dumetre

anyone have pics of them? Looking to brace my ram horn manifold.

onefstek

no need if the mani is done right

MidShipCivic

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Yeah 120lbs of manifold for the lose.

RCautoworks

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If you are using 16 or 18 gauge there is, no matter what.

k24em2

jamheg1101

what is that off of the comressor housing. the thing that looks like a frisbee attached to the actual compressor housing?

cua0

if i recall correctly its the throttlebody

some weird thing renault did in the 80s
heh

k24em2

Thats what I thought. Perhaps like a shutter?

91jdmhatchback

That looks complicated.

I Have an STD

that pic seriously just made my head hurt

snoochtodanooch

the shutter would make sense, keep those intake velocities up even under part throttle.

93preludes

what are those labels at the bottom? M M F_X Off?

k24em2

It's a picture of a shutter from a camera.

Banned HT Member

Godamn Frenchies

dfoxengr

thats odd. ive been thinking of how to redesign tb's lately and that was one of my better ideas...

Enzo-Racing

many turbo F1 cars had the TB's in front of the turbo.

MidShipCivic

I'm not buying that as a throttle the map or maf signal would be funky on that thing with the throttle there.

2point2

maybe it just helps dissipate heat?????

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Bracing the downpipe seems much easier?

This is the way I look at it:

The "ram horn" should hold a tubo no problem.. it's the engine torquing vs the exhaust that could put a lot of stress on the manifold. The engine acts like a pry bar to your manifold. A flex pipe should fix this but I'd still rather have some bracing on the downpipe to keep the forces from fighting each other. They'll do this with any high-production 'header' (inluding OEM!!) so why not.

Mr.E.G.

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maybe its just a filter. a screen type thing

k24em2

Well its got those two cables off the side of that part, so that kinda lends to the throttle idea. As stated earlier renault did some wacky **** in the 80s.

all_motor_mike

why dont u do it like dmarino did his.

Enzo-Racing

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There were alot more cars besides renault running tb's in front of the turbo.
And i'm pretty sure they had a good handle on how to tune their cars.

Here's one of BMW's engine...

all_motor_mike

is that a carbon fiber compressor housing? if so thats freaking sick!

Mr.E.G.

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And i'm pretty sure they had a good handle on how to tune their cars.

Here's one of BMW's engine...
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so whats the idea behind this? is this "the" trottle body for the engine or is there a conevntional throttle body setup and a throttle for the turbo. anybody have any idea what the advantage of this type of setup would be?

Mr.E.G.

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yeah i guess i missed that. my bad