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 This happens over and over until the item is obsolete.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.

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I think a square bore M1 ported like yours would be the prefect intake for my son in Colorado. He has a 360 That is supposed to be slightly modified in his four speed 1973 Cuda. He also has two 340 engines. I have a set of Speedmaster heads for him that need finished and I think that would make a nice street combo out there. I had talked to Jim at Racer Brown about a nice hydraulic cam but my son had a house built so we put the brakes on that idea for now.