About time! (like I have room to talk )
OK, so what's up your sleeve with that top adapter assembly? The front port I get, and the rear port sorta looks like it's for the bypass, but do you think it's big enough? Jeez, you could nearly fall in!
Are you putting a W2A core in that adapter, or in the manifold?
Methinks maybe this will be another twincharge setup? That's the reason for the, ahem, whopper of a bypass port?
Put your thinking cap on and help us all come up with a good way of distributing the boost better on these forward discharge SC's. Our front cylinders really do run leaner & meaner than the rest.
I now have good distribution (all plugs look the same) due to the intercooler system.
If you could lift the supercharger up and put a flat plate under the discharge to force the air to to turn 90degrees then flow down into the manifold it would improve things a lot.
I liked Scotturnot's baffle plate idea from last year, and may try to do something similar before the next test.
It's good to have the confirmation from Rod that the intercooler core helped the distribution. Rod, do you have some pics of how the internals were arranged? I'm curious to see how the fins were oriented
At one time I had it in my head that the fin density of the core would have to be higher (tighter) up front than in the rear, to "encourage" the air to go to the rear, but perhaps it's just not that big a deal in the real world.
Rod's IC is a front mount remember John, the 'sandwich' plate diverts to an external FMIC and then back to Rickwood manifold...in think the side entry nature helps distribution?
Got a link to the baffle plate idea? i don't recall that