Edelbrock Performer 5.0 Intake Question?

[91StangLX]

Got a chance to pick up one of these for a good price. Has anyone got any experience with this Manifold. I am presently running a Professional Products Typhoon intake. How would the Performer compare to the Typhoon intake. Pros and Cons....

 

[90mustangGT]

I have the Performer. The Typhoon is a copy of the Edelbrock. I think there would be only good things considereing your getting the real thing opposed to the knock off.

 

[cardudeusa]

I would go with the Edelbrock. Then sell the fake on ebay.

 

[DMAN302]

Same intake..save your money and get the typhoon ported and custom painted..flow is nearly as good as the RPM and better than the performer, I have the polished typhoon upper and lower, and had the performer RPM in its place prior to that...if you want to talk quality issues you should know I had to remove my Edelbrock because holes were stripped out 10ft torque applied was too much..hhmmm...typhoon didn't strip out and looks FANTASTIC. And don't throw the china thing out there cause if you look at GM Ford and Chrysler..they farm out more work to china than anyother automaker.

 

[cardudeusa]

All of your intake holes stripped out at 10ft lbs? Were the bolts messed up when you threaded them in? I just put performer heads on my car and they were top notch quality.

 

[DMAN302]

Only 3 stripped out but it goes to show you that Edelbrock has bad batches like everyone else...trust me Professional products did not knock off this line without Edlebrock permission...also judging by detail work on the product its very likely edelbrock provided the tooling package for the "knock off" product. I have 10 years in sales for the mold and die market and I can tell you quite often this will be the case where simular products are made simular but not exact by different companies with permission to do so baised on a percentage profit basis. Edelbrock makes top notch products for the most part yes..but mine did strip out, and my BBK TB did have a seal leak at the lower butterfly pivot causing vac problems with my idle.

 

[cardudeusa]

Only 3 stripped out but it goes to show you that Edelbrock has bad batches like everyone else...trust me Professional products did not knock off this line without Edlebrock permission...also judging by detail work on the product its very likely edelbrock provided the tooling package for the "knock off" product. I have 10 years in sales for the mold and die market and I can tell you quite often this will be the case where simular products are made simular but not exact by different companies with permission to do so baised on a percentage profit basis. Edelbrock makes top notch products for the most part yes..but mine did strip out, and my BBK TB did have a seal leak at the lower butterfly pivot causing vac problems with my idle.

I have heard a lot of people say the castings were really crappy on the knock off. I also have a Profesional Products throttlebody, it has stuck open on me twice, thats another reason I will not buy their stuff. Plus I can get a good discount on the Edelbrock parts at my work.

 

[bmo37]

I have heard a lot of people say the castings were really crappy on the knock off. I also have a Profesional Products throttlebody, it has stuck open on me twice, thats another reason I will not buy their stuff. Plus I can get a good discount on the Edelbrock parts at my work.

can't judge an intake by the quality of a throttle body.

and to the question I'd keep the typhoon its the same as the the edelbrock rpm. I'm for edelbrock quality but I even stripped a valve cover thread and had to drill and heli coil it again.

 

[91StangLX]

Same intake..save your money and get the typhoon ported and custom painted..flow is nearly as good as the RPM and better than the performer, I have the polished typhoon upper and lower, and had the performer RPM in its place prior to that...if you want to talk quality issues you should know I had to remove my Edelbrock because holes were stripped out 10ft torque applied was too much..hhmmm...typhoon didn't strip out and looks FANTASTIC. And don't throw the china thing out there cause if you look at GM Ford and Chrysler..they farm out more work to china than anyother automaker.

I have the intake ported and polished and do not get me wrong I really like the Typhoon. The problem I have is the RPM range of the intake is to high for my gears and convertor. I need to bring my power band back down into the 2500 range. My cam is done at about 5800 RPM and the Typhoon dies out at 6500 where the Performer would top out at 5500...

 

[millhouse]

Only 3 stripped out but it goes to show you that Edelbrock has bad batches like everyone else...trust me Professional products did not knock off this line without Edlebrock permission...also judging by detail work on the product its very likely edelbrock provided the tooling package for the "knock off" product. I have 10 years in sales for the mold and die market and I can tell you quite often this will be the case where simular products are made simular but not exact by different companies with permission to do so baised on a percentage profit basis. Edelbrock makes top notch products for the most part yes..but mine did strip out, and my BBK TB did have a seal leak at the lower butterfly pivot causing vac problems with my idle.

I wouldnt assume they got any permission from edlebrock. It happens quite often that companies will steal others designs. Just look at upr products.

I would say that it's quite unlikely that edlebrock gave their tooling. Once the propriatory info leaves there hands...anything can happen. The tooling is everything...which is why when you are using a cad system, you DO NOT LINK the final product to the tooling. When you send out the final product, you DO NOT SEND OUT THE TOOLING.

A qick laser scan of the intake is all a company needs to reproduce the tooling...although it will not be exact. The longer the scan, the more it costs...so there will typically be aeras which will not match the original.

I'm not trying to start a war, I'm just stating my personal experience.

Anyways, I love my performer.

 

[BYRDPE]

Performer upper......

I have the intake ported and polished and do not get me wrong I really like the Typhoon. The problem I have is the RPM range of the intake is to high for my gears and convertor. I need to bring my power band back down into the 2500 range. My cam is done at about 5800 RPM and the Typhoon dies out at 6500 where the Performer would top out at 5500...

Just get yourself a Performer upper and bolt it to the Typhoon lower.

 

[millhouse]

I just thought that I'd say that I bought my performer used (and partially polished) out of one of the classified sections on a mustang sight (cant remember which one).

$230 and I was done with it.

 

[gold73fastback]

aluminum is much more ductile than nodular cast iron. if you guys are stripping threads I'd say it's your own fault for overtighening.

 

[bmo37]

funny how did i strip a heli coil, thought that was stainless steel and is stronger than aluminum, remeber all edelbrock heads have heli coils not a cheasy aluminum drill and tap.

 

[04sleeper]

I wouldnt assume they got any permission from edlebrock. It happens quite often that companies will steal others designs. Just look at upr products. They copy everybody! Even took a bunch of my ideas and are making money off them. Even using a machine shop and welder that I told them about!

Anyway, the Typhoon intake was origionally made by MAC. MAC copied Edelbrock and was getting heat from them so MAC sold the molds and everything to Professional Products. Anything from MAC is !