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streetability of a carb-style intake?

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Old 09-23-2006, 09:05 AM
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Is there any problem(s) with driving a carbed victor-style intake on a daily driver?
Old 09-23-2006, 09:21 AM
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Running injection or the carb?
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u shouldnt seen any problem i am currnetly building up this set up for me 396 CI motor. u can proably compare it to putting a 52mm throttle body to 58mm...
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Just drive it, who cares ha ha
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If you can keep the stock style throttle body (58mm) by using a custom elbow like www.intakeelbows.com, then you will be fine.
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like i said before u should be fine... alot of big motor LT1 guys c that the stock style LT1 manifold begin to choke the motor... all u r doing is balancing the air flow in all cylinders and forcing the heads to breath. I have heard that the power gain is tremendous over stock style LT1 intake. like Tony said run the stock fuel injection set up and u should be fine.
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Ive seen some LT1 guys run a 90mm tb with good sucess.



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