Your intake manifold. It takes in air and sends it to your engine's combustion chamber. This is basically the start of the combustion process. After all, you can't have combustion without air.

When Porsche designs an intake manifold, they do things differently. While most car companies try to increase pressure of air entering an engine, Porsche tries to expand that air. Here's how it works.

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Porsche often does things backwards—just look at the 911, keeper of the rear-engine flame. But that philosophy extends to smaller things, too, as Jason Fenske of the YouTube channel Engineering ...

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Form and Function - A Look at Intake Manifold Design: Intake manifolds play a huge part of power production, here’s some of the hows and whys Internal combustion engines are fairly simply machines.

Fitting Porsche Motorsport's beloved 4.0-liter flat-six in a 718 Cayman required the automaker to redesign the intake. In addition to the typical intakes behind the doors, there are new intakes ...