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Re: Thechuckster's RA40 18Rte- slowly getting back to working order

Sat, 18 June 2005 11:04

munki wrote on Tue, 14 June 2005 22:51

that seems like an awfully small plenum. I know that you have limited space, especially with the turbo mounted high up. perhaps an 18re one would be good? I have a picture of one somewhere.

yeah... the plenum isn't the best size volume - i was just trying to avoid fabricating another intake.

The zorst side was problematic in the original configuration and i got pretty good response with the intake (in the draw-thru-carbi configuration. so i decided to work on the hot side of things rather than the intake. it also meant less cash-burn.

if you could find some pics of the 18re setup that would be helpful. Google doesn't turn up anything useful ;(

now that i've started to assemble thing i should have got the dude to do the manifold with a low slung turbo so i could have had the injectors mounted further up the runners and pointing at a shallower angle to the airflow (at the moment its 90 degrees which means idle and low-air-speeds will be very poor)

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or what about the k or t series plenum's with the chamber on top of the rocker covers and long runners?

i had actually thought about trying to adapt XF efi runners (their indivdual units that all bolt together) but that always entailed welding aluminium (e.g. TiG).

at a guess i'd say that K series (non-crossflow) might be adaptable but i'd be in the same boat as per the XF runners (e.g. alu fabrication). T efi engines are crossflow? so the spacing of runners would not suit the port spacing.

any idea on how rare K-series manifolds are? anyone considered measuring one up for me?

i guess there'll be a few pics of K manifolds here somewhere if i search hard enough?

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hmmm im just trying to avoid study damn uni

and a might fine thing that is to do Laughing