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Offline kubik1981

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Intake Plenum
« on: December 29, 2008, 06:38:47 PM »
Does anyone know do they make a after market plenum chamber for a 1990 1.8 tracker 8v

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Re: Intake Plenum
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2008, 08:46:12 PM »
Not to my knowledge.

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Re: Intake Plenum
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2008, 10:46:25 AM »
The intake manifold on an 8V acts as a plenum anyway. If you want to increase the volume then you might try buying or making a throttle body spacer. What are you trying to achieve?
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Re: Intake Plenum
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2008, 02:24:13 PM »
I've only seen home-brew ones for guys that are running turbos. I've always wanted to figure out a way to move the air intake to the Passenger Side. I don't like how the intake goes over the hot engine & exhaust. Next junk-yard run I'll be looking at other Geo vehicles to see what they're using.
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Re: Intake Plenum
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2008, 06:04:33 PM »
i just figured a stock intakes usually mess up air flow so i wanted something to help move the air into the motor

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Re: Intake Plenum
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2009, 11:17:03 AM »
OK I understand what you mean by plenum now. It looks like a pretty tight bend where the cast section comes over the top of the throttle body. I did consider making up something but I met a guy that had fitted a large diameter rubber pipe with a good sized bend. He didn't notice any difference and looking at it the entry to the throttle body is much larger than the effective hole through it. I did consider removing the injector and boring out the bottom of the throttle body to allow it to flow more. I was then going to fit two smaller injectors in a throttle body spacer. Then I would have had to replace the alloy cross pipe and then my snorkel would have been the restriction. I decided that it would to too much work for too little potential gain. I'm going to be doing some dyno work in a couple of months testing out some ECU mods. I'll try a run with the pipe off to see if there are any gains to be had.
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Re: Intake Plenum
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2009, 11:42:39 AM »
cool thanks for that let me know what you find out