[Vwdiesel] turbo on NA engine

[Terry Briggs]

While I agree, the intake runners are of very good design, and do 
function as designed, I find the flexible corrugated hose thats about 
1.25 inches in diameter  that goes to the air box to be very lacking in 
the "good" flow department. A smooth lead i would improve the overall 
flow characteristics. Though the engineers are akin to genious, they 
still had to make an affordable car, so there are always things that 
could be improved, however slightly that may be. Were they absolutely 
concerned with performance, they would have been more expensive than 
they were. Granted, they do provide enough to get the job done, but 
there are always improvements that can be made.
On Jun 23, 2006, at 3:33 AM, James Hansen wrote:

>
>> For now, I'll stick with a larger exhaust,
>> more effiecient air intake system, you must admit, the stock air 
>> intake
>> on an na diesel is very poor at best, I almost laugh when I think 
>> about
>> it.
>
> Waitaminit.
>
> Those are tuned runners my good fellow, and are a damn-site more
> efficient at pressuring the charge into the cylinders by piling up the
> air in front of the valve to increase volumetric efficiency than you
> give credit for.
>
> Remember who designed and built these engines. Obsessively compulsive
> detail freaks that are German engineers.  There is a reason for having
> it a certain way, or it ain't there.
> -James
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