or less dense. So there probably isn't any such term as "static volume". I just stuck "static" in there because any time you mention volume and intake around here people start talking flow and giving CFM (Cubic Feet per Minute) type of numbers. I wanted to know the volume. Remember we were talking about intakes and intake temps and phenolics and coatings and all that stuff. Your engine displaces 6.1 liters. It does that every 2 revolutions. Now that we know that the intake manifold is just a little less than twice that we know roughly how fast that volume of air passes through there. We have an idea of how long it spends in there at a given rpm. So at 4000 rpm the air in the intake manifold gets changed about 1000 times a minute. Thats a bit more than 16 times a second. The question is: how much heat can be exchanged from the manifold to the air in that amount of time with that surface area? (we don't know the internal surface area but it doesn't exactly look like a radiater core in there).
wow glad I could help sorry it took them so long I could get down they so I had the shop owner do it for me so I known it was done right. he used plexi glass to cover the main TB hole and did it perfectly so I know those numbers must be damn close
