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[motorcycle.com] - Variable Intake Velocity


Dear MOby,

What are variable intake manifolds? How do they work and why?

Walter Barlow


Dear Walter,

If you’d not been paying attention in high school and reading Hot Rod magazine, you’d know that low-end power is boosted by longer intake and exhaust tracts, and high-rpm power generally increases with shorter ones. Tuning the lengths of the intake bellmouths and exhaust header pipes is a science and black art they’ve been doing on engines forever.

Now we’re talking torquey: Can-Am cars in the ’70s used big-block V-8s tuned for torque in part by using long intake runners.


In smaller motorcycle engines, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have intake runners with adjustable lengths, so you could boost torque at low rpm and let the engine breathe at high rpm? Automobiles, in which costs and complexities are relatively easy to hide, have used this technology for years. The first time I recall seeing this, in my motorcycle memory, was on the first MV Agusta F4 in 1998 (lead foto), which used a vacuum deal to move its intake bellmouths up and down depending on rpm.

Yamaha liked the idea so much, it adopted it for the 2007 Yamaha R1 and gave it a catchy acronym, YCC-I, Yamaha Chip Controlled Intake, at which link you’ll find an excellent explanation of how and why it all works, including videos.

Funnels up! At a certain predetermined rpm, the R1 was ready for high-rpm horsepower production.


Meanwhile, not to be out-acronymed, Suzuki says it’s achieved at least partially the same variable intake function in its new GSX-R1000, using no moving parts whatsoever. Inside the airbox, a new Suzuki Dual-Stage Intake (S-DSI) system claims to deliver the advantages of variable-length intake funnels without the extra weight, complexity and cost. Two of the four intake funnels use a new stacked dual-stage design, with a longer funnel positioned above a short funnel, and a gap between the two parts.



“At low and mid rpm, most of the air flows through the longer, upper funnel into the short funnel, increasing low-end and midrange power and torque,” says Suzuki. “At higher rpm, more air flows around the base of the longer upper funnel and directly into the short lower funnel, increasing top-end power and torque. The combination of two S-DSI funnels and two conventional funnels helps produce a broader, smoother powerband and a seamless transition from low and mid-range into the higher rpm range.”

The new Suzuki’s powerband is also widened by its use of variable valve timing, which may be a first on a high-performance production literbike. Duke’s test of the bike is here.


Fun stuff, thanks for asking. Takes me back to the time my Chevelle backfired through its “velocity stack” and set fire to the foam rubber I was using to seal the hole to the hood scoop. Crude but ineffective.

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