Anyone know what happened to these custom inlet manifolds?

I've seen a few of these pics before but does anyone know what happened to these custom manifolds, was there ever any results posted?



First is this one which most of us have seen:























And then there's this interesting looking one which I've only just seen:





















Not claiming to be an expert on the subject but I have done a bit of reaserch into inlet manifold design - the first one isn't bad, short runners and large plenum which from what I've read is ideal for our engines, it would benefit from some velocity stacks to smooth out air flow into the runners but apart from that looks like it would be an improvement over the standard one and relatively easy to make.



The 2nd design however is probably not ideal, no plenum and very long runners, but as I said I'm no expert so could be wrong. Interesting design though.



Does anyone know if anything ever came of them, suppose they're either scrapped or sat collecting dust in somebody's shed now?

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