Quick question about intake porting
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I know there is no real performance gain from porting an intake on a stock top end motor, but do you guys think it will actually hurt performance?
The reason I ask is I want to get my intake powder coated, and was thinking about having AI or LE port it while it was off. Reason behind this being I'm eventually going to run an AI or LE heads/cam setup on my car, so I know I'm going to want a ported intake at that point, so doing it now would save me a couple hundred bucks down the road.
I've seen and heard claims that it isn't "worth it" on a stock motor and that it wouldn't give you any gains, but I didn't know if it would actually hurt performance on a stock top end?
Kind of a stupid question, I know, but just wondering because I'm not positive.
What are your guy's thoughts?
The reason I ask is I want to get my intake powder coated, and was thinking about having AI or LE port it while it was off. Reason behind this being I'm eventually going to run an AI or LE heads/cam setup on my car, so I know I'm going to want a ported intake at that point, so doing it now would save me a couple hundred bucks down the road.
I've seen and heard claims that it isn't "worth it" on a stock motor and that it wouldn't give you any gains, but I didn't know if it would actually hurt performance on a stock top end?
Kind of a stupid question, I know, but just wondering because I'm not positive.
What are your guy's thoughts?
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I'll probably just end calling AI or LE here next week.
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The stock intake is damn good. There's an article floating around the net that compares a ported intake versus a stock one on a modded setup and it shows little improvement. It's unlikely to hurt though.
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Oh I read him wrong. I thought he was telling him to do that! That was the question, WHY, not what.