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Old 01-12-2011, 10:19 PM
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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!

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Re: Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!

Originally Posted by ZZ3Astro
I just wish someone would make plastic runners and upper plenum for TPI!
Actually, in your case, you would only need a plastic elbow w/that manifold, as being your running the Megasquirt you can essentially run any throttle body that you want to that would bolt to it....
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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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Re: Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!

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.
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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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they're light.
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Re: Plastic Vic Jr style intake for gen 1 now available!

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.
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