It might seem that the intake manifold is one of the simplest components on an engine. After all, the purpose of the intake is to provide a series of passages to join the carburetor with the intake ...

A flagrant case of misaligned ports indicated by the carbon formations. During the course of building, modifying or merely "sharpening up" an overhead valve V8 engine, the question of intake port ...

Without question, cylinder-head porting is a science. The act of removing metal from the intake and exhaust ports to increase airflow has been used for decades, and in most cases, a skilled head ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 103, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS & LUBRICANTS (1994), pp. 853-868 (16 pages) The paper presents a computer simulation of flow and heat transfer phenomena in the intake port of a ...

Cylinder head porting is one of those garage mods that lives somewhere between speed-shop legend and flow-bench science. Also referred to as port and polish, the idea is simple: Open up the intake and ...

Engine porting has been around for as long as there has been electricity to power high speed grinders, but there are many options a racer or street buff can choose from when looking to improve the ...

Most modern vehicles have multi-port fuel injection (MFI) with a separate fuel injector for each cylinder. This system mixes the fuel and air together right in the intake port for eachengine cylinder ...

SAE International Journal of Engines, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020), pp. 293-310 (18 pages) This article aims to identify the best combination of intake port angle (IPA) and cylinder head pentroof angle (PA) ...

Modern engines are cleaner and more efficient than the ones you grew up with, yet many drivers are discovering a new headache ...