Damn..that's some deep dodo...

I thunk it was mashin' the gas pedal...

static and differential pressure...

mechanics of liquids....

gas is essentially a liquid....No?

just not as dense..like me....

 

Callightning,
I never would have imagined that...
Says a lot for the design and the advantage of having a supercharger for a air pump.

Heck, we used to just turn the top over on the air cleaner on our old carburated engines and notice a difference in power and sometimes even got better gas mileage.

Nobody had dyno's then. You new you were making more power cause the rubber marks you left were longer
Of course there was no FM stereo or tape players then ether.

 

If you guys are really interested in this subject, check out "Scientific Design of Exhaust and Intake Systems" (third edition) by Philip H. Smith and John C. Morrison. Its no longer available in stores, but you can get it from amazon.com. Both these guys have PHD's in Mech Engineering, and spent most their careers designing intake and exhaust systems for F1 cars. Its 274 pages of very intense scientific design and testing, definately a good read.

 

Becasue they probably don't want to replace their headers every few years because they rusted out.