Re: Functional Fender Vent Kit
Originally Posted by Franc Rauscher
7) My stubborness witn Dave has to do with his negativity on most any new idea presented here
I am not negative to new ideas, but I am negative to poor ones. I spent my working life designing and I did not waste my time considering bad ideas, I spent my time on good ideas not ideas that were based on poor physics. A forward facing scoop where the strakes are would work, but would fail as it would be a danger to pedestrians and you would be banned from the road.
The strakes are fakes for air vents not intakes and you cannot alter the dynamics of the geometry with out adding forward facing scoops.
When you look at the volume of air that enters the engine you realize that the air in the intake does not stay in there too long and hence it will not get heated too much at all. The faster the engine runs the less the air gets heated. That's simple thermal engineering basics.
Probably more heat is picked up by the air in the intake manifold as the airways are smaller and the metal surrounding the air is at or about engine temperature. Whereas the air around the CAI is not at engine temperature.
I am not against the OPs idea, it is your idea of using his vents as an intake that fails the test of logical analysis.
Last edited by onehundred80; Sep 2, 2011 at 10:16 AM.