New TrickFlow vs Edelbrock Victor340 intake testing. Numbers are in.
@pittsburghracer
The intake only gets so good. What a lot of people forget is;
1; That intake was designed for a stock OEM iron head. It was modeled after the Holley Strip Dominator.
2; There was no after market aluminum head except the oval port W2 by Diamond and Batten.
3; At the time, those aluminum heads were a rich man’s game. Not the average Joe like you and I.
4; As time goes on, advancements are made and the ceiling of performance goes up. Everyone forgets the past and compare the last item to the new standard. This happens over and over until the item is obsolete. But when it gets used again, some people balk at what it does because they forgot the past.
Us older fellas remember when you could get the Offenhauser Port-O-Sonic as a new manifold, follow it he DC instructions and have the baddest intake possible. Today, it’ll only be used for nostalgic reasons or to save a buck.
It was bad *** then, but obsolete today.
Can it perform? Heck yea. But it does have a ceiling and a modern intake should hand the old intake a real pasting in power return.
I’ll be running the M1 with the spacer (if it proves worthy on the application) with a TQ for fun in the street. At the track, better options that are available will be used.
@pittsburghracer
The intake only gets so good. What a lot of people forget is;
1; That intake was designed for a stock OEM iron head. It was modeled after the Holley Strip Dominator.
2; There was no after market aluminum head except the oval port W2 by Diamond and Batten.
3; At the time, those aluminum heads were a rich man’s game. Not the average Joe like you and I.
4; As time goes on, advancements are made and the ceiling of performance goes up. Everyone forgets the past and compare the last item to the new standard. This happens over and over until the item is obsolete. But when it gets used again, some people balk at what it does because they forgot the past.
Us older fellas remember when you could get the Offenhauser Port-O-Sonic as a new manifold, follow it he DC instructions and have the baddest intake possible. Today, it’ll only be used for nostalgic reasons or to save a buck.
It was bad *** then, but obsolete today.
Can it perform? Heck yea. But it does have a ceiling and a modern intake should hand the old intake a real pasting in power return.
I’ll be running the M1 with the spacer (if it proves worthy on the application) with a TQ for fun in the street. At the track, better options that are available will be used.