Talk:Intake

message: Almost every manufacturer produces a model with individual throttle bodies. Not just Nissan and BMW.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.252.64.50 (talk) 16:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  does it save on gas  

message: Intakes are used also in other types of engines (gas turbines, jets) !!!! --Attilios (talk) 14:30, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: MUST BE GENERALIZED!!!!

message: This article needs a lot of work.
There is an article about the intake manifold which is where half of the stuff on this article belongs. 
The intake system has nothing to do with resonance; that is the job of the intake runners. Some car companies created intake MANIFOLDS with variable length runners, NOT variable length intake piping, which is what this article seems to be saying (BTW, Toyota also did this).
Car companies do NOT "carefully tune" the intake to aid performance. If you are lucky they try to make it as un-restrictive as possible...within a certain cost. There is a loose rule for the amount of volume and width you want for the expected air flow of the engine it's attached too, but it's built to cost and is usually far from ideal. The ideal intake piping is NONE. That is why race cars don't use any. If you NEED it to mount and air filter, to get cooler air, or because you are running a turbocharger, the best tubing is short, and smooth. How often do you see short, smooth intakes on factory cars? Not often. Aftermarket intakes (the decent ones) are figured to restrict as little as possible, but they still hurt performance. Also, they don't measure intake flow at the ports last I knew...they measure intake MANIFOLD flow at the ports on the flow bench. Not the same thing at all.
Next, the picture of the Mercedes seems to be showing one of the brake-cooling vents. Even if that does go to the air intake system, it is not part of the intake itself and is very confusing for someone who wants to learn something.
Third, "buffeting and vibration" is turbulence, and it's bad. It is not what you want your intake to do.
-So, factory intakes = designed to make the car as quiet as possible, and hopefully not be too restrictive (they also try to make the volume big enough that throttle response is hurt, but not so big that the airflow slows down too much.)
-Intake manifolds = where resonance and tuning takes place, and are what you measure on a flow bench.
-An intake on a grill =/= an intake system, even if it connects to it (which is very rare).
-Porsche and other = variable length intake runners, not variable length intake piping.
-buffeting and vibrating = bad.
-restriction = bad
-intake piping = restriction
-well designed intake piping = less restricting than some
A.45Colt 14:46, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article in general. 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Intake (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 13:34, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: The term intake as an opening does not only refer to automobile engines and aircraft engines, or even only to the intake of air. It is a general term for a place through which a fluid is admitted to a relative interior from a relative exterior, and the article should be expanded to cover the full scope of this meaning. There are also other meanings, and it is not immediately obvious which one is the primary meaning, or even if there is a primary meaning. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 05:26, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope of the article should match scope of the term 

message: An intake can be an outlet at the same time – the intake for a hydro-electric generator turbine may be an outlet for a dam, where the turbine is inside relative to the dam, and the dam is inside relative to the river valley below. 
Is there a simpler way to say it? ThanksPieter1963 (talk) 21:51, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: I can't figure this out

message: The black grille is identified as "the engine intake". It was pointed out some years ago by .45colt that it looked more it supplies air for brake cooling. Can this be clarified? Thanks Pieter1963 (talk) 15:40, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: ref the photo of the Mercedes