Best intake manifold

randomjoker · Feb 16, 2004

Best intake manifold to go along with MAC CAI. (car would be n/a)

Venom351R · Feb 16, 2004

Check the questions and fact sheet sticky at the top of this page. That will give you all the flow #s on the intakes. Having that MAC CIA wont really matter regardelss of what intake you go w/ b/c they dont add any power to begin with.

SuperDust22 · Feb 16, 2004

I wound say the Edelbrock if your looking at quality and over all performance. I like the Cobra intake because it can be had cheap.

stang_gt_1994 · Feb 16, 2004

I got the Performer and I love it.

Killercanary · Feb 16, 2004

What sort of NA setup are you looking to do? Mainly what rpm range are you planning to run in? This will dictate what intake you run.

OrangeMustangGt · Feb 16, 2004

how are trick flows? the low rpm one, i believe the heat...how are they>?

GTJake · Feb 16, 2004

You're thinking of the Street Heat. It's comparable to the Performer, but I have no personal experience with it. I like my Performer though!

Jake

1105 · Feb 16, 2004

Another vote for the performer here too.

unclejackrock · Feb 16, 2004

Eddy BABY!!!!!

red94fiveo · Feb 16, 2004

I'll stick in a vote for my GT40. Its ported, but even before that it gave me a good improvement in power with few other mods. It seems to keep a pretty decent power band as well.

I don't think you can go wrong with the Eddy, either. Track times and dyno numbers have proven that one.

randomjoker · Feb 16, 2004

Prolly want my car idling around the 1000-1500 range.

Well when I do get my car the first thing I will be doing is repairs. Then I will be getting CAI, 2chamber flows (pro dumps), o/r h-pipe, 3.73's, performance chip, headers, cam, and then we will go from there...

btw it will be my daily driver

67stang390 · Feb 16, 2004

Hey randomjoker, you building a Honda or a Mustang? We only have one cam in our car. My vote for the intake would be a Trick Flow Street Heat. I don't think an intake manifold controls where your car idles at; not nearly as much as your cam does. A cold air intake isn't really worth any power, but if you're going to get one try eBay. For $30 you can get the same thing as the Mac or BBK ones. A performance chip also won't do anything for you with so few mods, wait until you do some serious work to the car.

jwalker · Feb 16, 2004

I like my street heat intake!!!!!!

randomjoker · Feb 16, 2004

67stang390 said:
Hey randomjoker, you building a Honda or a Mustang? We only have one cam in our car. My vote for the intake would be a Trick Flow Street Heat. I don't think an intake manifold controls where your car idles at; not nearly as much as your cam does. A cold air intake isn't really worth any power, but if you're going to get one try eBay. For $30 you can get the same thing as the Mac or BBK ones. A performance chip also won't do anything for you with so few mods, wait until you do some serious work to the car.

Your right it doesn't control where the car idles at, but it does matter what your car is idling at when buying the correct intake manifold.

So scratch the performance chip till later..

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Also if you just skipped the earlier post because you already read them or whatever, I edited a previous post to tell you that the pony is a daily driver.

jetuomi · Feb 16, 2004

if you're going new cam, match the cam to the intake and the rpm you want to run @ (just like killer said above!)

raginbul469 · Feb 17, 2004

what about the vortech/saleen intake?!?!

Killercanary · Feb 17, 2004

OK, if the car is stock and you are not planning to upgrade the internals to handle 6500+rpm shifts, then get the edelbrock performer. Its is tried and true and you WILL see a gain with it on a stock headed, stock cammed car. This is only MY opinion.... but from what I've seen in terms of gains I don't care much for the cobra intake, it can make decent power but for a gain in itself the performer seems to beat it. I can't comment on the TF stuff because to the best of y knowledge no one has put it on a stock car and reported the results as to what gains on the track or dyno they saw with it. Many run it on H/C/I cars but few with the stock H/C. If it was my car there is no doubt I'd put the edelbrock performer on there. If when you get out of school you can afford to go crazy with a hgih rpm screamer, all you have to do is swap out the upper intake to an rpm or sell the e-brock and get somehting along the lines of the holley, or the TF track heat.

JFYI- I ran 13.83 at 98.55mph in my 'vert with the following:
edelbrock performer intake
65mm t-body
shorty headers
offroad x
flowmaster mufflers in the stock cat back
3.73's
nitto DR's
ASP pulleys
14* timing

The car weighed around 3750lbs then with me.

I used to think the saleen/vortech was a good one, but I have never seen any reults to back it up. they are normally a fortune even when used. For the money there are much better alternatives. It shares the same lower principle as the holley.... the 302 truck lower.

tmoss · Feb 17, 2004

Killercanary said:
This is only MY opinion.... but from what I've seen in terms of gains I don't care much for the cobra intake, it can make decent power but for a gain in itself the performer seems to beat it.

Don't underestimate the Cobra. It's been documented to make 280-290 RWHP right out of the box with the right combination of cam and heads. On a stock headed/cammed motor, I wouldn't expct more than a couple HP average difference (edit: between the Cobra and Performer) and that could swing either way depending on the individual casting.

By the way (don't respond as this is not a high jack), for you guys who have been asking about the flow of my lower intake - Greg at XSR Cylinder Heads in South Carolina flowed one of my lowers on a SF-600 @ 28" without a clay inlet and got 195 cfm average flow. We are getting a stock lower and maybe a stock upper for him to test. Here is Greg's report:

"I flowed it today. Flowed each runner @28"s, with no clay. Add clay to radius the air, and usually raises the #'s 10-15cfm.

Here are the flow #'s, by the runner #.........sorry no stocker yet

1 186 5 183
2 201 6 200
3 198 7 191
4 200 8 198

Later, Greg(XSR)"

Killercanary · Feb 17, 2004

Tom, I never knock on the cobra as it is decent, and can be made even better with some massaging, but on stock headed cars I have seen where the cobra has not made any improvement in 1/4 times but I have never seen that with the eddy. I know this isn't the best way to judge it, but this does seem to occur frequently enough for me to notice.

Those are decent flow numbers, you can see how the distibutor location caused dog legged runners in #1 and 5 and hence the variance in flow of those compared to the other ports. #7 and #8 are pretty well matched to the others which is something you don't always see.

OrangeMustangGt · Feb 17, 2004

whell im planning a trick flow intake soon on my complete stock motor, and i will tell ya what happins, but if it compares to an eddie, i guess it will not be that bad, anyone run a trick flow street on a stock motor?

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