Side drafts
When I started collecting the parts, the megasquirt was at version one. So... money dosen't grow on trees around here.
Also during that period, i have designed and built 3 intakes to suport a GM M90. Since the m90 uses a serpentine belt, i had to design a serpentine belt system. Since ready available headers won't fit around the manifold I built my own.
What have you been doing?
Artfully dodging the question, how long has the project taken? It's admirable that You are motivated & capable, I designed a slanty intake years ago for a 4bbl, to find it
by accident 8 yrs. later masquerading as a short runner AussiSpeed Hurricane. Lol. My plan was sheetmetal 6061-T6 tho', made the patterns, have the sheet of
al-u-minimum. I have been kicking ideas around to make it an "active" intake, so I haven't committed to cutting it all out yet & borrowing My friends TIG, wheels still
turning..........
The problem here is, practicality is determined by a number of things, reliability being one of the most important facets. Driveability being the other top priority, it depends
largely on local climate/conditions, and functional aids such as chokes, intake heat or lack thereof, heated air to prevent icing etc. The last large determining factor is the
owner's tolerance for less than perfect behavior under all conditions, high,low,somewhere in between?
I'll be frank, I know SanFran can be brisk, I
DO know that I left Vegas in July at 7:00AM & 85deg, and landed in SanJose in the low 50's...DAMN!! So I don't know what
temp swings occur out there, but sidedrafts are no different than any other setup with an unheated intake and needing rejetted to be "perfect" with temp & baro changes.
Fuel injection is wonderful, and I'm not recommending against it by any stretch, but if You're trying to tell Me it's easier to home engineer,set-up and get functional an
EFI system than bolt on the mannys & set up fuel supply and linkages.....
BEFORE one starts tuning..............I gotta disagree with Ya on that one.
As far as what have I been doing, You don't wanna hear about all of it,.....& most of it's not for Me! I have gotten some of My toys to progress along, but right now I need
to get back to My Friends 452 heads, 1st crack at doing 2.18's w/the 1.81's.......before I'm not so good a Friend...LOL!!
