Air Intake- An Insight View

ign="center">Modernized air intake systems consist basically of
Air Intake as the name suggests is an intake of airthree parts, a throttle body, a mass flow sensor and
for the engine. The function of air intake is toan air filter. Most cars have a silencer to minimize any
provide great efficiency and power and thus it shouldnoise entering into the vehicle's cabin. But
be tuned and engineered in a way to serve thisperformance lovers remove silencers as they impede
purpose. Ideally an air intake increases the velocity ofthe flow of air creating turbulence and reducing
the air flow until it hits and travels into thepower.
combustion chamber of the engine. It shouldManufactured cars have a specific length of air
alongside minimize any turbulence and flow restriction.intakes as provided for by the manufacturers to
It was felt necessary to achieve a state of the artassist the flow of air in to the combustion system.
inlet design for performing optimal air flow at anyCompanies providing aftermarket products for cars
given speed with the advanced development of thehave come up with relatively larger throttle bodies
jet engine. Also it was figured out to prevent anyand filters to monitor the restriction of flow for a
suppression of work in the first stage ofconsiderable increase in torque or power.
compression by a jet engine by reducing the speedPorsche came up with a custom designed intake
of air at just under subsonic level at the entrance ofsystem in the 80s for their superior cars that included
the compressor also keeping maintaining thealtered length of the intake system by shifting
necessary air flow at optimum level. This led to thebetween a shorter and longer set of tubes using
invention of a new design called the "inverse droplet"something called a butterfly valve, which created a
of an air spike available in conus or semiconus typesmall amount of pressure increasing the overall
as the most commonly used idea under the design ofperformance of the engine.
hypersonic and supersonic inlet. A test in the portAir intakes may be classified into Cold Air intake,
design state on a flow bench helps accomplishing theShort ram air intake, Intake ramp, Ram air intake and
above tasks. Usually cars have dramatically improvedthe Warm air intake.
performance if they have turbo or superchargersERZ performance is a online retailer for HKS exhaust,
which enable a pressurized intake system leading toMegan racing and Tein Springs.
an extensive tweaking of intake system.