I believe i know what the airbox mesh does for the rx8.
Have you seen those fancy fountains that shoot small "glassy beams" across the water, they acheive that by the reducing "turbulance" in the water (as opposed to blasting it out of a tap, messy, quite airated, etc)
And firefighters had problems in the 40s with new york buildings getting too high and they couldnt spray the higher floors from the streets, the water would "particalise" and disburse, so they came up with a device to make the water less turbulant, and it would extend the flow of water distance wise for a few reasons, like you could displace more liters/per minute out of the nozle and it wouldnt disburse as early.

These 2 inventions have the same internal, its just mesh screens, it can make the water (and air) more "streamlined" and flow better (more smoother and consistant) and faster, so at that point in our air plumbing it doesnt matter that the sides are ribbed, the air is near perfectly "good flowing(?.. Insert better word)".. And the air going past the maf wont spike or have a lack of air at any point in time.
Since ive found out that theory im dead set on putting it back in my airbox, (since the scale that the turbulance isnt only reduced 30 or 40 percent, its something like 800%)

So, embrace your mesh, i could see inconsistant spikes and low points of my engine load/maf gauge, it should be at 100% at full throttle, and especially in 1st gear, it would drop 6 or 8 percent for a 4th of a sec a few times throughout the rev range, which is literatly 6-8% horsepower down, potentially 20hp drops a few times in a revrange, non existant since i re -installed

 

Welcome to 2002...

 

 

wow ... thanks for telling us something that EVERYBODY KNOWS BACK IN 2002 ! WOOOOO!

It's called AIR STRAIGHTENER FOR OBVIOUS REASONS ?

Next thing I know, some random dumbass gonna come in and tell us "S-DAIS explain!"

 

A screen reduces instabilities in the flow direction.

A honeycomb reduces instabilities in the directions transverse to flow.

Both are features of nearly every wind tunnel for the past 90 years.

 

Mmm fluid dynamics (for my fellow engineers).

 

well at least the op is THINKING. People are not born knowing this stuff and some dont bother researching their idea beforehand.--Wait I think I just mentioned myself!

 

MAFs with screens were being made waaaaaay before then

 

And all this time I thought it was just there to keep the skeeters out. Like the screen door on the porch, ya know?

Lmao

 

Lol you're right. However this forum wasn't online back then...

On a serious note, i'm glad to see somebody trying to help but this kind of help is like axing a baby after he's born vs an abortion.

 

If he can unlock that extra 200 hp mazda hide from us inside the renesis then yea ... he is a big help

dont need him to tell us what is 1 + 1 ... is it 11?

 

1+1= Window

Just sayen......

 

If you guys think this is funny then you should see what he writes on the oz forum.

 

show us!!!!!!!

 

Hey man the mathmatical proof for that is 32 pages long, so sometimes people do need the help.

 

err .. I didn't know about that ...

but I "don't think" I need 32 god-forbidden pages to tell me how 1+1 = ? works ... I can understand that with just my fingers.

 

I'm sure you can use your imagination, he has the same user name.