Sheet Metal Intake Manifold (rework)
10-20-2014, 03:03 PM
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nice clean up work guys! I'd love to get ahold of one of these for upcoming projects... and once its rewelded and powder coated, no one would know the difference!
10-27-2014, 09:13 AM
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It wound up being a complete waste of time/money. We put it on the fox and had issue after issue. In the end, it made less horsepower and torque than a factory LS3 and we moved on.
Lesson learned. LOL
If anyone wants it I'll sell it cheap.
Lesson learned. LOL
If anyone wants it I'll sell it cheap.
10-27-2014, 09:38 AM
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yeah I saw this cheep *** ebay intake and I had my doubts. looks nice but more for show than go. only so much polishing you can do to a turd. from what I could see the runners were to short right off the bat. im still hoping for a ITB or duel plenum setup in my future LOL but im to poor for that
10-27-2014, 09:45 AM
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I didn't see this coming...
10-27-2014, 02:54 PM
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Any thoughts as to why it was so bad ? The overall design cant be that much different to the other mega expensive shiny alloy intakes ?
I think it's more a reflection on how good the factory intakes are than anything ?
10-27-2014, 05:04 PM
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Even after smoothing out the internals, there are a few things with that design.
The flat tapered floor that the runners feed from is a bad design. raised bell mouths, even less than ideal ones, would be much better. Probably caused lots of turbulence.
The shorter runner design would not be an improvement at anything under lets say 5500 to 6000 rpm. The similar Edelbrock pro flo xt intake in a recent test against a truck intake didn't make any more hp till after approx. 5500 rpm.
The runners themselves doubtfully had any taper to them.
The best hope for this intake would be adding raised bell mouths & running it in a big cam high rpm boosted application. Or maybe someone with a mostly show engine could want it anyways.
Failure sucks, but that's the only way to really learn sometimes. Hope the hell my handmade cross ram dual plenum project works out.
Just for reference, what other kind of issues were there with this intake??
The flat tapered floor that the runners feed from is a bad design. raised bell mouths, even less than ideal ones, would be much better. Probably caused lots of turbulence.
The shorter runner design would not be an improvement at anything under lets say 5500 to 6000 rpm. The similar Edelbrock pro flo xt intake in a recent test against a truck intake didn't make any more hp till after approx. 5500 rpm.
The runners themselves doubtfully had any taper to them.
The best hope for this intake would be adding raised bell mouths & running it in a big cam high rpm boosted application. Or maybe someone with a mostly show engine could want it anyways.
Failure sucks, but that's the only way to really learn sometimes. Hope the hell my handmade cross ram dual plenum project works out.
Just for reference, what other kind of issues were there with this intake??
09-23-2021, 09:48 AM
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