I'm currently looking at a new intake manifold/plenum for my '93 GTS25T, and am probably going down the route of a custom built one. The Plazmaman one is certainly better for my purposes (DD and HPDE - road circuit), as it keeps the longer runners. What's the entry to the runners look like from the inside of the plenum? I've never been able to find a picture of inside the plenum to see if they use flared entries. If someone with a unit off the car and with no TB on it could snap a shot of the internals, I'd appreciate it!
I'm still concerned about 2 design issues of this plenum:
1. Air still needs to make a tight 90* bend into the runners from the plenum. This is going to affect both air speed and turbulence within the plenum.
2. Though offsetting the TB helps, air distribution will not be equal across all runners. Without doing some comprehensive CFD modelling, it looks like air will either focus on runners #3 & 4 (where TB is "aimed") or #6 (common problem for any type of log-style plenum with TB at one end).
The approach I'm possibly taking with mine is to use a dual-chamber design that feeds air into the main plenum equally across the length of the chamber, and parallel to the runner inlets. If anyone is interested, I've started my design/build thread here:
Custom RB25DET intake manifold/plenum
BTW - I'm not a business and this is not a "commercial" response to this thread. Just doing this on my own!