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LOL!
You got balls my man!
That shit would not fly at my house!
Gerardo
You got balls my man!
That shit would not fly at my house!
Gerardo
However... everyone at AFM is telling me that "epoxy-steel" people use to fill the hole is very unsafe. They say it'll flake off, deteriorate, etc from vibration and gas vapors.
I don't want to install the DIYers before I gain some confidence.
What is was Ford's reasoning for these plates in the first place
RH
...and...It is known in the internal combustion engine arts to provide variable valve mechanisms in the runners of the intake air manifold to provide charge motion control. The "charge" refers to the air or air-fuel mixture entering the combustion chamber, and the "motion" refers to the swirling, tumbling motion of that mixture. A charge-control valve serves to disrupt the laminarity of air or air/fuel mixture moving along the intake manifold runner and imparts a specific turbulent motion to the mixture entering the cylinder head. This motion is desirable to promote complete atomization of the fuel in the air stream and to insure even distribution of the air and fuel. A well atomized, homogeneous mixture of air and fuel results in better burn characteristics in the cylinder and allows for more efficient engine operation. Most cylinder heads are designed for good mixture motion at high flow conditions, so a charge motion control valve is needed only for lower rpm or idle conditions to promote charge motion by guiding the flow. During higher flow conditions the valve elements are removed from the flow path to avoid flow restriction. Such restriction can be undesirable at very high air flows wherein high turbulence is already inherent in the flow, and flow restriction should be minimized.
Butterfly-type pivoting valves are well known. The valve element itself is mounted on a pivotable shaft mounted transversely of the air flow path through the runner. In some older prior art embodiments, the shaft is mounted approximately centrally on the valve element, which provides a force-balance valve requiring minimal power for actuation. However, a drawback of this arrangement is that the valve and the shaft, even in the wide open position, create a very large obstruction to the air flow through the runner, which is highly undesirable at high air flow rates in modern engines.
I was wondering about leaving the middle holes open and just tapping and putting a bolt in the end one, anybody ever tried this?? very nice write up!!!
You got balls my man!
That shit would not fly at my house!
Gerardo
I was wondering about leaving the middle holes open and just tapping and putting a bolt in the end one, anybody ever tried this?? very nice write up!!!