I didn't know the ram tubes had a hole for water drain...interesting.
The exhaust pipes/headers do as well. This is for condensation. We still run thru a fog of droplets, you just don't think about it until you drive thru a cold fog or a cloud laying on a mountain road. So between you riding the bike all hot is the body, the term, 'send it to the barn wet' is exactly what is going to happen: your chambers cool off. I pulled a muffler off the bike, I see this puddle of water sitting on the carbon, just inches from the drain hole. Ever see the spitting around the back of the muffler? That's the water/condensation being pushed out that was sitting there that morning/days sitting. Let the bike idle, it will evaporate and not show as spot out the tip.
... how much per second or millisecond...how are any type of 'harmonic waves' gonna have time to appear and disrupt a smooth fast flow?
Math. Nature is a balanced creature. If there is any imbalance it will be: what valve opened sooner are the two intake valves. Think like this. We have 4 cylinders, 4 processes. So only one cylinder is going to be sucking, the other 3 cylinders are on their compression/power/exhaust strokes. We are watching the one intake open is this stroke. So when we see those two valves beating the seats not equally, but one is getting the shim to pound to who pounds more/less/equally? So no, there is no harmonic wave being that fast and it is going to wait for 3 more strokes? No. Like The Hand said, 200+ boys/girls are watching 14.7 all dead is the air. Makes that needle not move at the fastest speed, no? And HA! Those are 3 air cleaners without ram assist up front = Same effect.
Once the pistons are moving...aren't they really dictating the amount of air that enters the cylinder?
Correct. That which rests in motion and all that. The weak piston is the ring end gap being too wide. That is air lost when sucking is one. So look at that piston ring as one ring only. Look at the gap of 4 CD's stacked up together. See how wide that makes the ring's gap? Now, when the piston goes up or down it leaves a column of air the length of that gap. Now think 2 more gaps that wide are the other rings under that first compression ring. So yes, the piston pull, then to hold what it sucked is not much power to compress either. Catch how that dictates?
I can't see that whole 'system' having any fat in it.No 'extra' air....I mean...the intake of air is only being moved basically by the pistons,yes?
Yes
At idle...you don't have any air being forced into the airbox.It only starts becoming 'forced' as speed climbs...which is directly porportional(in a sense)to the piston speeds...right?
No and yes. Idle, we are 14.7 in the box. 200+ we remain 14.7 in the box is the proportion. That low rpm leave from the light, I suck everything out of that box and yank on the air cleaner. You can see the needle peak, then hear the engine rev to cause it. Then it settles out to 14.7 if sustained in throttle. And open throttle, it eats the ram chamber up.
If it can't get into the piston cylinder..then WHERE is it gonna go?
Do you see how and where? Not head, but in the crankcase.
...the pistons are pulling in huge amounts of air...I can't see harmonics (waves)being able to set up and sustain themselves.I don't think the engineers designed this engine with those possibilities at all.I think they worked all that out.
I think the engineers are stuck with this 4-cylinder setup. Pick any inline, it just repeats itself. So begin counting how many brands have used twins/triples/inline-4/Goldwing-6/Guzzi-V8, see the repetition that one is going to be sucking only? V8-283 had one set of points. It just opened and closed 8-times was one cylinder on the suck.
I don't think there's any 'shockwaves' occurring anywhere after it enters the filter and heads into the intake ports.The pressure is 14.7....and the head and all that has been redesigned to create a smooth flow regardless of what's entering the airbox.The pistons are calling the shots on the flow volume.
The chemical reaction and the friction the air made, you bet your sweet bippee you clap your hands you made air move in a wave. You throw the pebble in the water, that ripple is the wave. Mess with air you mess with the wave, be it sonic or sound.
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