Check out the interview about the inner workings of Magnus Motorsports, thanks to the guys at Mitsubishi Gearbox Magazine. This is what happens at Magnus during the winter months, this is what we are about, minus the funny hats. Tell your friends, its a great read, Marco swears like a trucker…
Gearbox Magazine – Inside Looks at Magnus Motorpsports >
History
If you’ve been around long enough, you remember when Magnus brought affordable 4 cylinder intake manifolds to the mass market. That was 12 years ago. From our humble beginnings of hacking up and reworking stock manifolds, to our signature tapered plenum sheetmetal offerings, our designs continue to be improved and refined. Since our first designs, we have constantly pushed the envelope of 4 cylinder engine technology, particularly intake manifold design, to performance levels we never dreamed would be possible when we first started down this road. The latest generation sheetmetal Magnus intake manifold is on its 8th revision, and each change performed better than the previous version. How did we do it? Through constant research, advanced airflow studies, reinvestment in new technologies, and most of all, through racing. We race what we sell, we sell what we race – and our stuff wins. We don’t just videotape our test runs, we compete at the highest levels of motorsports where “second best” isn’t good enough to take home the win.
Improving ‘The Original’
Magnus broke new ground with our revolutionary cast EVO V5 manifold. Casting allows subtle changes to the interior profile of the manifold nearly impossible to duplicate with a welded-up manifold – subtle changes that make huge differences to the way the air flows through the manifold. The Magnus EVO V5 rewrote the rules for making big power on the EVO platform.
No sooner did we release the EVO V5 than customers started demanding a version for 1G DSMs. We listened. We took what we learned from the development of the EVO V5 and applied those lessons to the 1G DSM. The results will astound you.
The Goals
The genesis of this project was as a design exercise to extract even more power from the world’s most powerful Mitsubishi Eclipse. Magnus is proud to be the engine builder for Brent Rau’s Eclipse, which has been smashing records since 2006 as the first 6 second, 4 cylinder door slammer. Brent’s Magnus powered machine develops an estimated 1500hp depending on which configuration he is running, and it is has proven time and time again to be the fastest 4 cylinder drag motor in the world. Maxing out the turbocharger at 96psi – that’s not a typo, that’s ninety-six PSI of boost, we decided to see if there was any way to make more power through an intake manifold redesign.
