Leadership Team Mcalvert Posted December 2, 2006 Leadership Team Share Posted December 2, 2006 This month's LF had an advert from Specialist Components advertising ram pipes for Weber DCOEs promising "5% increase in air flow at mid range, rising to 8% at full throttle" Is this the carb equavalent of snake oil, or can a third party design a ram pipe better suited to the Caterham application than the standard Weber part? Michael. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal mickey Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Mike, you may be best talking to someone like Ammo who spend time on flow benches to achieve better airflow. He showed me some quite simple port shapes that improved flow conciderably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old captain slow Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 It's quite an art I think. From karting days even the shape of the return on the bell mouth made a significant difference. Also the degree of polish on the air tract. Highly polished leading to poorer air flow. Dull polish better. As far as I recall something to do with breaking laminar flow. Good luck. 😬 C7 CDW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Plato Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 They are posibly full radius edge with optimal wall taper . This can result in more flow . If the engine is capable of using this extra air flow is another question - depends where your restriction is here is C7 TOP Taffia Area Rep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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