Originally Posted by TVT_DESIGN
If you look at the design of the TB and intake elbow you will see that they interfere much more then smooth out flow. Flow is already coming in at a straight drop at this point. the fins direct the air over the vaccuum insertion point and directly in the middle of the butterfly blade.
If this is detuning the elbow, then what would we call the Needswings intake? That seems to flow pretty well and has removed all fins and stabilizers. Is the airflow distorted in their system?
I beg to differ, but the air flow is anything BUT a straight drop at this point. The attached pic shows what happens in an un-modified (no laminar flow baffles) elbow. I have circled the area that the baffles are designed to prevent.
Blue is lowest pressure and red denotes high pressure.
If you look at the small inset at the upper right, it shows the pressure distribution when the flow is doubled. Even worse!
And I want to make it perfectly clear that I want EVERYONE to succeed in these endevours. Not one camp or the other. Some of the members have expertise in certain areas where others do not. We just want to help make the best possible mods to these systems without problems.
OK?