Saturday, August 13, 2011

New Intake Project

So the new plan is to get a used intake like an Edelbrock Torker II, it's a single plane design for use inthe 2500 to 6500 rpm range. Edelbrock's victor series would be even better, they have much straighter intake runners, but they are much taller, and hood clearance might be a problem. 

 Then adapt the first throttle body I bored, modified and polished and bolt it in place of the carburetor.

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Then drill the intake for fuel injection. Another reason I chose the torker II intake was ease of access to the intake ports, a dual plane intake has runners that come in from two different heights and that complicates the injector install. As you can see in the last picture. Not that it couldn't be done, but the Torker II will just be easier. Going with fuel injection over carburation allows me to use less complicated intake designs. Dual plane intakes are designed to assist in the flow of air and fuel, I'm only worried about the flow of the air.