tomtom4049
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- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 93 Ranger XLT 3.0 w/A4LD
Hello all,
I was looking at a plastic upper intake for the 3.0 and it occurred to me that everybody who mods is interested in increasing the amount of airflow into the cylinders by one method or another, or a combination of methods to accomplish the task. Being that each intake valve is only open one at a time and each intake runner has a fixed size & therefore a fixed rate of flow with it's own intake restrictions, what if passages could be made between runners 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6 so each pair could cross-breathe from the adjacent runner as well as it's own? The passage could never be extremely large but each could be angled downward toward the lower intake port and this may give the vortex effect and cause the intake charge to swirl at that point just before entering the lower intake port. It was just a thought as a way to get the upper intake to deliver a little more air to each intake port on the lower intake.
Any ideas or theories as to what effect this would have either good, bad, or a mixed blessing/curse?
I was looking at a plastic upper intake for the 3.0 and it occurred to me that everybody who mods is interested in increasing the amount of airflow into the cylinders by one method or another, or a combination of methods to accomplish the task. Being that each intake valve is only open one at a time and each intake runner has a fixed size & therefore a fixed rate of flow with it's own intake restrictions, what if passages could be made between runners 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6 so each pair could cross-breathe from the adjacent runner as well as it's own? The passage could never be extremely large but each could be angled downward toward the lower intake port and this may give the vortex effect and cause the intake charge to swirl at that point just before entering the lower intake port. It was just a thought as a way to get the upper intake to deliver a little more air to each intake port on the lower intake.
Any ideas or theories as to what effect this would have either good, bad, or a mixed blessing/curse?
