Alex Madsen wrote:

After a day of research on the topic I am seriously considering
making a
Carbon Fiber Intake Manifold for sale to the public. I do not have
much
experience with composite construction so I would need some practice
and
R&D time. I will be very busy the next 3 weeks with school and finals
but after that I hope to do some R&D on a CF manifold.

What do you think the market size is for a complete tuned manifold?
Anyone who would be interested in purchasing one in the next 2 years
pleases e-mail me and include the engine date and number of ports. NO
obligation to buy. I would like to get an idea of the current demand.

Alex Madsen
madsena@rose-hulman.edu

Mechanical Engineering JR
Rose-Hulman

Alex,  I am willing to bet that the demand is going to be for P Port
intake manifolds.   Needed are two intake runners that can except two
injectors ea.   so that they can all be hooked to a single fuel rail,
in other words the injectors have to be in line.  The throttle body is
2 inch o.d. Paul published a nice Rhino drawing of this and I am hoping
he will produce a casting.  But a nice CF version would be......nice.
Jerry

 
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