Veteran readers of HRM—especially those who were with us during the '50s and early '60s—will remember how much editorial space we devoted to the creation of horsepower, handling, and headers. Not how ...

Last month we showed what gains were available from three aftermarket Three-Valve intake manifolds in naturally aspirated trim. This month we're going to try the same three intakes, only now we'll see ...

Your intake manifold. It takes in air and sends it to your engine's combustion chamber. This is basically the start of the combustion process. After all, you can't have combustion without air.

The intake manifold distributes air or air/fuel mixtures to the individual cylinders under varying engine speeds, loads, and environmental conditions. Whether the working flow is pure air, air/fuel, ...

Form and Function - A Look at Intake Manifold Design: Intake manifolds play a huge part of power production, here’s some of the hows and whys Internal combustion engines are fairly simply machines.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Current plastic intake manifolds are manufactured using the injection molding process. In this paper, thermoforming is explored as an ...

In a naturally aspirated engine, as air comes in through the intake and passes through the throttle body, you've traditionally had two setups for what happens next. Using longer, narrower intake ...

Popping the hood of a new Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing must have been quite an experience for most enthusiasts in the Fifties. For starters, the 3.0-liter straight-six sat canted at a fifty degree ...