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Carburetor Airflow Optimization

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What happens here

After successful initial testing, the team moved on to modifying the carburetor. This involved taking a standard carburetor and installing "air straighteners" (honeycomb-like inserts) to ensure a more accurate and even airflow measurement for the sensors. Additionally, brass tubing was installed inside the carburetor in an "X" pattern, allowing engineers to visualize and measure the air distribution directly as it entered the engine.

Goal: Modify the carburetor to achieve optimal and measurable airflow distribution for more precise testing data.

Tools and materials

  • Air Straighteners — Ensuring laminar airflow for accurate measurements
  • Brass Tubing — Installing inside the carburetor for air distribution measurement
  • Carburetor Holley — The component being modified for airflow testing
  • Flow bench Superflow — Testing and dialing in the carburetor modifications

What they say

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on the carburetor, you know, if we can get by this time, you know, we're getting this and we're feeling pretty good about things because we had took that. We ran it on the chassis dyno car. I think Jay Gers did that for us if I remember right. And everything's looking really good. It's correlating. It's working good. So, we got real confident and that was we got this all done within like two weeks. that part like it was like 247 because six weeks Steve meant when he said six weeks he meant six weeks. So we get down to this part and we're still trying to figure out how to actually make this all spin. So we took this carburetor and we said well since we can work on that let's take a carburetor and we put these air straighteners in it. But this carburetor, if you come over here, it's we put the brass tubing inside the carburetor going both ways and made an X in the carburetor so we can see distribution of the air actually going through carburetor. So, so we got that all figured out. I think they think we took this over to the flow bench over in the engine shop. Gino took this and dialed this all in over in the at, you know, on the flow bench. Did you have to put these the honeycomb in there to make that more accurate? You wouldn't have that in there. That was determined by the engineers. I believe they did that so it would get a better we get a better shot at the sensors, you know, these sensors. I'm sure they got little all kind of cooler stuff. This 25 years ago, so we were just shooting from the hip with some of this stuff, you know. Um, but I'm sure Gino had a great reason for that. He was one of the when it came to building this stuff and making air turn into numbers and colors and pitchers. Gino was the best of the best and you know Jo Cosmeire as far as you know deciphering what it all meant is the best of the best. One of the greatest race engineers I've ever met and had the opportunity to work with. So So now we

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