Ok I am reading this huge post and I dont know where to even start...
Has any of you ever had some course or info on Fluids and Flows!... perhaps you guys should look into that and then talk about the difference between the OEM set up and the Other design...
Car companies would love to save money in any way they can and if they get rid of that chunky valve body before the throtle plates and all those clamps hoses and connections beleive me they will...
The idea is however to create a specific flow at all speeds in order to create a torque curve that is nice and flat so the car is a blast to drive at any speed...
The combination of the valves allows for steady non turbulent flow to be created at various RPMs, and the Mantzel box has a sweet 90° bend that is absolutely NO-NO for air flow... Air doesnt like to turn at 90°...
The MAF sensor creates a lot of turublance and thast bad for flow... so they had to try to elongate the path to smooth that flow out before it hit the throtle body...
BTW Turbulance is terrible for flow.. it actually restricts flow...
The one thing I can see happening is this... when you step on it.. the matzel box has a give air volume in the chamber right in front of the TBs and with that it allows the engine to tap into that give volume of air right off the get go.. and so you notice the nice kick in the seat... but when the RPMs start to increase I be the torque curve is no longer nice and flat, it probably looks more like the HP curve...
That box I think hurts air flow in many ways... To get more air in the engine you need to increase the diameter of the MAF... and all the pipes and even the Throtle bodies...
If you are not using foced induction you can not get more air into that engine though the small opening of the throtle bodies...
I bet if you looked at a dyno chart before and after... you will see what will happen...
if you like the drivability of the car that way, thats fine...
I will post my dyno charts soon...and you guys can see how much of an improvement the Two mufflers had on the power of the engine...
A better design would be someting where the pipe comes out of the MAF and then splits into two and curves smoothly into the throtle bodies... that i think will have a nice effect on air flow...
More on that later... I got to do some more reasearch on the Mantzel to see why the offer such increase in HP/TQ
