best intake for the money?

[88GT4u2nv]

i had cobra upper and lower in mind here at first, but is there a better intake for around the 400 dollar mark out there? will it work well with a blown application? thanks guys.

i know im learning

 

[Hickfied]

I would say a satin Typhoon for 320 shipped... And use the other 80 towards a bigger TB.

 

[Tonys96Cobra]

If your talking power for $$, its hard to beat an Explorer setup. I beleive the Typhoon wil actually outflow the Cobra, and its less money. But the Cobra looks better, IMO.

 

[deadlast]

just remember: tyhpoon is a knock off of the RPM, and i have heard of casting issues. also, its power range is 1500-6500, however that would work well with a blower. imo id get the street heat TFS intake... $404

 

[rflow50]

Another vote for TFS.

 

[slow93]

 

[Coupe5oh]

If your talking power for $$, its hard to beat an Explorer setup. I beleive the Typhoon wil actually outflow the Cobra, and its less money. But the Cobra looks better, IMO.

I agree, i bought mine for 250$, Then drilled and tapped for the act sensor, slapped it on with a 65mm tb, loved it ever since.
Not the most beautiful intake though.

 

[mob]

I wouldnt go with the typhoon, youll spend 320, and then more for a machine shop to clean up the casts. For the 300 price range id just go with a junkyard explorer or a cobra intake (both are same intake). But that intake wont hold up past the 350ish mark, if your looking to boost your car later on, and you in the 400 range, wait a paycheck or two and buy a holley or tfs intake in the 600 range.

 

[795.0pacecar]

I got my track heat for 375 shipped on ebay with a 70mm BBK egr spacer.

 

[mob]

I got my track heat for 375 shipped on ebay with a 70mm BBK egr spacer.

This is good.

 

[Blk91stang]

I wouldnt go with the typhoon, youll spend 320, and then more for a machine shop to clean up the casts. For the 300 price range id just go with a junkyard explorer or a cobra intake (both are same intake). But that intake wont hold up past the 350ish mark, if your looking to boost your car later on, and you in the 400 range, wait a paycheck or two and buy a holley or tfs intake in the 600 range.

I never paid a machine shop to clean up the casting marks on mine because there were no casting marks to begin with. Can you show me a pic of your findings?

 

[88 Fox GT]

A TFS steet heat intake is $405 on Summit Racing right now. I would say they are one of the best intakes around the $400 range.

 

[DMAN302]

I wouldnt go with the typhoon, youll spend 320, and then more for a machine shop to clean up the casts. For the 300 price range id just go with a junkyard explorer or a cobra intake (both are same intake). But that intake wont hold up past the 350ish mark, if your looking to boost your car later on, and you in the 400 range, wait a paycheck or two and buy a holley or tfs intake in the 600 range.

Funny my 'out of the box' typhoon held it's own and then some according to my dyno sheet...no casting issues here, now my RPM...that was a pc of questionable quality. Holley pc won't like much near 400 without a nice clean up.

 

[Curse]

I never paid a machine shop to clean up the casting marks on mine because there were no casting marks to begin with. Can you show me a pic of your findings?

:Word:

 

[Shakerhood]

I know this is a question about power, but for looks I have always loved the Tubular look of the GT40.

 

[mob]

Well seeing as the typhoon intake isnt listed in my mod list that would mean I have no expierence with it.

Heres some people who you can ask for pics

by slvrbullit302

I run a standard Typhoon intake on my set up and like it so far. I have had it since they first came out. I did the gasket matching and some smoothing in the upper plenum.

by foxfan88

i have heard stories of lots of people that buy the typhoon. take a grinder and clean it up a bit. they say the ports are rough and thats where to cheap labor comes in. they were very happy with the piece and felt the money was well spent.

by stang22

I had my engine builder clean up the runners a little bit, but other than that, it has worked out fine for me. No problems whatsoever...

by notchman90

bought one used for 120 shipped. cant beat that. they quality looks pretty good. couple of touch ups w/ the dremel and it looked very nice. made in china nonsense is all bs.

by viking power

the runners look pretty ****ty so I spent a couple days total polishing all the runners and the plenum to flow better and opened up one of the runners near the port where there is a pretty bad kink,

by stang2841

I dont want to lose any...


Bought the Intake today....


its not that bad at all....

the guy b4 me arready cleaned it up...

http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2003/12/efiintake/index.shtml

by FORDMUSCLE webmagazine

The Typhoon intake clearly needs to be gasket matched. It is obvious that the foundry does a minimal clean up of the ports and runners before shipping.

this guy said they looked alright

by 2002blgt

Ive got one along with their EGR plate and TB and everything was fine , only casting flash I found was on the outside around the runners ,

After searching through it again I will say no one had anything negative to say about this intake, everyone said it performed top notch, I may look into this intake again when I have some more money, but you guys cannot flame me for saying the intake dosent come very clean everyone on here whos had it says theyve cleaned it up.

 

[mob]

Funny my 'out of the box' typhoon held it's own and then some according to my dyno sheet...no casting issues here, now my RPM...that was a pc of questionable quality. Holley pc won't like much near 400 without a nice clean up.

I never said the intake wouldnt hold its own, just said from what ive heard putting that much money into it wouldnt be worth it, but everyone has their opinions.

 

[RWDtech]

ok explain the explorer intake....is it actually from a ford explorer?

 

[Curse]

Its funny how the people who do not have the Typhoon intake seem to know more about it that the people who do. Isn't that veird

 

[mob]

Its funny how the people who do not have the Typhoon intake seem to know more about it that the people who do. Isn't that veird

5 out of the 6 people I posted owned it. 7th was the guy who said it looked good, and the 8th is FORDMUSCLE webmagazine who said it came shipped with a minimal clean up job to lower costs. Very veird.

I posted their names bitch to them about it not me, never said I knew more about it then you, just posting what ive heard.