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I've been told I need a dedicated thread for this development, the rationale is that Ferrari did their level best to choke the engine in every way possible so that it was not faster than the Fezzers of the day. The Manifolds, cats and exhaust squishes are well documented and sadly many 4200/GS units have been lost due to hydrolock incidences.
As we all know the OEM induction pulls the air through the left hand bottom bumper opening only! This is frankly a stupid location for several reasons:
Firstly because it is so low the air is influenced by ground effect, the slightest puddle gets sucked in and positioned at the end of the bumper there is no ram effect in fact the opposite happens at speed because the air is moving sideway past the opening being deflected around the bumper.
Hydrolock - enough said!
Snow - Well if you want to laugh your backside off try and drive one of these in the snow! If you do you stand a damned good chance of clogging the intake with anything more than 75mm of snow on the ground!
Soaked and rotting air filter / Lack of serviceability... We have all seen the pictures dealers try to claim are 1 year old filters as rotten as a pear - Frankly I only believes the independents actually change them and even that I'd question.
Disintegrating air boxes; I'll guarantee your air box is in a bad way and the rubber mounts will be failing or will have failed.
RESTRICTIONS = This is the biggy, if you measure the internal diameter of the throttle body you will get a potential induction requirement or capability, look at the opening in the bumper and you will find a V shaped water deflector, measure the areas either side and add them you will find physical restriction No.1, look at how the V also influences the airflow and you will see that a speed this will also restrict itself by blocking!
The paper cartridge itself if replaced is actually a good size but a cleanable cotton one will breath much better.
Moving up the air box takes the air and squeezes it into a flattened tube under the headlight and through the wing, totally necessary! This is just stupid design and built in restriction again to less than 2/3 the area of the induction and over a longer length.
The many direction changes and shape changes have by now got the air swirling all over the place so the MAF (Mass Air Flow sensor) has a set of cross bar meshes on it to 'straighten the air' so the reader can get a reading, between the MAF and the throttle body is the real rub, a bent hose that has a set of ripples in it that serve no purpose other than to cause chaos to the airflow by creating standing waves. They would claim that these are to allow movement of the engine 'strain relief' well I have yet to see my engine rock more than a couple of mm.
So if you believe all that then we can see how much we can liberate the engine... I have inly a part built system so far but already I can assure you it has freed the engine, it sounds awesome and is louder coming towards you on song than it is going away from you with the X-pipe Folks on the track side in Modena commented not only on the howl but also an induction 'whistle'!!!!
As I develop the rest of the system I'll update on here but I have a company in Bedfordshire waiting to see my creation and then to take it, improve it and produce it with a minimum 20 unit order
The same company will also complete the development of the silicone cooling hoses started last year.
I presently have a very large K&N cylinder cleanable filter which is mounted in the wing with the airbox removed completely and a straight silicone hose feeding directly to the MAF, with stated improvements.
The K&N is of such proportions that it will fit through the bumper opening with the grille removed with just 3mm of clearance! the intention is to mount it to the left side behind the grille between the aircon moisture trap and the radiator and grille.
An uninterrupted U-bend of silicone will then reach around the side of the radiator (with a small (insignificant) body modification) to a slightly altered MAF location. At this time I have no intention of changing the MAF but it should be possible to replace this with one with no mesh. Then a single piece silicone hose from the MAF to the Throttle body incorporating the crank breather.
Today I made an aluminium pipe with a crank breather T welded into it so I can put a silicone straight before and after from throttle body to MAF.
I have never welded any aluminium before and to start on 1.6mm thick was brave, to ARC weld it probably foolish but I had a practice with half a rod to find the correct power for it and nailed it in one!!! So here you go:
More as it progresses
As we all know the OEM induction pulls the air through the left hand bottom bumper opening only! This is frankly a stupid location for several reasons:
Firstly because it is so low the air is influenced by ground effect, the slightest puddle gets sucked in and positioned at the end of the bumper there is no ram effect in fact the opposite happens at speed because the air is moving sideway past the opening being deflected around the bumper.
Hydrolock - enough said!
Snow - Well if you want to laugh your backside off try and drive one of these in the snow! If you do you stand a damned good chance of clogging the intake with anything more than 75mm of snow on the ground!
Soaked and rotting air filter / Lack of serviceability... We have all seen the pictures dealers try to claim are 1 year old filters as rotten as a pear - Frankly I only believes the independents actually change them and even that I'd question.
Disintegrating air boxes; I'll guarantee your air box is in a bad way and the rubber mounts will be failing or will have failed.
RESTRICTIONS = This is the biggy, if you measure the internal diameter of the throttle body you will get a potential induction requirement or capability, look at the opening in the bumper and you will find a V shaped water deflector, measure the areas either side and add them you will find physical restriction No.1, look at how the V also influences the airflow and you will see that a speed this will also restrict itself by blocking!
The paper cartridge itself if replaced is actually a good size but a cleanable cotton one will breath much better.
Moving up the air box takes the air and squeezes it into a flattened tube under the headlight and through the wing, totally necessary! This is just stupid design and built in restriction again to less than 2/3 the area of the induction and over a longer length.
The many direction changes and shape changes have by now got the air swirling all over the place so the MAF (Mass Air Flow sensor) has a set of cross bar meshes on it to 'straighten the air' so the reader can get a reading, between the MAF and the throttle body is the real rub, a bent hose that has a set of ripples in it that serve no purpose other than to cause chaos to the airflow by creating standing waves. They would claim that these are to allow movement of the engine 'strain relief' well I have yet to see my engine rock more than a couple of mm.
So if you believe all that then we can see how much we can liberate the engine... I have inly a part built system so far but already I can assure you it has freed the engine, it sounds awesome and is louder coming towards you on song than it is going away from you with the X-pipe Folks on the track side in Modena commented not only on the howl but also an induction 'whistle'!!!!
As I develop the rest of the system I'll update on here but I have a company in Bedfordshire waiting to see my creation and then to take it, improve it and produce it with a minimum 20 unit order
The same company will also complete the development of the silicone cooling hoses started last year.
I presently have a very large K&N cylinder cleanable filter which is mounted in the wing with the airbox removed completely and a straight silicone hose feeding directly to the MAF, with stated improvements.
The K&N is of such proportions that it will fit through the bumper opening with the grille removed with just 3mm of clearance! the intention is to mount it to the left side behind the grille between the aircon moisture trap and the radiator and grille.
An uninterrupted U-bend of silicone will then reach around the side of the radiator (with a small (insignificant) body modification) to a slightly altered MAF location. At this time I have no intention of changing the MAF but it should be possible to replace this with one with no mesh. Then a single piece silicone hose from the MAF to the Throttle body incorporating the crank breather.
Today I made an aluminium pipe with a crank breather T welded into it so I can put a silicone straight before and after from throttle body to MAF.
I have never welded any aluminium before and to start on 1.6mm thick was brave, to ARC weld it probably foolish but I had a practice with half a rod to find the correct power for it and nailed it in one!!! So here you go:
More as it progresses