With well over 1,500 hours of design, prototype development, machining, and testing, CSF, along with partners VF Engineering (USA) and Custom Plenum Creations (Australia), has now brought a state-of-the-art CNC machined, high-performance Charge-Air Cooler Manifold to the B58 platform for Mk5 Supra and BMW models. This product solves what has been commonly known as a weak link of an otherwise impressive new engine platform.
With the larger and more efficient water-to-air intercooler performance, lower pressure drop across the system, included fuel rail, kit for top feed port injection, and several other industry-leading features, the CSF Super Manifold will allow B58 owners to maximize the performance of their vehicles and push the limits further than what has been previously possible with this new platform.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THE CSF/VF MANIFOLD HAD MUCH LOWER INLET TEMPERATURES, RIGHT ABOUT 230 DEGREES OR 30 DEGREES COOLER THAN THE STOCK MANIFOLD WHILE THE OUTLET TEMPERATURES WERE ABOUT 6 DEGREES COOLER, UNDER 125 DEGREES. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THE DATA THAT FIRST MEETS THE EYE. THE LOWER INLET TEMPERATURES ARE AN INDICATOR THAT THE RESTRICTION TO AIRFLOW ACROSS THE CORE IS MUCH LOWER. THIS IS TO BE EXPECTED OF THE LARGER FRONTAL AREA OF THE CORE. WITH LESS INTAKE RESTRICTION, THE COMPRESSOR OF THE ENGINE’S TURBO IS RUNNING MUCH FARTHER AWAY FROM THE SURGE LINE IN A MORE EFFICIENT AREA OF THE COMPRESSOR MAP. WITH GREATER EFFICIENCY, THE TURBO IS HEATING THE INTAKE AIR A LOT LESS. SINCE THE COMPRESSOR IS WORKING MUCH MORE EFFICIENTLY, THE TURBINE DOESN’T NEED TO RECOVER AS MUCH POWER FROM THE EXHAUST STREAM TO PRODUCE THE SAME BOOST AND THUS THERE IS LESS BACKPRESSURE. THIS IN TURN INCREASES THE ENGINE’S TOTAL VOLUMETRIC EFFICIENCY. THIS IS A SYNERGISTIC CASCADE THAT WILL INCREASE POWER AND REDUCE STRAIN ON THE ENGINE AND ITS COMPONENTS WHICH HAS A MUCH MORE PROFOUND IMPACT THAN JUST LOWER INTERCOOLER OUTLET TEMPERATURES.
On the outlet tank, each cylinder runner has a 1/8th NPT port which can be used for nitrous or methanol injection (a popular power modification on the B58 engine). The CSF manifold allows for maximum spray control and even spray distribution throughout the engine. A nitrous system set-up specifically for the CSF manifold will be coming soon from industry leaders Nitrous Express.
A handful of cars at TX2K had blown their engines due to the way their nitrous systems were plugged into their vehicles. With the OEM plastic manifold, a single spray system is most commonly used as threading into plastic to insert an injector node is already very difficult to install properly. The single fogger system, more often than not, will create unequal distribution of spray in the engine, either giving some cylinders too much or too little spray. This will increase the chance of severely damaging the engine.
An extruded fuel rail is included with the CSF manifold. It can be attached to the outlet side of the manifold. The AN-8 fuel rail comes with feed and return -8 internal hex plug fittings from Radium Engineering for a plug and play installation.
On the side of the manifold inlet, CSF has included a 3 port pad into the machining of the tank. This can be used to measure additional parameters or as an additional vacuum source. These three 1/8th NPT ports can be plugged with the included hardware kit if they are not used.
Another exclusive feature of the CSF manifold is the inclusion of an air divider welded into the inlet side tank of the manifold. With the length of the design, the engineers at VF Engineering wanted to make sure that the volume and velocity of air received to the back of the manifold to cylinder areas four, five, and six would be equal to the airflow passed through the front half of the manifold for cylinders one, two, and three. After extensive simulations in SolidWorks CFD software, an air divider was added to the design to ensure the best possible and equal cooling performance to each cylinder of the engine.
Included in the supplied hardware kit is several brackets, bolts, washers, and mounting posts to be able to install the OEM and OEM-style engine covers. This is an industry-exclusive feature to the CSF x VF Engineering design, and was extremely difficult to not only engineer, but to manufacture as well. An array of items come vacuum packaged with corresponding letters listed on an easy to use Bill-of-Materials List (BOM) along with exploded diagrams and a simple order of operation procedure list to follow for installation. Made with racers and DIY enthusiasts in mind.
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