Installing a Tunnel Ram

Run more than one on more than one car. Is it optimum for the stock engine combination............... Congrats on being happy with it and on your reported results.

Not in any way to sink to your "ball" level, but stand behind my statements as I'm sure you do with yours. Simply slapping on a tunnel ram with no concept of tuning, flow characteristics, manifold design and perameters and other engine perameters just to be the hero to the High School kids at the local 7 Eleven is still not a wise plan. Same applies to any manifold. The manifold is just one component of the COMBINATION to get things working which is my point. Time spent matching cam, carb, heads, flow, engine build etc. should be done and taken into account with any build to make sure all work as you want in the desired and capable power band. Comes down to your knowledge level, abilities, experience, personality and what is important to you.

Can it or any manifold be made to work? Sure. Is it worth it? That is up to the individual owner and their knowledge/experience level. Simply throwing out numbers of hp gains without support and verifiable tests is as useless as your claimed "myths". Even with that there is no way to say that the posters 273 is going to get the same results as his combination/variables are not the same.

Thanks though for posting the great pic of the Lokar set up. Very interesting. I've not used the Lokar set up as I said, but understood that it ran on cables. Looks like a slick piece.

Sure a /6 intake has long runners, but what are their sizes, flow characteristics, what range are they tuned to work and what other factors in the engine are combined to make sure the engine has power in the required band and where that band is. Granted the /6 intake probabably does not make optimum power and torque, but compromises were most likely made for various factors in the overall car build and range of uses by the factory so they could get the broadest uses and economy of build out of production. As I mentioned before, can any manifold be made to work, sure. Will it work the way you wanted if other factors not taken into account, maybe not.

Like they always say about opinions and what they are like. Everybody has one (and I've been called a big one at times, lol). You are welcome to yours as I am welcome to mine. If we were all the same it would be a boring world!

So opinions done with to the posters original question. You can install the intake as with any other intake. The Lokar set up that is nicely pictured by DJVCUDA looks to be the slickest set up to get you up and running without having to cobble. Run your petrol line and do normal intake swap installation things. Best of luck with it whatever you decide.

Cheers