Radiator hose intake manifold

[Ross Forgione]

I have seen emergency radiator hoses that you can bend to any shape.
You buy them straight and bend to suit. To stop them from collapsing
when bent, the manufacturers use an internal coil of wire. Coil
spacings are about 8mm apart. The wall of the hose has a spiraled
corrigation built into it to maintain the even spacing of the coil.
This may make it unsuitable for the Manifold app. Perhaps you could use
a similar method to strengthen a standard hose eliminating the
corrigations but still maintaining the coil spacings.

Just a suggestion.




> 
> On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Daniel Burk wrote:
> 
> > We built one and nick-named
> > it the "Squid".
> 
> Aha!
> 
> My current system has a short piece of rubber tube, but that would be 
> *before* the butterflies. Changing the throttle position would locate 
> them *after* on the vacuum side of things, which obviously is another cup 
> of tea altogether. Didn't think of that.
> 
> So that leaves me with two options, GRP or metal. From what I have seen 
> of exhaust systems, I have a suspicion that metal tube bent to the radius 
> I need wouldn't be possible without distorting the inside of the bend.
> 
> That leaves GRP, which perhaps could be cast using a suitable radiator hose 
> as a core.
> 
> Egil
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