AAN Inlet Manifold on ABY

[Lee]

Good work Doug. I am looking forward to seeing it in the flesh. The tooling to make a manifold is MEGA BUCKS but the recurring cost is reasonable if you amortise tooling over a huge batch. It is a big investment and maybe a little bit risky. You will make the tooling money back but how long will it take? I have the manifold all designed in CAD to work around the air-con, PS pump and the only thing missing is to look at keeping the cruise intact for those lucky ******s that have it! I will look at seriously doing this next year when the appropriate investment can be made. If all goes to plan the kit I am looking at providing will be something that could be installed in a weekend by a competent spanner wielder...ie provide a full kit will all bits needed. No-one else has done a full bolt-on kit: they just provide a casting and leave it up to the customer/specialist to get it to fit.

[Billman]

What CAD? What is going on! Are there any Pictures of a short IM with CAD??? Let us see!

Greetings

[Lee]

What CAD? What is going on! Are there any Pictures of a short IM with CAD??? Let us see!

Greetings

CAD = Computer Aided Design. A tool used in engineering to design and analyse hardware in 3D before manufacture. Is that what you are asking????

[Billman]

yes i know what CAD is, are you designing a Short IM for our 5 cylinders?? Do you have any pictures of it?

[Lee]

Sorry Billman, a lot of people do not know what CAD is. I am using my laptop at the moment so don't have the CAD file here. I will see if I can transfer something tomorrow. I have a lot on before my trip to Scotland so you might have to remind me!

And in short, yes I am designing an IM for the I5 with relocated throttle body. I have already spoken to foundries and have found one which produces some fantastic quality...they have been making stuff for the new McLaren Mercedes SLR! The aim is BETTER and CHEAPER than what is currently available.

[Billman]

No prob man!

It will be great if you could send me some pics!

I think many people (me included) will want an Short IM without to have to move any pump or any cooler or have to sacrifice the aircondition and so on!

Greetings

Sorry: Before editing i has written instead of aircondition - intercooler

[audiman]

intercooler is no good for big power. no point in changing the inlet manifold with a stock IC. the only person i know to do this is markh.

[Billman]

I mean the little water cooler and the Air Con cooler!

For sure the stock IC is not for much!
buy

[Billman]

@Lee

Anything new about this short intake?

[WabTheKing]

im currently attempting the aan manifold conversion,

making a bracket to push the pwr ast pumper over so it misses the IM

poss using a skyline gtr intercooler which is the same thickness as a stock IC (good for 550bhp) with a 200sx rad behind it with radtech fans, im thinking this all MAY just fit behind my rs4 style bumper, gonna try all this next weekend as i now have all these parts availble to me

this eliminates the radiator problem,

going to get a straight connecter tig welded on the water manifold instead of the one which points up so it misses the IM will post pictures

[Billman]

I love the design of the SMS inlet manifold! They are very hard to find now! Has someone something like this for me????????
They have a dual chamber design!
Dahlback makes something like this now but for the 1.8 T

Here the SMS (Smidt motorsport) that are no longer available:

[Billman]

Here a Skoda WRC motor with this manifold design (Also at the side of the picture another same manifol)

[Billman]

And the dahlbach one for the 1.8l T

[Mihnea]

The Dahlback manifold for the 1.8T is a copy of the original one for the skoda WRC engine that was designed by Heinz Lehmann.

[Billman]

Yes exactly, Lehmann designed this kind of manifolds for the audi race cars in the 80's!