Hi Russ,
Did you get any where with this? I have my airbox off at the moment!
Off topic, would the colours your engine is painted be standard? My GT4 has gloss black cam covers - yours look so much neater!
Interestingly and purely by coincidence I knocked up a similar shaped airbox for my last car which ran twin side draft webers 40 DCOEs, Although it was aonly a 1300 Triumph it still produced 135 bhp which was quite impressive (the airbox was not the only mod)! If you can squeeze 135 out of a Triumph Spitfire lump, is it possible to get 290+ out of the Ferrari V8?
On the triumph, the setup was as follows:
Stage 3 Engine Ground, Stroked, Indexed, Tuftride Lead/Copper Bearings 010/010 - Bored, Rodded, Acid dipped. Whole rotating assembly balanced, including pistons and conrods the Flywheel was Lightened and balanced, AE Hepolite +030 Pistons Kent TH3 Camshaft with duplex timing set.
Manifold Triumph Tune 4-2-1 exhaust manifold
Cylinder -ead Triumph Tune Stage 3 unleaded cylinder head the Rocker gear Triumph Tune Roller Rocker assembly and lightened hollow pushrods with Twin Weber 40 DCOE carbs and Piranha Electronic Ignition
The engine was built by Williams racing for me and was truley awesome HOWEVER.. Surely most of this would be standard (not withstanding the differences between the two motors) on the Ferrari V8 taking into concideration its pedigree? (
http://home.btconnect.com/ntruman/Spitfire/index.htm)
regards
Nick