Subject: Re: Engine Dyno Predictions: by jsup on 2008/12/29 1:29:08
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BeachBum wrote:
Jsup, you gotta admit, its a pretty good point ! You do realize that you, JSUP, is the person that brought wet flow testing to the attention of the corvette community . Not me. You have repeatedly stated that wetflow is the good stuff, and that dry flow is meaningless. (that last part is actually an exact quote) My question to you, how does it help ? Power ? Maybe gas mileage or something ? I dunno . Im trying to figure out why you have hung your hat on wetflow testing for so long .. I really do not know. Maybe the word is just cool .. and you thought you would run with that ??? I dunno . You tell me, its your marketing jingle, not mine. But, I do know without a doubt, that you felt it was an advantage and quite frankly the reason why one should purchase a cylinder head over another .. I think you had even gone on to the point of stating that Dart had evolved beyond quoting flow numbers and instead talked about Wetflow ..(That there is another one of those quotes that is just about word for word)
I don't have a marketing jingle. Why do you guys keep acting like I have a dog in this fight? I don't give a rats ass who buys what. I never told anyone NOT to buy AFR but I've seen lot's of leghumpers tell people not to buy other brands. I can point you to at least two other forums where people wanted AFR and I said "that will be great for your application"..
I said wet flow was better than dry flow but not perfect. Repeatedly. Have you even read what I said? Wet flow has its limitations.
On one hand, wet flow, you're talking about designing a head, on the other hand, CNC porting, you're talking about changing that design. Give me a wet flow designed CNC head. If the two were competitive, you could not have both on the same head, it would be one or the other. Right? They are complimentary technology and each has its benefits. That is why it is not a good point.
I also said that this does not mean the hack and guess method does not work. I never said that. I said it is not as scientific and not as elegant. It takes longer to market to get similar results and is more expensive. I laid it out on this here forum, go search it.
Spintron and high speed cameras are the only way to see components in their operational environment, which I went through in detail here, but seeing as it wasn't AFR related, I guess no one wanted to read it.
