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Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:56 pm
by gruhsy
Finally bought these while in the US. Slowly building intake.
Re: Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:17 pm
by Darwin
Those bends look so cool! I’ve started having a fascination with fabrication since I started working with sheet metal in school. Are you going to harvest a flange from an old intake or have one cut? Any idea what the final design may look like? I always disliked ones like LR.
Re: Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:17 pm
by Darwin
It also makes me shiver to see calipers split. I heard that was a bad idea, no?
Re: Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 4:30 pm
by gruhsy
The caliper mating surface is untouched.
I would guess the problem comes with changing that face.
As far as the plenum neither will be like the LR design.
They will differ slightly on throttle entrance to see how they compare to each other.
I will create a cad file eventually.
Re: Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:21 pm
by gruhsy
Will cut a new flange as it’s super easy to do and will keep the injectors in the exact same position.
Re: Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:05 pm
by Tom
Looks like a fun and cool project! Are you a TIG welder and is that all aluminum? Do you access to a flow bench to make sure all 4 runners are delivering the same flow? Or maybe some homebrew leaf blower flow bench? Either way, very interested in following along and see how it turns out!! Thanks for sharing it here!!
(p.s., where did you get the bell-mouths?)
Re: Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:02 pm
by gruhsy
The bellmouths were machined at Fidelity Machine and Mold here in Calgary.
It’s my friends machine shop where I dropped off the lifters.
I will tig weld.
They are the same runners Refresh951 used.
As far as flow bench I’m not sure. I would prefer to play around with tuning on the car. The runners of course will be equal length and port matched to the cylinder head.
Both intakes will have different plenum designs/shape
All 6061
Re: Elipse bellmouths and runners
Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:14 pm
by Thom
You will need a flow bench to work on each runner to balance flow between them when you will be shaping the plenum.