crosswind intake?
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68rustang
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Since the Offy is universally dissed, I'd say you're gaining power. However, the Professional Products intakes are getting their share of dissing too.
I put a Pro Products dual plane on my kids' '65, because for a polished intake it was about $100 cheaper than a polished Performer. Obviously I was going for bling as much as performance. I think the price gap has narrowed, and if I were doing it again I think I would go the few dollars more and get the real deal -- an Edelbrock Air Gap, or a Weiand Stealth.
I definitely would not get one of those Pro Products "real chrome" units. Something tells me those aren't going to hold up over the long haul.
I've always had this reservation about any of these Air Gap intakes for street use, and that is that they are bound to take awhile to warm up the carb in cold weather. If you get right on the freeway and can cruise to normal operating temperatures, it won't be a prob, but if you have to head into stop and go first thing in the morning, I think it will definitely be a problem.
I put a Pro Products dual plane on my kids' '65, because for a polished intake it was about $100 cheaper than a polished Performer. Obviously I was going for bling as much as performance. I think the price gap has narrowed, and if I were doing it again I think I would go the few dollars more and get the real deal -- an Edelbrock Air Gap, or a Weiand Stealth.
I definitely would not get one of those Pro Products "real chrome" units. Something tells me those aren't going to hold up over the long haul.
I've always had this reservation about any of these Air Gap intakes for street use, and that is that they are bound to take awhile to warm up the carb in cold weather. If you get right on the freeway and can cruise to normal operating temperatures, it won't be a prob, but if you have to head into stop and go first thing in the morning, I think it will definitely be a problem.
Real deal (Edelbrock) and rip off (Professional Products):kreacher5.0 said:
1. Edelbrock: Made in USA, so foundry workers, machinists, and front office personnel put their earnings and tax money back into our economy.
PP: Made in China, so workers' wages stay in China. U.S. consumer money to China supports corrupt regime that, in turn, supports U.S. enemies (North Korea, Iran, etc.). Exploits workers and encourages increasingly stratified Chinese caste system. Contributes to $800,000,000,000 (and growing) annual U.S.-China trade deficit.
2. Edelbrock: Invested in the R & D that created the product; Edelbrock has moral claim to profit from its own ideas; dollars siphoned off by copycat products leaves Edelbrock with fewer dollars for future R & D.
PP: R & D consists of how best to copy others' products, i.e., to make it easier to copy more.
3. Edelbrock: better quality control; core-shifted castings rejected and not shipped; the "little things" are all seen to.
PP: Core-shifted castings shipped; consumer must check and gasket match, or reject castings and try to get money back from retailer. The "little things" are ignored
(Admittedly this last category is the regurgitation of the Edelbrock, and the whole "made in U.S.A." movement's, company line. I don't have first hand data. I didn't even check for gasket match with the PP intake I put on my kids' '65. I have no complaints about it, either.)
SoCalCruising
Founding Member
The casting and machining quality of the Stealth is far better than the E-brock - I had both for my 331 build and trashed the E-brock. I will say, however, that the E-brock came with more hardware (plugs, bracktes, etc.) than the Stealth and is, therefore, a more complete product.
Unless the product is something not offered by American companies, I try to buy American. PP stuff is just a cheap rip-off of something Edelbrock spent time and money to develop.
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