It was just a thought and mine did blow oil into the airbox from time to time...... in the end though, for whatever reason, it does work well and that is all that is important.tony.mon wrote:I don't know if the internal airbox bottle actually passes any heat into the airbox. The pumping action just pumps the same slug of air up and down the pipework leading to the bottle, as far as I can work out.
Otherwise you'd have lots of oil fumes going into the bottle, and there never is any.
So it's more of a pulse of air that's pushed into the airbox, but as the vent hole in the bottle is quite small, the bottle acts as an air reservoir, allowing pressure to build and drop each pulse.
Try running the engine with the lid off and feel with your hand- I don't think it makes much heat as such.
And in any case, the design on Storms means that the airbox snorkel draws air in for between the vee of the cylinders and also pull sin what's gone through the oil cooler.....
I'm convinced that ram air from cool air from the nose would help, even without the slight increase in intake charge pressure. Colder, denser air will take a fraction more fuel and generate bigger bangs.
I had a couple of long talks with Bob H. (RIP) If you don't know that name, he was the US Moriwaki guy and our "Roger" in the US VTR program (along with Dan Kyle) but that is another topic.
Anyways he did give me their set ups and problems running different ram air system, but that is more of a PM conversation to have with you sometime
I wouldn't have replaced the original Ti one for anything other than Ti, I love that Stain Sheen that Ti has, for me i hate the Shinny Bling look of Stainless Steel
