running a flipped upper intake

Dan95-5.0 · Dec 14, 2005

for an upcoming "project", i was thinking about flipping my upper intake manifold. its a professional products typhoon. i know its going to look a little weired because my vac lines will be showing in the front plenum.

i'm going to have to extend some wires for the throttle body sensors. but what about the throttle cables? theres going to be alot of excess throttle cable in the engine bay.

has anybody done this?

peace

1994Vib.RedGT · Dec 14, 2005

what? I dont understand.

Dan95-5.0 · Dec 14, 2005

i want it took like dis....

heres a better lookin pic

Zero Signal · Dec 14, 2005

Soooo, do you need to flip the lower too? If everything that matters lines up ok, then why not

Vac lines are easy to deal with though. I could see the TB linkage being a pain.

final5-0 · Dec 14, 2005

I saw a thread where somebody did this not too long ago.

Sorry but I don't remember who did it.

Grady

BlueOvalStangGT · Dec 14, 2005

I plan on doing that one day too, much easier for running turbo piping.I ve heard of people flipping the T/B upside down too to keep cables on the other side still. And to the person who replied, no you dont flip the lower as well. The black 95 in moneypit's thread(went 9's at 152) has a flipped intake as well. I say go for it.

Dan95-5.0 · Dec 14, 2005

final5-0 said:
I saw a thread where somebody did this not too long ago.

Sorry but I don't remember who did it.

Grady

i remember seeing that. it was a turbo sn95 mustang with a blue upper intake.

i tried looking for it again but......

our search function sucks!!!!!

i think i'm going to have to do the fox throttle body swap all over again like replace the throttle cable and throttle bracket over to one from a older non-ho 5.0 like those mavericks where they came with the intake already flipped.

Dan95-5.0 · Dec 14, 2005

BlueOvalStangGT said:
I plan on doing that one day too, much easier for running turbo piping.I ve heard of people flipping the T/B upside down too to keep cables on the other side still. And to the person who replied, no you dont flip the lower as well. The black 95 in moneypit's thread(went 9's at 152) has a flipped intake as well. I say go for it.

can you post a link if you please?

final5-0 · Dec 14, 2005

Dan95-5.0 said:
i remember seeing that. it was a turbo sn95 mustang with a blue upper intake.

i tried looking for it again but......

our search function sucks!!!!!

i think i'm going to have to do the fox throttle body swap all over again like replace the throttle cable and throttle bracket over to one from a older non-ho 5.0 like those mavericks where they came with the intake already flipped.

It may have been over on the Corral!

Did you look over there?

Grady

95snoozer · Dec 15, 2005

the intake you can flip is the victor efi intake, not an efi

the center bolt does not line up, i do not believe

yo can also bolt a spyder intake any direction you like.

95stangGT · Dec 15, 2005

http://www.turbomustangs.com/smf/index.php?topic=53440.0

alittle more info

BlackVert · Dec 15, 2005

BlueOvalStangGT said:
I plan on doing that one day too, much easier for running turbo piping.I ve heard of people flipping the T/B upside down too to keep cables on the other side still. And to the person who replied, no you dont flip the lower as well. The black 95 in moneypit's thread(went 9's at 152) has a flipped intake as well. I say go for it.

just curious, how does it make routing the piping easier?

Killercanary · Dec 15, 2005

BlackVert said:
just curious, how does it make routing the piping easier?

Because if the turbo is mounted on the pass side, you would only have its outlet going to the intercooler and then it would come out the driver's side of it and up into the intake, rather than snaking back through the inner fender where the discharge tube was.

1105 · Dec 15, 2005

That can be easily solved by getting an IC that has the inlet/outlet on the same side though. Yes they are harder to find, but they are out there.

blk9450 · Dec 15, 2005

Dan95-5.0 said:
i remember seeing that. it was a turbo sn95 mustang with a blue upper intake.

i tried looking for it again but......

our search function sucks!!!!!

i think i'm going to have to do the fox throttle body swap all over again like replace the throttle cable and throttle bracket over to one from a older non-ho 5.0 like those mavericks where they came with the intake already flipped.

dat is me

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2198841

http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=598728

blk9450 · Dec 15, 2005

1105 said:
That can be easily solved by getting an IC that has the inlet/outlet on the same side though. Yes they are harder to find, but they are out there.

less efficient. thats why they are hard to find, they suck

Dan95-5.0 · Dec 15, 2005

i just got a email reply from the person who owns the cobra from that second pic i posted.

heres what he told me:

Flipping the intake is pretty straight forward. What I had to do to make things were are as follows:

1. Modify wiring for TPS sensor to reach the new position.
2. Had a buddy make a customer set of intercooler pipes.
3. Purchase a small billet bracket for $25 from X2C motorsports for the throttle linkage mount.
4. Purchase a 87-93 throttle cable.

I actually have a Hogan's sheetmetal upper now with the TFS-R lower.

i would rather run a flipped upper so i can run a intercooler with inlets and outlets on opposite ends instead of one side. this way i dont have to really worry about placing pipes and it would look a little cleaner.

also, it would be alot cheaper to find a intercooler with inlets/outlets on opposite sides on ebay LOL

i'm not 100% sure but i believe the edelbrocks would alow me to flip it because the lowers bolt pattern looks the same both ways. i'll try it when i get a chance today.

BlueOvalStangGT · Dec 15, 2005

blk9450 said:
less efficient. thats why they are hard to find, they suck

Dude props for your skill!!! As soon as I buy my first house I plan on doing the same thing!!! Turbo kits, wakeboard towers, upholstery, body work, weld,....you name it... I wanna learn. Plus.....im a better wakeboarder then you.

blk9450 · Dec 16, 2005

BlueOvalStangGT said:
Plus.....im a better wakeboarder then you.

thanks for the compliments, i have some more stuff that i have done i havent put on the site yet,
yea you told me in the pic thread that you can kick my ass wakeboarding, but never responded to my question

blk9450 said:
yea prob, i just started last year and dont have many hours in. i can only stick w2w 3's and rally and some mean fashon airs as of now, we have a much shorter season than you in fl, im in nj. wakeskate i can w2w, pop-shuvits, pop 180's and surface 720 a couple times.
whats your trick list like

i actually only have about 2 months in total...

BlueOvalStangGT · Dec 16, 2005

Damn didnt see that....it sucks for me because I mostly only been able to ride behind flats boats/my whaler but my 2 freinds just got a moomba and a nautique so I have been learning ALOT. Although now that im in college I dont ride period. As of 4 months ago, I could do back rolls, f/s or b/s 3's, and like your average 180 grab stuff. Ive landed a few front rolls but my skill really shines on rails(since that pretty much all I could do behind the flats boat). This Xmas break I want to get in the water alot more.

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