agentorange
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Street. Current plans are to have it in a 60 El Camino.
409 High HP 2x4 Intake Coming soon Plus Z-11
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Awesome looking engine!
that is super nice.
409 Chevy Performance
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I bought 2 from carl a 2x4 and a blower intake. Great results from the dyno session. Top Quality
Sure wished I was in the market. I'm to friggin old to go any faster, and besides, the Crusher is scared now.........
I am hoping to get my grubby hands on one.
It would be nice to have one that could be trimmed to suit but I bet you guys have a real good idea of what is the best.You are absolutely correct, the runners are the maximum length to allow this manifold to fit under a stock hood with some work. We have seen some significant performance gains over the stock intake even with these shorter than optimal runners. If the market was there, we could produce a taller version with optimized runners (several inches taller) but this would require hood modification-- what do you think?
Another sneak peek
Makes me wonder how one of these would work on Toms stroked engine in his SS with the heads from Dan and a new cam of choice. Then drop it in the BA 409.
Probably not enough compression to support one
Sorry guys was just day dreaming.
Maybe I'm crazy but would a cross ram set up make more sense to keep things under the hood? Basically build out rather than up. I'm more interested in finding a cross ram set up rather than a tunnel ram style set up myself. But M.T. only made so many of those odd balls.
To find a crossram....pricing pretty comparable......no real hp numbers.....would be nice to see an actual intake comparison of the available intake manifolds.....stock,eddy,crossram,speedport,McQuillen
It's my understanding from one of BSL 409's earlier posts is that the McQuillen will fit under a stock hood.Eariler post indicate that the cross ram is exceedingly difficult to get air filers on them.The cross ram design is better suited to under 6,500 rpm,where as the McQuillen will pull to well past 7,000 with the right engine combo.Both manifolds are quite streetable according to people that have used them.The Mc Quillen is cheaper,the crossram is hard to find,more expensive when you do find one and most of them need work due to age and abuse.
My guess is gravity is the reason for the runners going down rather than across.
A real good friend of mine spent some time in M/T shop and made a comment about Mickey answering the phone a bunch of time with people complaining about the cross ram. And he would say that that intake was made for a boat and slam the phone down.
A real good friend of mine spent some time in M/T shop and made a comment about Mickey answering the phone a bunch of time with people complaining about the cross ram. And he would say that that intake was made for a boat and slam the phone down.
So it's safe to say that almost anything is an improvement over the original factory piece. I know most of us don't have the facilities or a "mule" to test on, but what Keith proposes would be really interesting. I have the factory intake carb combo on one engine, and I am currently running a Holley on Aubrey's Speedport. And I still want to set up 2 Demons on an Edelbrock (and/or McQuillen) intake, but a more orderly test would be really informative.
Someone has Z11 parts for sale......... https://southjersey.craigslist.org/pts/5802847804.html