Settle a small disagreement for me...
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Le Mans Master
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Settle a small disagreement for me...
So myself and a... we'll call them a colleague, were discussing the work I've done to the car and what not and I said I still have the stock small runner intake on it. I was explaining the renegade to him and showed him the port discrepancy between a stock cfi manifold and my heads... anyway, he turned and looked at me and said the thing will be really loud after I hopefully get my hands on a new larger port manifold. I kind of stood there and was like, the manifold won't make the thing louder. He was pretty adamant that it would. Outside of a little more intake noise from flowing more air I can't see the exhaust note changing at all other than being able to rpm easier. I'm pretty certain I'm right here... right? A bang is a bang no?
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Le Mans Master
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Your'e right. Unless it sets up some strange resonance - and I doubt it would - then changing the intake manifold alone won't increase level. If you change the filter and air box setup it could. A lot of people these days refer to that as the "intake," so maybe he's confusing the two things?
Le Mans Master
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Le Mans Master
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Your'e right. Unless it sets up some strange resonance - and I doubt it would - then changing the intake manifold alone won't increase level. If you change the filter and air box setup it could. A lot of people these days refer to that as the "intake," so maybe he's confusing the two things?
Yea I mean he seemed relatively knowledgeable up until that point. Then I was just like... uh... what?
Nice lol.
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Le Mans Master
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Maybe. But again, I showed him pictures of what I was referring to. Idk what he was thinking.
I agree