Intake Manifolds

[lun40119]

I have been thumbing though some other forums, and have found that there is usually a section about intake manifolds. What are some if the frequent visitors to this forum's, opinions. I am running a Team G (7531), and have no complaints. What are others running and why. Bill sells the Team G with some of his crate engines. Why????? This isn't a thread for you to suggest an intake for me.......it is merely to get real peoples opinions. Thanks

[want-a-be]

There is a few good ones I like. Some take a little modifing to get better hp.

I like the Holley strip dominator. I've had good luck with this one especially when the runners are extended into the plenum. I like the length of the runners and how high they go.

I also like the super victor that has the extended runners already in the plenum. Runners arn't quite as long as the Holley but you don't have to weld the runner extensions in.

Of those 2 I'd take the holley. These are for 23 deg heads.

For 18 deg stuff I like some of the bowtie intakes.


But hey...I'm just a want-a-be..

Thanks, Don

[Awesome Bill]

Most manifolds are just copies of the Edelbrock or GM stuff. It all starts with the Victor Series for most cases. Really, until the Sniper for the Big Block Chevy, the Super Victor, The New Weiand TG, Merlins part are pretty much a Super Victor. The Dart Manifold was the top one until Profiler hit a home run with the Sniper. It is a little better even after full porting on Darts. It has to because the runners are very straight with little turning for the air. Any manifold that does this most times will be a little quicker. But, we use the Darts piece on everything under 565's and make just as must power. Of course, we have now just tried a Sniper Jr. and that is pretty good on the smaller stuff. You do not see any bends in the Comp or Pro Stock stuff now do we! But if Dart raised the plenum, straightened out the runners, it will pretty much be the same stuff and most likely better. The small block stuff has always been pretty tight. We actually done 3 back to back runs @ the race track with a 377 SBC in 1992. Edelbrock Victor, Weiand TG, Holley Strip Dominator, Every pass was within .003. So that just shows the manifolds were close either because of design or there was a govenor somewhere else in the engine. Of course, now with engines rolling out of our shop at the size of 434 to 462" as a standard now and up to 500"s of SBC, the need for better flowing larger manifolds is needed. You have to take engine size into consideration before you just claim 1 manifold over another. That is just plain silly to do. A super Victor as good as it is will not work on a 350/380 inch engine as well as a smaller intake will at lower rpm. It will be 3-5 tenths slow. Put a super Victor or Dart on a 434 and you got what you need. Be careful how big of an intake you use compared to the engines size. Usually the moderate performance intake will be correct. The Bowtie stuff is pretty nice, as far as that goes, they most likely started it all anyway with all the Nascar stuff. Talking about pushing the system as far as it can go, they will find power at any cost!