I have headers to build for my Ducati project so i am doing my research.
Being 2 cylinders and a simple compact engine its far less complicated than a car engine. With understanding the ideas behind getting the vacuum pulse to hit the overlap and aid in scavenging the cylinder, there are some great calculators out that seem to help get you in the ball park for tubing diameters, lengths at given egt’s, but I cant seem to find a simple calculator that will help with the bends.
understanding that the bends, the merge angles, and other small variables impact the design I want to start with just the bends and how they theoretically add “length” to a design. I am not talking physical length, i am talking about pressure and velocity difference when the tubing hits an XXX deg bend with a CLR of X"s.
I know SW can help me flow a tube with bends and give me some numbers, but I dont have the time to sit infront of the computer and design something, yet.
My idea is to design each primary as close to symetric as i can. So if i have 400 degrees of 6" CLR bends and 25" of straight tube to make Primary A, i try to do the same thing for primary B (if packaging allows under the bike), then hit a merger point at symetric points and put a single short muffler section on after that as straight as I can.
So what ever links, ideas, data, pictures, what ever you can come up with just blast them in here.
This is what I have sofar:
Length=204,000/(.85*redline) measured from Valve seat to (I think the merger point, cant confirm that yet)
140mb PDF for a book on tuning 4 stroke engines, lots of people suggest it for exhaust information.
http://hotfile.com/dl/96853340/4295ed4/Four_Stroke_Performance_Tuning_3rd_Ed_-_A_Graham_Bell.pdf