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tannerc91gt

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alright, so ive ordered parts to put on the car next week and i picked up a TFS track heat intake today. Been putting together another summit racing order for gaskets and a few things and hit a delima.

The ports on the lower intake are obviously larger than the ports on the stock E7s, therefore air will hit that exposed edge of the heads. my question is, do i go with the felpro 1250 gaskets that match the LOWER INTAKE ports but leave that extra edge bare or do i get stock lower/head gaskets that will cover the exposed edge?


i also ask this because im running a wet nitrous kit. Im worried that those edges will allow fuel to puddle in the intake, and well we all know how that ends up. should i switch to a dry kit to avoid that all together? or will i be alright? I dont want fuel to ruin the gaskets either.

sorry if these questions are stupid but this is my first build of my own and i figure ill have plenty along the way
 

capri debris

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There's really no reason to have a bigger intake on than the heads can handle. They call it "tuned port" injection because the tuning of the intake ports is important because the air speed through the ports is critical. With a bigger intake than the heads can flow, it will cause the air velocity of each port to be slower... not good. I suggest you put the stock intake back on until you have heads that can support the TF intake.
 

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the track heat will kill any low end you have on a stock setup. its power will come on later and by that time your heads are going to be struggling breathe...
 

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I agree, put the intake aside for the time being. With e7's, your cam and intake are perfectly matched. I put a gt40 tubular w/65 tb on a stock shortblock back in the day and it hurt OVERALL performance. When I replaced the heads with gt40's, everything woke up quite a bit
 

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I agree that your gonna loose low end with that intake on the motor, but you will never notice it on the spray, and alsoi wouldnt go switching to a dry kit, i dont think you are gonna have a fuel problem. Just use whatever gaskets are for the intake and you will be fine. It wont be ideal, but sometimes you just gotta work with what you have
 

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90lxcoupe said:
I agree that your gonna loose low end with that intake on the motor, but you will never notice it on the spray, and alsoi wouldnt go switching to a dry kit, i dont think you are gonna have a fuel problem. Just use whatever gaskets are for the intake and you will be fine. It wont be ideal, but sometimes you just gotta work with what you have
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i figured a slight decrease in low end would be made up with gears and spray. maybe im wrong, but i know there are plenty of people running stock heads with an intake, as the stock intake flows so terribly.
 

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If you hate it you can always put the stock intake back on...
 
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