| ign="center"> | | | | Modernized air intake systems consist basically of |
| Air Intake as the name suggests is an intake of air | | | | three parts, a throttle body, a mass flow sensor and |
| for the engine. The function of air intake is to | | | | an air filter. Most cars have a silencer to minimize any |
| provide great efficiency and power and thus it should | | | | noise entering into the vehicle's cabin. But |
| be tuned and engineered in a way to serve this | | | | performance lovers remove silencers as they impede |
| purpose. Ideally an air intake increases the velocity of | | | | the flow of air creating turbulence and reducing |
| the air flow until it hits and travels into the | | | | power. |
| combustion chamber of the engine. It should | | | | Manufactured 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 art | | | | assist the flow of air in to the combustion system. |
| inlet design for performing optimal air flow at any | | | | Companies providing aftermarket products for cars |
| given speed with the advanced development of the | | | | have come up with relatively larger throttle bodies |
| jet engine. Also it was figured out to prevent any | | | | and filters to monitor the restriction of flow for a |
| suppression of work in the first stage of | | | | considerable increase in torque or power. |
| compression by a jet engine by reducing the speed | | | | Porsche came up with a custom designed intake |
| of air at just under subsonic level at the entrance of | | | | system in the 80s for their superior cars that included |
| the compressor also keeping maintaining the | | | | altered length of the intake system by shifting |
| necessary air flow at optimum level. This led to the | | | | between 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 type | | | | small amount of pressure increasing the overall |
| as the most commonly used idea under the design of | | | | performance of the engine. |
| hypersonic and supersonic inlet. A test in the port | | | | Air intakes may be classified into Cold Air intake, |
| design state on a flow bench helps accomplishing the | | | | Short ram air intake, Intake ramp, Ram air intake and |
| above tasks. Usually cars have dramatically improved | | | | the Warm air intake. |
| performance if they have turbo or superchargers | | | | ERZ performance is a online retailer for HKS exhaust, |
| which enable a pressurized intake system leading to | | | | Megan racing and Tein Springs. |
| an extensive tweaking of intake system. | | | | |