Intake took a crap...

[Cory281]

Well today I was driving and was about 3 blocks from my house when I saw coolant come up under my hood and onto the windshield. I thought oh crap, followed by a lot of steam. So I pulled over and coolant was everywhere, I towed my car back to my house and started looking. I found this hose on the back of my intake manifold was hanging there. So I lifted it up and looked inside the hose and found out that the hose slips onto a nipple on the intake, well the nipple somehow snapped clean off.

So I guess I need a new intake. Where would be a good place to pick one up from? I want a bullet one because they are metal and I don't want to deal with this or worry about it with another cheap plastic one.

Thanks guys.

Oh and how hard would it be to change this thing out?

 

[Cory281]

On 50resto I just found a bullit intake for 900 bucks. Screw that one. The stocker is like 300. and I found one called a typhoon intake for 500-650 dollars. Maybe I should give the typhoon a try. Has anyone ever had any experiance with these?

Thanks.

 

[RochesterGT]

www.karkraft.com - $149 and OEM. Not the bullitt version, but it's cheap for an OEM manifold with the aluminum crossover.

 

[Cory281]

Yeah I just did a search on the typoon and everyone here hates it. So I'll stay away from that one. I don't want a OEM plastic one because it didn't break at the cross over that everyone else has. theres a coolant hose that hooks onto the intake at the back of the intake and it broke the nipple right off hte intake. Don't ask me how, I've never touched it. I guess it just got hot and brittle.

So what are all of my options here?

I could go with a stock OEM intake, what else could I do?

 

[Miles]

You've pretty much cited your options, other than a Rieckard Racing (sp?) intake. Sucks, but that's life..

 

[DropTopPony]

stock replacement for $150 from Karkraft or go with a bullitt and its more like $1500 for the kit. Or you can get a Fox Lake P51 for $1300...not many choices here.

 

[Cory281]

Yeah this sucks. I think I'll just go with the $150 karkraft intake. Not worth over a 1000 bucks for a intake manifold, do they even give you any power thats worth that price?

I'm really pissed off about this plastic thing breaking. So I'm kinda wanting to get the Typhoon intake thats made of metal so I won't have to worry about it again. What do you guys think? Typhoon or get a OEM for have the price.

Thanks guys.

 

[Pennywise2]

Yeah this sucks. I think I'll just go with the $150 karkraft intake. Not worth over a 1000 bucks for a intake manifold, do they even give you any power thats worth that price?

I'm really pissed off about this plastic thing breaking. So I'm kinda wanting to get the Typhoon intake thats made of metal so I won't have to worry about it again. What do you guys think? Typhoon or get a OEM for have the price.

Thanks guys.

Do yourself a favor and stay away from that Typhoon made in China
POS.I know of someone how put the new Typhoon intake on a supercharged
car and didn't gain one horsepower over the OEM PI intake manifold.
You should just go with a OEM intake manifold replacement from Karkraft
but, if you have the extra bucks and really want a aluminum intake than
get the Bullitt intake instead.Their are not very many intakes to choice
from for the 4.6L it sucks I agree.

 

[jeffnoel]

I say if you've got the money and you don't want plastic get the Typhoon. Just don't expect much if any perf benefits.

 

[Duke309]

If I was you, I would just get another plastic stocker. I mean look how many stockers you would have to go through to actually make the Craphoon or a bullit intake truely worth it.

 

[jeffnoel]

If I was you, I would just get another plastic stocker. I mean look how many stockers you would have to go through to actually make the Craphoon or a bullit intake truely worth it.

Agreed if all your looking at is the price of the part. But his time is worth $$ too and if another plastic intake take a dump for him then he's out another days labor not to count the cars down until it gets repaired.

 

[Cory281]

Thanks for all the replies. I've decided to go with the OEM from karkraft. I did have another question though, what would be a good way to clean my injectors? I might as well do that while I have them pulled out. Thanks again guys.

 

[Pennywise2]

Thanks for all the replies. I've decided to go with the OEM from karkraft. I did have another question though, what would be a good way to clean my injectors? I might as well do that while I have them pulled out. Thanks again guys.

You can't go wrong with a OEM PI intake replacement with the aluminum
crossover.To clean the fuel injectors the best you can clean them by hand
or the easier way and almost as effective as cleaning by hand you can
just run Chevron fuel injector cleaner or Redline fuel system cleaner by
just pouring in into your gas tank.Are your fuel injectors really dirty?

 

[Cory281]

They look ok, just have a little bit on them. I was just thinking I have them pulled out of the car so I could clean them really good instead of just running stuff threw my gas tank.

 

[Pennywise2]

They look ok, just have a little bit on them. I was just thinking I have them pulled out of the car so I could clean them really good instead of just running stuff threw my gas tank.

Then do that then Cory.

 

[BurningRubber]

Gotta transfer them to the new intake anyway, might as well take them off and have them cleaned the right way.

 

[GDawg]

See sig for replacement pics... :SNSign:

 

[94GTHO]

As long as u can figure out a way to remember where all the hoses and vacumm lines go then u should be ok. I just did an intake manifold swap on my 96 gt twice in a week cuz i didnt bolt it down to torque specs the first time cuz of bad instructions. Make sure u torque it down right or u will blow the gasket out and have to do it all over again