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as of Jan 10 2023, this is the longest technical article on the site. I think it should be broken up. I propose to move intake tuning to a new specific page.

(I dont know where this should go: The intake manifold typically runs from the plenum to the cylinder heads / air intake ports on the engine. It's design can be adjusted to increase performance using the tuning methods below. The manifold also contains ports for the fuel injectors. (i think this is a great place for it, maybe a section about intake structure above this to clear up all the terminology? -simon)

Maybe make an intake system terminology section? I agree though, probably better to have more than less information

[citation?, not sure how to cite that I saw like 5/100 at competition in Michigan and Lincoln, maybe the competition handbooks?| i can go through my FSAE MI 2018 handbook this weekend, but its only 120 teams, out of the hundreds in the world, maybe a FB and reddit poll? Going through the competition pamphlet is useless, most teams don't list if theyre boosting]

120 hp sounds very high, is this reasonable?

no, but it's an approximation, its not taking a lot of things into account so it serves as a rough upper bound. I may have messed up the math, so if you're doubting the numbers, please double check. The major assumption here is steady flow at mach 1 being why the restrictor restricts, which we know isn't true, as engines have pulsed air inflow which drops our hp limit.If you want to, it would really help to list all the other shit that drops the limit and do the math behind it, so this page can be more helpful. There's another limit of enigne speed which is written up on the engine page, which also has a lower limit, which makes the same, faulty assumption.