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Re: Ram Air debate

To: Nolan Penney <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
Subject: Re: Ram Air debate
From: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:56:34 +0100
What sort of Velocity stacks?
The triumphtune catalogue recomend very short ones that fit into the K&Ns. I was
going to do this, but if you have better ideas?
Cheers
Tim
Nolan Penney wrote:

> >From what I have seen of the air flow characteristics of SU carburetors,
> that would not be the best of both worlds.  A ram pipe or velocity stack
> is vital, and has more effect on air flow and the accompaning power then
> either cold air or the air filter.
>
> Simple enough to make a PVC or drier tube cold air feed.  One of my
> Spitfires has it.
>
> >>> "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk> 08/22 12:18 PM >>>
> Hi All,
> Just been thinking about the Air flow to spit carbs after chatting to
> one of the list last night.
> I have been thinking of getting some K&Ns to provide a free flow, but I
> realised that that would mean loosing the coll air routing fromt he
> ducting used on the normal Air box.
> Has anyone modified the airbox to fit K&Ns thus getting the best of both
> worlds, eg cool air and free flow?
>
>



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