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Pete 86
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Topic: More airPosted: 04 Apr 2020 at 22:56 |
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Im thinking if i heat up the air intake wings on both sides (gen1)
So they face straight or even a little bit outwards then i will double the air forced into the air box. Should give me a denser hit of air to the cylinder no? I know the throttle bodies and ports remain same size. But more air compressed in airbox = bigger dose no? Tweek the fuel and hey presto bigger bang??? Theorys welcome👍
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426hemi
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:03 |
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You will hardly get over atmospheric pressure, unless you fit bigger diameter intake tubes and enlarge the frame opening and upgrade the airbox size, to double the intake pressure you would probably have to be riding at Mach 1.
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:14 |
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Go for it I'm glad someone else thought outside the box ![]() I did it on my track bike years ago,along with Edwards tubes and a big boot airbox sleeved with the stubs of the later airbox which I cut off to blend so there is no hot frame exposed to the cold air. Did it make any difference? Probably not,but it was free to do and lots of little things add up if you do enough of them. Incremental engineering heh? ![]() I seem to recall you're limited when bending them out unless you cut the corners back and then use epoxy or glass to blend bigger corner rads. |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:16 |
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Air density going in will be the same i agree . That will change with temp yes.
But im thinking once in the airbox it will be compressed because of extra air being forced in? It dosent have anywhere to go once its in the airway but the air box. ??
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:26 |
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Probably more effect gained by keeping the boiling hot frame away from the incoming air. Edwards tubes lightly reduced on the O/D so they go through the rail further then butcher your old air boot and use the lower arms to mate in the rails from the inside and butt up to the Edwards tubes,far better than either of the Aprilia options. If you cut it right you can mate the cut stubs through the earlier airboot and practically blend the two Not perfect by any means but at least it's flaring the right way. Possibly not gaining any more than a couple of BHP if any at all but the principle still stands that you need the maximum amount of COLD air you can manage |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:29 |
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So you didnt feel any increase in torque or power ian.
I was planning on just bending the wings not the full monty with the pipes and stuff. Nice to hear someone has tried it out before. Maybe ill have a little tinker |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:37 |
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Difficult to say tbh,I fitted a modded collector, EVO airbox mod plus those mods at the same time Also think I went to a 15 T on the front sprocket then as well so everything felt totally different,I do recall it felt like a bigger engine ![]() As you can see,marginal bends on the air intakes without cutting and glassing
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:42 |
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You would also need a pcv 5 with auto tune to be able to alter fuelling on the fly to compensate for the air.
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:42 |
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Yes definitely more air going in there ian.
I think ill try it. Let you know how it feels once im allowed out. I have a fiew performance bits just aprilia ones so ill defo know if it feels different. Havent changed anything for a couple of yrs.
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:46 |
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And no,I didn't have my knee down and yes,I was bricking it ![]() That was Turn 6 Dry Sack at Jerez at the end of the long straight and my mate that had been in front of me had his bike jump out of gear and had just speared straight off through the kitty litter |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:46 |
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I read a fiew posts about the pcv valve on here the other day hemi
Pressure control valve? For crank breather? I dont have one! Just a straight breather from head to airbox. I have one way valves for clutch assist! Do i need to look for it someone else hemi? |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:48 |
hope hes ok👍
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:50 |
I doubt it would need it for the marginal flow increase, I would expect the ecu to compensate slightly like an altitude change? Anyway,it's free try it
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Posted: 04 Apr 2020 at 23:52 |
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I don't know where you are with the intake Phil but Ian covered most of the tried and tested mods from over the years. I have a modded collector from Mark on here (Redratbike) matched with an EVO airbox, the early Gen1 Air Boot (Less restrictive) and the Edwards Intake Tubes as well as an FR200 chip. It's important to have the TB's balanced AFTER all the mods are done too. As Ian says, with all that done - And it was probably mainly the collector but the other bits would all help incrementally - the increase in mid-range was amazing and much more control in the lower rev range for the road. |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 00:08 |
I think he actually sh*t himself although he kept the bike upright somehow, I seem to recall a thin grass strip on the l/h side leading to the corner marshals postHis Duc 849 ? turned out to have a dodgy selector fork and one iffy spark plug we found out when we got home. It wasn't a happy holiday for him but better than another guy who bought a new to him MV F4 along and came to change tyres first session on track. We watched for ages all the people trying torque guns and long breaker bars trying to get the back wheel nut undone. By the time we wandered over and asked if the muppets knew it was a L/H thread they'd already burnt out one industrial gun and damaged the impact socket. Amazing how many people said " bollocks,a Ducati isn't like that" ![]() It took someone who'd raced one the previous season to convince them we knew the truth. Even after they tried a 3' breaker bar with a handy fence post on the end in the correct direction it wouldn't shift. MV locked up for the next 3 days and he drank much Spanish beer instead. Still better than another of my mates who shipped his ex BSB 'blade over with all his kit .... and his passport in his leathers
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 00:15 |
I knew I did something else as well,it was the FR200 chip and yes I had Griff set the balance afterwards. Really nothing short of a B/B is going to have much effect,far better playing with your suspension instead so you can try and use all you have available more of the time. Suspension tuning is MUCH more fun
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:26 |
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So i have ballanced my throttle bodies with the mercury guages.
Now heres my piont! I used the pipes on each throttle intake thats ok. But i used the brass air bypass screws on the left hand side to sync them. Now the thing is when you ballance the throttle bodys usually you adjust the throttle plates to equal the air flow on each port. But the throttle plates on a mille SHARE THE SAME SHAFT so its impossible to adjust them individually. Can anyone confirm that or tell me im wrong and their is another procedure???? Cheers guys.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:51 |
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Pete, you need the Aprilia kit to do the TB's - as well as someone who can use it properly - it's not as simple as using mercury gauges (I have those as well), you need to adjust the fuel mixture too. I got Griff at AP to do mine. I'm even further away from their base than you but I had mine done on one of his away day service days and I went to a forum members house in York. I've not heard of any recently (Of course nothing at the moment) so you would need to check if he is still doing them. If not, it's worth the trip to Tamworth just for that as at the end of the day we ride these things for fun so just plan a fun route. Believe me it will be worth it, after mine was done the low speed running was vastly improved with no jerking or stuttering from as low as 2500rpm. I bought my bike new and it had never ran as well. |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:52 |
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You could actually be losing power by changing the air scoops. Ram air works by building a pressure front at the intakes. The amount of pressure isn’t just about volume, it’s greatly affected by turbulence. The nose area of bikes will have been wind tunnel tested for the best flow/turbulence trade off. If you introduce turbulence the pressure goes down.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:57 |
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Cheers guys. Apreciate that.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 12:02 |
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Ok guys so i am going to put my brass screws back to where they are
reomended. Rear 1 turn out Fromt 1.5 turns out. Is that correct guys?
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 15:01 |
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Seems about right from what I can remember While the theory about pressure/volume etc is undoubtedly correct the little difference a few degrees of intake flap will make it's largely irrelevant either way I submit. For starters these engines are only a step away from an agricultural ditch pump when running well,the cam timing can be up to 14 degrees + - from optimum just by tolerance and that's before the pressed on lobes walk slightly and open both valves asymmetrically. I also tried adjusting my throttle bodies with a good set of vac gauges,when Griff checked them properly using the gas analyser probes they were so far out he was surprised the engine still ran so not recommended ![]() |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 16:17 |
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Ram air is just marketing bollox for a road bike Ian. I forget which mag it was That tested it but it needed something like 150mph to get any Real ram air affect on an srad. It’s exponential as well so to get any increase you need a significant increase in speed. I cant remember the figures but 200mph gets you something like 1 or 2 psi but you need something silly like 1500mph to double the pressure.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 17:33 |
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That was sort of my point,a few degrees of entry flap bend isn't really going do much on its own However,
as a general principle anything that increases the chance of getting
the maximum possible flow of COLD air to the airbox has to be good I
would suggest. The engineer side of me feels that just
because Aprilia didn't do x,y or z as OE years ago,due to whatever
pressures were on them at the time I doesn't mean it shouldn't be done
now if someone has a mind to try and doesn't mind potentially not
getting the hoped for benefit. The
opposite calculating side says,stop flogging a dead horse and just go
and buy a modern bike that reliably does more than what you want as
supplied. I appreciate lots of people will
disagree with the second option and will keep trying to upgrade the
venerable Mille into a KTM beater so , why not? it gives one a challenge in life ![]() One
fact I've just remembered is that in their heyday Renegade always got
consistently higher BHP figures on their Fuchs dyno compared with a
Dynojet which was put down to the efficiency of their big cooling fans
blasting air at front of the bike which Dynojet didn't use. I agree it probably didn't translate in the real world but it would seem to illustrate the point? |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 18:03 |
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Im going for it iaz
![]() .Im no engineer but im a grease monkey for ducati leeds and i love to tinker. Im also going to heat up my headers and squash them in the vice HAHA. Just after the flange to the head. just like on the ducatis . Create a 'venturi' effect on the gasses out of the ex port, speed it up eh. If i can speed it out that will help speed it in eh. I think that exhaust pipe venturi on the dukes have something to do with the crazy tourqe very low down that the mille dosent have. Ill let you know if it runs when im done
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 18:20 |
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Reminds me of the then revolutionary Janspeed Maniflo? technology from way back further than I care to admit. They found that matching port and pipe was counter indicated and by having (as I recall it) a D shape pipe against a round port with the D on the pipe bottom under hanging the port it effectivelly stopped a lot of flow reversion at certain revs and gave a noticeable increase in power and more importantly torque everything else being equal. Experiments like that are fine as long as you except you could easily f*kc up the fuelling and need to optimise everything again on a dyno |
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 18:33 |
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Intresting ian.
Il be carefull. And yep i will get it dyno'd afterwards. ![]() Ill get it to Jordan bikes arround the corner.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 19:26 |
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A lot depends on why your doing it. A track rider might get a little benefit from ram air on certain tracks. The average road rider almost none. So even if you could double the potential air pressure at speeds where ram air starts to work, you won’t ever use it. Plus if you have an open air box kit fitted, 90% of them don’t seal well enough to maintain any pressure at all. Half of the air is sucked in around the tank.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:35 |
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I guess im doing it because i like to mess about with stuff i enjoy it.
Tried it on the 2 strokes by opening top of ex and bottom of inlet ports +polishing ports. I like to try air system tune, yes it is for my road bike but i live for track days. I will never sell this bike as it is my 1st bike after i passed my test in 2018. It cost me a grand as a non runner so i have a bike thats begging to be tampered with lol. It is my road going race bike that isnt a racebike if thst makes sense. Until i get it to oulton ![]() |
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