Is anyone using the typhoon intake manifold from P.P. is it good quality or does it sux. My friend wants to install one on his 90. GT but wants to know if he should just spring the extra money for the edelbrock.
typoohn intake good/bad?
- Thread starter DDSTANG94
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Same design as the edel performer RPM. If your friend has time to clean up some of the casting he can save some money by going with the P.P. intake and it will flow just as good as the edel perf. It will move the power band up... so it may or may not match what he has on the car already.
Ronman
Founding Member
i have it on my car, yeah you really need to clean it up. it is a good deal if you got the time and tools to smooth everything out and gasket match it. with my combo the power seems to come on about 2,800-3,000 and pulls atleast to 6,500 thats where i stop the madness
I'm also running one on my car and I'm very happy with it. I wonder if I really would have benefitted much from cleaning up the casting, since mine looked pretty good out of the box. Some of these are hit or miss, but I'm also running the PP elbow and 70mm throttle body with no issues whatsoever.
BlackVert
15 Year Member
the polished stuff looks nice, and the price is great, but the fitment of pro products (pp) parts with other non-pp parts is not very good.
to be specific, i have heard that the throttle body bolt holes don't line up with, for example, a tfs elbow. i hear you have to make the holes bigger to get the studs through.
and their elbow doesn't line up well with a bbk throttle body. i had a 70mm pp elbow and a 70mm bbk t/b. even though the bolt holes lined up, when i put it together and opened the throttle blade and looked at the inside edge where the throttle body and elbow bores meet, it was not even close. it was so bad that i was worried that the throttle blade would hit the edge of the elbow bore, but it didn't. so i ran with it like that
, but it was annoying.
but it sounds like if you go with all pp stuff (upper, lower, elbow, and t/b), the fitment is ok ...
to be specific, i have heard that the throttle body bolt holes don't line up with, for example, a tfs elbow. i hear you have to make the holes bigger to get the studs through.
and their elbow doesn't line up well with a bbk throttle body. i had a 70mm pp elbow and a 70mm bbk t/b. even though the bolt holes lined up, when i put it together and opened the throttle blade and looked at the inside edge where the throttle body and elbow bores meet, it was not even close. it was so bad that i was worried that the throttle blade would hit the edge of the elbow bore, but it didn't. so i ran with it like that
but it sounds like if you go with all pp stuff (upper, lower, elbow, and t/b), the fitment is ok ...
Black95GTS
Active Member
This is mis-information. The Typhoon intake is the same design as the Performer RPM intake. I believe the RPM range for that manifold was 1500-6500, making it great for the common 302 HCI.
The Performer's range is idle - 5500, which is great for a bolt on stock replacement.
The Typhoon is the reason that Edelbrock no longer makes the RPM, just the Performer and Performer RPM II.
In terms of quality, I've never had first hand experience. Reading off the boards though, it seems like a 50/50 split.
Adam
Dan95-5.0
Active Member
got this intake too. bought a used non polished version and polished it myself.
i also ported it too. the casting was pretty ****y. took no time to clean it up tho. i used a PP fox 70mm throttle body without a problem. when i put it all together, i didnt realize how bad the throttle body matched the intake so i have to port that when the car comes out of storage.
i wouldn't think twice about this intake if the price was right.
i also ported it too. the casting was pretty ****y. took no time to clean it up tho. i used a PP fox 70mm throttle body without a problem. when i put it all together, i didnt realize how bad the throttle body matched the intake so i have to port that when the car comes out of storage.
i wouldn't think twice about this intake if the price was right.
OrangeMustangGt
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69clark
Founding Member
I haven't owned one but I have read all over the net about the same thing everyone else is saying. Clean up the ports and you set to go.
slvrbullit302
New Member
I have had one since they first came out, out the box uncleaned or gasket matched it made 260rwhp and 290rwtq with the following other mods: "f" cam, ported E7's, 75mm tb, 75mm MAF, 30# inj., long tubes and pro-chamber, 1.6RR.
Now with the 331 I have it still seems to be doing ok but I am about to change out a bunch of stuff and I will be removing the intake for something a little more race orientated.
Now with the 331 I have it still seems to be doing ok but I am about to change out a bunch of stuff and I will be removing the intake for something a little more race orientated.
mustangt562
Member
Its a great budget intake if you clean it up and gasket match it. I got a lower that was already ported and whoever ported mine gasket matched it and ported it all the way through opening to opening and it is smooth like a baby bottom. I could not be happer. I have the performer upper and am in the process of getting a rpm upper so i can swap at will. but it will FORSURE need to be cleaned up/ported cause the castings are horrible!!
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gtcoupeaust
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i have tyhoon, with PP elbow and BBK 70mm TB all fitted good. Had to mod my water outlet by grinding the top down as it hit the manifold. apart from that all good.
