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Old 08-16-2014, 02:29 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
A survey of prior art on Google shows that two rows is most popular situated somewhere away from the center line, consistent with aerohead's example:




A whole hood-full may be counterproductive here. A sealed engine bay might have them clustered toward the front.
Paul van Valkenburgh,in his race car engineering book talked about a static pressure surveys to establish sweet spots for various locations.
He double-drilled sections of plex,to create static ports,ran Tygon tubing from all of them to a selector valve,and from there to a manometer or Magnehelic to read the pressures.
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