Electronic Cold Air Intake?
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Electronic Cold Air Intake?
So the other day I was doing the usual ebay surfing and stumbled upon the electric superchargers. I researched them to see if they actually worked and... nope. But then the idea came to my mind to use a fan to draw colder air into the engine bay using a small fan.
Right now I have a cone filter with the stock resonator. The problem with this is that it pulls in air straight from the engine bay. I still have the stock tubing that normally connects to the bottom of the airbox leading to under my intake. To help the colder air get to the intake I am thinking that I could attach a 4" duct fan, which moves air 100 cubic feet per minute, to the end of the stock intake tubing directly under the cone filter. I have airplane switches in my dash that I could attach it to in order to toggle it on/off. Does anyone else think this would work? Any suggestions? Just throw any crazy idea you've had out there.
Right now I have a cone filter with the stock resonator. The problem with this is that it pulls in air straight from the engine bay. I still have the stock tubing that normally connects to the bottom of the airbox leading to under my intake. To help the colder air get to the intake I am thinking that I could attach a 4" duct fan, which moves air 100 cubic feet per minute, to the end of the stock intake tubing directly under the cone filter. I have airplane switches in my dash that I could attach it to in order to toggle it on/off. Does anyone else think this would work? Any suggestions? Just throw any crazy idea you've had out there.
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your engine uses several times that right now.
sounds like you might like a turbo charger.
But first....... are you sure that your plugs are new, oxy seniors new, ?
If not, a good tune up.
Start there.
sounds like you might like a turbo charger.
But first....... are you sure that your plugs are new, oxy seniors new, ?
If not, a good tune up.
Start there.
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Ya I've done an entire tune up already and I'm really wanting to stay NA. Would that amount of colder air help the intake at all.
The reason I wasn't going to use a regular CAI is because I want the least restrictiveness as possible. The cone filter with a little bit of colder air being pushes under it would be free flowing as a SRI, yet with colder and fresher air.
The reason I wasn't going to use a regular CAI is because I want the least restrictiveness as possible. The cone filter with a little bit of colder air being pushes under it would be free flowing as a SRI, yet with colder and fresher air.
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Your 100 cfm fan got me thinking about how much air does the engine use. So I worked at it and came up with 1887.78 rpm as using 100 cfm.
So armed with this information, I can now go into a bar and order me a cold beverage. When they bring it, I will inform them of this and I don't have to worry about getting thrown on out as long as I have put a fiver on the counter.
So armed with this information, I can now go into a bar and order me a cold beverage. When they bring it, I will inform them of this and I don't have to worry about getting thrown on out as long as I have put a fiver on the counter.
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a 3 liter engine is 183.0713 cubic inches
being a 4 cycle engine, only half of the cylinders do an intake stroke each revolution
This equals 183.0713 divided by 2 or 91.53565 cubic inches per revolution
Rounding off to 91.54 cubic inches
A cubic foot of air equals 12 x 12 x 12 or 1728 cubic inches.
Divide 1728 by 91.54 and you get 18.8778 revolutions of the engine to use one cubic foot of air.
At 1887.78 rpm, the 3 liter engine is using 100 cubic feet of air per minute.
being a 4 cycle engine, only half of the cylinders do an intake stroke each revolution
This equals 183.0713 divided by 2 or 91.53565 cubic inches per revolution
Rounding off to 91.54 cubic inches
A cubic foot of air equals 12 x 12 x 12 or 1728 cubic inches.
Divide 1728 by 91.54 and you get 18.8778 revolutions of the engine to use one cubic foot of air.
At 1887.78 rpm, the 3 liter engine is using 100 cubic feet of air per minute.