Intake manifold options for a Magnum 5.9/360

Kern Dog said

Forgive me, I actually did do a search on this but found nothing....which surprised be a bit.
Regardless, I'm curious about what intake manifolds are available that fit a Dodge 5.9 Magnum engine. I'm looking for a basic dual plane mid rise single 4 barrel design.
I remember this one....

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....BUT while the picture shows a Magnum style vertical intake bolt setup the Magnums used, it is described as "Small Block". The price is unbelievably cheap too. Compare that to this one...

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Almost FIVE hundred dollars for an intake manifold ???

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The Chinese air gap copies are all very similar and area all decent for a mild or mid range Magnum or LA build.
They are listed for small blocks because a Magnum is a small block and it also fits a regular LA small block with its dual bolt patterns. As mentioned in post 16 the dual pattern Chinese intakes all have the LA style thermostat housing and location. It also has the LA angled and positioned bypass hose location. If you are running LA front accessories and water pump this should be no problem at all. If you are running Magnum front accessories without air conditioning this is no problem.

I put together a decent 360 with Magnum Edelbrock heads and a Chinese airgap. It was actually damaged engine I bought and fixed up. Long story short my plan was always to run a M1 single plane but I started out with the air gap it came with, did not get it to the track in time and then switched the M1 single plane on it. I have not fully tuned either setup yet but there was a noticably better throttle response with the Chinese air gap than with the M1 single plane. For a street application, who would complain about good throttle response.