tf street or track heat?

miller92063 · Feb 20, 2006

What do you guys think would be the better intake for my set-up?

thanks.

Grn92LX · Feb 20, 2006

Street heat will be better for your stock engine. Before you buy anything, think about your future plans and where you want the car to be. No sense buying a tiny intake now when you have big plans down the road.

FORCED2DV8 · Feb 20, 2006

Get an idea of how much power you want to make and decide from there. Unless you have the money to swap parts as you upgrade. If your going to get aftermarket heads/cam ect. then go with the larger intake.

miller92063 · Feb 20, 2006

PLANS ARE TURBO PROBLY NEXT WINTER OR FOR SURE THE WINTER AFTER NEXT.

final5-0 · Feb 20, 2006

I can't agree more with the others about long term plans saving you money and heartache.

Grady

Yobi1Kanobi · Feb 20, 2006

Killercanary · Feb 20, 2006

miller92063 said:
What do you guys think would be the better intake for my set-up?

thanks.

What's the full setup? Its impossible to answer without knowing this. Also, as the guys mentioned, what is the "future" combo for the car?

drakesdad · Feb 20, 2006

I've got the Track heat set up and love it. I love the way it runs and I still need another prof. tune.....my 2 cents

miller92063 · Feb 20, 2006

check my garage for my setup it has just about everything.

turbo by winter 2007
for sure!!!

Pokageek · Feb 20, 2006

So if you have done H/C/I, does it really make a difference with the track heat in terms of letting the car rev out a lot higher? Quarter Mile difference anyone?

Black95GTS · Feb 20, 2006

Well coming from a street heat owner, I'll give my two cents.

The intake upper says specifically idle to 5500... and let me tell you, they aren't kidding about that 5500. This is fine for me as my car usually isn't revved past 4500 on the street.

If and when I go for my cam and heads, I will probably consider switching to a track heat upper. I'll want to build power to 6500, where the street heat will be hard pressed to flow enough cfm. At this point the car will be more of a track car then a street one.

I guess it depends on what you want to do with the car.

Adam

drakesdad · Feb 20, 2006

I will be totally honest, I can't remember exactly "why" I picked the Track heat over the street heat (Maybe the HP rating) and I've never ran it but maybe I'll look into it more, I know it pulls hard in the higher rpms......I thought I saw someone say the intake is bigger, maybe that's why I see some people kept their bar and mine won't fit.......unless they bought the custom one.......OH WELL

final5-0 · Feb 20, 2006

drakesdad said:
I will be totally honest, I can't remember exactly "why" I picked the Track heat over the street heat (Maybe the HP rating) and I've never ran it but maybe I'll look into it more, I know it pulls hard in the higher rpms......I thought I saw someone say the intake is bigger, maybe that's why I see some people kept their bar and mine won't fit.......unless they bought the custom one.......OH WELL

I'd like to throw in my two pennies worth here please

If one is gonna go for 300 or better with a typical stock block NA combo

I think the middle of the line intake (Track Heat TFS or RPM Edel) is not necessarily a bad choice.

High end of the rpm band first

Adam basically said it all above.
The street intakes can sign off a bit early.

Now for the low end of the rpm band

It is true, the middle intakes can kill some low end.
however
These days, more and more peeps have seen the light about LT's
so
One can make up all or a good bit of the difference using LT's.

It has seemed to work kinda like that for me

Grady

drakesdad · Feb 21, 2006

Grady, I looked int he summit book last night and compared the two.....I think chose the Track heat because it was listed as 360 hp and the street heat was 350......torque was higher on street heat though......So I did the "Tim the tool man Taylor" and went for the larger HP.....that and $1 will by me a Coke...LOL I'm still content with it even though I am trying to finish the supporting mods.....

drakesdad · Feb 21, 2006

Oh I also forgot to say that when looking up the set ups last night I saw very small print that states peak HP using a 306 cubic inch flat top engine.........What's up with that....LOL So just how much is this kit pushing out.....

Grn92LX · Feb 21, 2006

Black95GTS said:
Well coming from a street heat owner, I'll give my two cents.

The intake upper says specifically idle to 5500... and let me tell you, they aren't kidding about that 5500. This is fine for me as my car usually isn't revved past 4500 on the street.

Yeah I agree. I had a street heat on my 302 and it killed my combo upstairs. I really needed a ported rpm manifold but I did a stroker instead I'd MUCH rather have the upstairs power over un needed low end any day of the week.

flashbang756 · Feb 21, 2006

Well, with your plans, I would definately get the Track Heat.

BUT, I would also consider buying a Holley Systemax II intake. It is an almost exact replica of the Vortech intake that was designed SPECIFICALLY for boosted applications. So it's your best bet for any type of forced induction.

Pokageek · Feb 22, 2006

So how much low end does it kill?? I have too much low end right now anyway! Any examples? Also, can you use the street heat lower and just buy the track heat upper?

Yobi1Kanobi · Feb 22, 2006

I run the R intake and let me tell you it really comes alive at about 2k to 2500 and it pulls especially when i ran nitrous. But I always had plans of being stroked,blown,NO2 or all of the above. Guess it would be an overkill on your set up but what im trying to say is just make sure you look to where you are going to be later it will save you alot of money ,trust me my mistakes have gotten alot of people cheap parts

Black95GTS · Feb 22, 2006

Pokageek said:
So how much low end does it kill?? I have too much low end right now anyway! Any examples? Also, can you use the street heat lower and just buy the track heat upper?

Yes you can exchange uppers, they both use the same lower.

Adam

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