Saw this and thought folks here might find it handy:
http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/1511-how-to-modify-a-carburetor-for-boost/
http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/1511-how-to-modify-a-carburetor-for-boost/
Saw this and thought folks here might find it handy:
http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/1511-how-to-modify-a-carburetor-for-boost/
The article is about a roots style supercharger. They are drawthru. So the modification is relevent. This modification can also be used with a drawthru turbo setup. So it is also relevant for them. By far the best written, that I have seen, on how to do this modification.
My point was, the number of draw-thru systems being built is, I think, small, compared with the number of blow-trhru projects out there. I don't remember seeing or hearing about many draw-thru systems lately, although they seem to work equally-well as the blow-thru's insofar as power-production is concerned.. Their main drawback is, nobody seems to want to run an intercooler with them because it becomes, basically,a bomb when full of pressurized air and fuel. KA-BOOM!!!!
No matter how the easy and simple a mod you find that actually WORKS, people are gonna come out and bash it.
You need to get out more and visit the VW bug forums. The drawthru setup is quite popular over there. You really don't need an intercooler with drawthru. The very act of mixing the fuel and air in the carb and running it thru the turbo produces a "liquid intercooler" which is just effective as an external intercooler. This is explained in MacInnes book.
Who bashed it? I didn't; I just said I thought that it seemed to me that the bulk of the systems in place and being built were blow-thru, so it's value was questionable, compared to the same-style article about mods to a blow-thru carb..
I even went to far as to say, " they seem to work equally-well as the blow-thru's insofar as power-production is concerned..." which, I believe to be true.
Not bashing the draw thru system...
I think using Radiator/ Gas tank repair putty puts it into the "hack job" arena..Using grub screws and threaded fitting would be more of a "professional job".
No matter how the easy and simple a mod you find that actually WORKS, people are gonna come out and bash it.
Did I mention your name, geezer? lol
I just find it snobby that people always always ALWAYS come up with a "better" idea about something around here.
Will the modification work the way it was described in the first post? YES. Isn't that good enough?
STOP ARGUING God dammit or I'm going to start an ARGEMENT