airbox
Sign in to savethumb|right|Inside the airbox of an Alfa Romeo Montreal thumb|Motorcycle airbox on a V-2 engine. An airbox is an empty chamber on the inlet of most combustion engines. It collects air from outside and feeds it to the intake hoses of each cylinder.
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thumb|right|Inside the airbox of an Alfa Romeo Montreal thumb|Motorcycle airbox on a V-2 engine. An airbox is an empty chamber on the inlet of most combustion engines. It collects air from outside and feeds it to the intake hoses of each cylinder.
Older engines drew air directly from the surroundings into each individual carburetor. Modern engines instead draw air into an airbox, which is connected by individual hoses to each carburetor or directly to the intake ports in fuel-injected engines, thus avoiding an extra intake manifold.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “airbox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.