COFFEE
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Guys,
I may sound a little uneducated, i know.
A couple of years ago @ Summernats in Canberra in saw an interesting creation.
I can't remember what it was called nor the best way to descirbe it so please bare with me.
But it was a very basic quad throttle bodie set up, but the unique part was there was no buttiflies.
It was say a sandwich of plates, the outer two were fixed whilst the inner sandwiched plate slid.
Now the these plates had were in between the heads and tube runners and had holes machined straight threw them.
When the sandwhiched plate was fully slid in one direction the holes all lined up and when slid the opperset way the holes were closed, hence acting as a quad throttle set up !
The set up i saw was for a commodore 5ltr. The complete manifold was about $5000, all cnc machined with carbonfibre bellmouth runners.
The benifit was that the throttles were so thin they saved a lot of height isssues, no butterfly so no restriction and it can be machined to suite what ever size you required ( Perfect match to head port ).
Whilst i couldn't get my head around how they internally sealed the unit for intake leaks, i was wondering if any of these talented people on this site had considered making anything of the such nature ?
Whilst i don't have access to the machinery nor materials it seemed a very simple and cost effective item to make.
If anyone was interested in attempting to make or research such a thing could they give me a yell ?
Whilst i am a draftsman i would be more than happy to assist designing and drawing something up.
Regards
stephen
I may sound a little uneducated, i know.
A couple of years ago @ Summernats in Canberra in saw an interesting creation.
I can't remember what it was called nor the best way to descirbe it so please bare with me.
But it was a very basic quad throttle bodie set up, but the unique part was there was no buttiflies.
It was say a sandwich of plates, the outer two were fixed whilst the inner sandwiched plate slid.
Now the these plates had were in between the heads and tube runners and had holes machined straight threw them.
When the sandwhiched plate was fully slid in one direction the holes all lined up and when slid the opperset way the holes were closed, hence acting as a quad throttle set up !
The set up i saw was for a commodore 5ltr. The complete manifold was about $5000, all cnc machined with carbonfibre bellmouth runners.
The benifit was that the throttles were so thin they saved a lot of height isssues, no butterfly so no restriction and it can be machined to suite what ever size you required ( Perfect match to head port ).
Whilst i couldn't get my head around how they internally sealed the unit for intake leaks, i was wondering if any of these talented people on this site had considered making anything of the such nature ?
Whilst i don't have access to the machinery nor materials it seemed a very simple and cost effective item to make.
If anyone was interested in attempting to make or research such a thing could they give me a yell ?
Whilst i am a draftsman i would be more than happy to assist designing and drawing something up.
Regards
stephen
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