Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!
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Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!
FYI, a plastic intake is now available from AFR for our engines. It's not exactly fuel injection ready but they do have bosses for injectors. At $600 it ought to have fuel rails and be injector ready though!
This is the first aftermarket intake that I've been excited about though. I just wish someone would make plastic runners and upper plenum for TPI!
This is the first aftermarket intake that I've been excited about though. I just wish someone would make plastic runners and upper plenum for TPI!
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I just wish someone would make plastic runners and upper plenum for TPI!
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Re: Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!
True but I like the TPI's look and long runners for my application. One thing I don't like about tpi is there is so much surface area to absorb underhood heat. Plastic would be a nice upgrade in this area.
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Re: Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!
my buddy has a cobalt and my girlfriend has a 240sx and both of them have had thier plastic intakes blow into pieces with a nitrous backfire.. anyone on here have any personal experieces with thme? id love to get one.
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I'd like to see it tested under boost. I have read Tony Mamo's responses to this intake and its been pressure tested to high pressure and show no signs of leaking or blowing up so thats a good sign
Seems like a great idea to beable to adjust plenums and runners on this intake but not sure if that would significantly help a EFI motor as much as it would a carb setup. Plus i'm not sure how you'd "plastic weld" injector bungs into that intake. Those spots onthe manifold look like nitrous nozzle tap locations and not for injectors.
Seems like a great idea to beable to adjust plenums and runners on this intake but not sure if that would significantly help a EFI motor as much as it would a carb setup. Plus i'm not sure how you'd "plastic weld" injector bungs into that intake. Those spots onthe manifold look like nitrous nozzle tap locations and not for injectors.
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Re: Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!
I'm assuming the main advantage of this would be to cut down on heat transfer. However, I'm curious on what other advantages plastics intakes pose.
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Well this design featured an adjustable section to change runner/plenum profiles, or atleast thats my understanding.... thats the main advantage so you can dial in the power curve for the combo.
For a carb motor thats more important because you can run a single plane intake on a stock cammed L98 EFI motor and it would run well, but that intake on a carbed L98 wouldnt run well at all.
For a carb motor thats more important because you can run a single plane intake on a stock cammed L98 EFI motor and it would run well, but that intake on a carbed L98 wouldnt run well at all.
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