LOL.....:cheers: Every component matters and needs to match. If it is completely stock long block, that cast intake will be hard to beat! I once did a test on a 360. It was a pretty baseline motor save 9 to 1 pistons, and a mild MP cam with headers. I removed the cast intake and TQ for a LD340 and 750 dp. I gained exactly .15 in the 1/4. I brought with me a 625 carter AFB. I bolted that on and lost a tenth. I take it the 750 dp was running a little richer and thus the reason it outperformed the TQ and carter.