LOL! Easy guys!

JBauer:

My reasoning for buying the Trickflow plenum was based on Accufabs flow comparisons. Sure, Accufabs flows the best but Trickflows wasn't far behind and I'm sure this was with a stock plenum. If Accufab is willing to post these numbers of a competitors flow numbers then I'm convinced that their product, for the money, is worth the investment. I wonder if by polishingthe TF plenumyou could get even closer to Accufabs numbers?

John

 

I would say try it...like mr. kentucky aka yankee haha only joking jrhearld stated he done his so it can be done so if I was you I would just do it since it is on your mind anyways lol. BTW sorry to get so worked up some people just dog trickflow alot....

 

If you have nothing but time to waste on your hands and you're bored, then do it. IMO it's just something that you can say to someone that has no clue at all, hoping they will be in awe that you have a polished plenum. Personally, i'd rather water the yard than polish a plenum.

 

i polished mine because i tookmy plenumback off my car to sell it and never did so i was bored one day and ported and polished it im just waitingto buythe 75mm t/b before i reinstall it. like i said before it only took all of 20 mins to do this and a monkey could do it!!!its that easy!!!

 

well i just don't like trickflows business ethic. They stole my money.. Then I said so on a thread a while back,then Trickflow got all bent out of shape and came in here, andstarted defending themselves.. Fine. They PMd me, you know how people think they are in the right, you know? Then they asked me what happend, i told them how they sent me a defective product and told me to get lost. The guy said he'd have to make sure of these claims with the ebay store who sent me the plenum.. I said HA! go ahead! thats exactly what happend, he told me he'd get back to me. It's been months. My guess is he didn't bother to show face when he found out what kind of SCUM BAGS he works with. The Ebay store i bought it from was FURIOUS when he found out how trickflow was treating me, he evencontacted trickflow and theyBSd him too.Ebay store told me that he'd even give me a discount the next time i bought something from him, WP performance treated me Right. They get a thumbs up.They know they are in the wrong, and they know there stuff is crap. The internets a big place, but i'll be making sure the 50 or so people I know in real life will not be buying a trickflow product, even if it means I pay the diffrence when they buy another product (Which I have) and i've gotten a few of my friends to sell their trickflow plenums too.

 

The rough finish actually creates a turbulent boundary layer that reduces aerodynamic drag; this is quite counterintuitive but it's also quite true. Most modern fighter planes do not have polished wings because of this and many have dimpled leading edges for the same reason (think "golfball").

Porting can make a difference if adjoining passages are really messed up dimensionally, or because of gasket recession or protrusion (both of which happen far less often now than they did 20 years ago due to modern casting CNC machining technologies). However just polishing internal passsges just for the sake of making it pretty will not add much if any power.

 

I swear i learn something new everytime iread one of CliffyKs posts.
Still,The flow charts show Trickflow flows the least of all the plenums.

 

The C&L was the worst performer until they put the 75 mm TB on it, however they are all entirely adequate for any 4.6 L 2V n/a setup. The most the engine could possibly suck in isless than 500cfm (at 6500 rpmand 95% VE) and with a 70 mm TB they all met that requirement at 1.5 inHg pressure differential.[/align][/align]It would be really neat to see back-to-back dyno testing of all of these, with no other changes. I'd bet they would all be within 3 to 4 HP or less of one another.[/align]

 

God has spoken! I will digress!

Thank you Cliffy for saving me a few hours of elbow grease!

John