hybrid porting question
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hybrid porting question
This may be a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway:
Peripherally-ported engines can produce amazing NA power at high RPM, but they suffer from poor low RPM performance, and are essentially useless on the street. Rumor is they can't idle below 2-3k and really don't come alive until 6-7k, right?
A stock side port system, on the other hand exhibits essentially the opposite behaviour: good idle and street characteristics, but runs out of breath at upper RPM.
So... why not try a hybrid port system; i.e., one that uses traditional stock side ports for low RPM idling and "street" RPM ranges, with a P-port system for upper RPM work? A staged intake system that switches from side port to P-port would have to be designed/built, of course, but wouldn't this offer the best of both worlds?
I was just wondering...
-Mark
Peripherally-ported engines can produce amazing NA power at high RPM, but they suffer from poor low RPM performance, and are essentially useless on the street. Rumor is they can't idle below 2-3k and really don't come alive until 6-7k, right?
A stock side port system, on the other hand exhibits essentially the opposite behaviour: good idle and street characteristics, but runs out of breath at upper RPM.
So... why not try a hybrid port system; i.e., one that uses traditional stock side ports for low RPM idling and "street" RPM ranges, with a P-port system for upper RPM work? A staged intake system that switches from side port to P-port would have to be designed/built, of course, but wouldn't this offer the best of both worlds?
I was just wondering...
-Mark
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I thought about the intake thing as well, but pushed the idea aside for it was way too much for a street car and too unnessasary for a race car.
I thought about the intake thing as well, but pushed the idea aside for it was way too much for a street car and too unnessasary for a race car.
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Originally Posted by mhwarner
This may be a dumb question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway:
Peripherally-ported engines can produce amazing NA power at high RPM,
Peripherally-ported engines can produce amazing NA power at high RPM,
but they suffer from poor low RPM performance
, and are essentially useless on the street. Rumor is they can't idle below 2-3k and really don't come alive until 6-7k, right?
It also spins the tires from a roll at 2k in First. Fuelling issues are preventing me from doing much more than that, my fuel pump is woefully small.
OTOH, cruising in-town is right out. You can't drive it in the city below 2500 unless you're accelerating. Otherwise the bucking is just insane.
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As soon as someone ponies up the money for dyno time, maybe. But the dragstrip is the best place to tune an engine, so dynos don't matter much to me. Plus dyno time is *expensive*.
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