Ok, But the intake would be cheaper to make and lighter/better than current manifolds. When edelbrock makes new intake manifolds, they have to design them, how has this cost changed?
Plastic intakes are a new(er) trend. They didn't really appear until 1992 on Ford's and not until very recently on a lot of other cars.
Ford used AL on the 5.0 because it was the cheapest means to mass produce a complex intake. That's about the only reason. Sacrifice some engineering potential for the almightly buck.
If a pushrod engine were designed today by ford, it might have a composite intake. The LS6 does doesn't it?
Today's technology allows such things to be done, but 20 years ago, sand-cast aluminum intakes were the technology of the day
If an aftermarket supplier wants to put the R&D into a composite "long-runner" style intake, then they might have something. But they will also need to price it high to offset the initial capital expenditure to research and design a working composite 5.0 long-runner intake.
Not the fake one-explorer thats heavy as ****. Even my old original 93 cobra was heavy!
Ok, But the intake would be cheaper to make and lighter/better than current manifolds. When edelbrock makes new intake manifolds, they have to design them, how has this cost changed?
Plastic intakes are a new(er) trend. They didn't really appear until 1992 on Ford's and not until very recently on a lot of other cars.
Ford used AL on the 5.0 because it was the cheapest means to mass produce a complex intake. That's about the only reason. Sacrifice some engineering potential for the almightly buck.
If a pushrod engine were designed today by ford, it might have a composite intake. The LS6 does doesn't it?
Today's technology allows such things to be done, but 20 years ago, sand-cast aluminum intakes were the technology of the day
If an aftermarket supplier wants to put the R&D into a composite "long-runner" style intake, then they might have something. But they will also need to price it high to offset the initial capital expenditure to research and design a working composite 5.0 long-runner intake.
just run nitrous and you will never have to worry about your intake being hot. My intake is Ice cold after a blast down the track on the giggle gas.
It wouldn't warp if made properly, as far as removing heat, buy a better radiator if you need to, that's what it's for. The intake manifold doesn't compare to the cooling capacity of the radiator.
FAST has the technology to produce composite intakes. They already make a LSX intake and I know they have shown a aftermarket 3V modular intake at SEMA I think. It would be nice if they would step up and design a composite 5.0 intake using newer style long runner intake designs.
Maybe they aren't set up to do composites?
They've been doing AL for a long time, maybe they don't see the justification to purchasing the equipment to do composites when they do perfectly fine with AL castings?
The Ford FE is a perfect example of the intake is designed into the integrity of the block and I would imagine that all of the engines of that era have some sort of design where the intake manifold helped the motor from splitting.
The FE heads are smaller thus integrating the intake to the heads. The pushrods actually go throught the intake and not the heads. Another dead giveaway is that the bolts from the intake go 90 degrees to the head to intake surface and not vertically like most other V8s...
http://maddogtrucks.com/wp-content/images/motor/edel-2.jpg
Granted the FE is a special case but a lot of people on fordfe.com opt not to go for an aluminium intake and port the cast because of it's strengths and expansion rate.
Kevin
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?