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Discussion in 'Street/strip 400/430/455' started by Jim Weise, Oct 1, 2021.

  1. 350cid

    350cid Well-Known Member

    I've heard it has a lot to do with CA and their truck emissions laws..... something like no trucks older than 2011, and mandating electrics after a certain date, and trucking companies aren't investing in new diesel trucks that won't be allowed to run long enough, or something like that.
     
  2. Brandon Cocola

    Brandon Cocola Well-Known Member

    I work with castings. First is quantity. The reason is how you will make the pattern. If you only need one or two then you could do lost foam casting. If you want to do more then you can think about making a pattern. Also if you make enough parts you can justify the cost of the pattern. (If you only need 2 parts making a $1300+ pattern doesn't always make sense.) This is not even including the machining of the carb base, and head mounting surface and possibly jigs for that.

    Would a fabricated manifold be any better? I know single plane would be easy but dual plane may take some thought.
     
  3. 350cid

    350cid Well-Known Member

    Why not lost foam for lots of parts? GM did it on the 1.9L Saturn engines.
     
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  4. Brandon Cocola

    Brandon Cocola Well-Known Member

    If you are just carving the Styrofoam you don't get the consistency but since you are not building a mold it's cheaper. If you are making a mold for the foam mold then they can be consistent. But you have the money in the mold.
     
  5. D-Con

    D-Con Kills Rats and Mice

    If doing a duplicating thing, how about something along the lines of duplicating a 383 performer RPM with adapter plates? Dear proform, if you're going to make a crappy copy, at least copy something fabricated to a unique configuration, that will be worth the trouble of fixing.

    It ain't just Buick, that is for sure.
     
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  6. PGSS

    PGSS Silver Level contributor

    Summit doesn't care which generic product they show do they??:rolleyes:
    Thats a BBC intake and almost $800 for the Buick one.
     
  7. avmechanic

    avmechanic Well-Known Member

    I would love to buy a new B4B or two for the current engines I am building but at over $600 CAD it is not a good bang for the buck performance wise so I am just going to stick with the cast intake. I would certainly consider a stock appearing aluminum intake for less than that if you ever get one made Jim. Like you say. it would be great to see someone design an RPM style dual plane. That is right in the range of engine I am building. The SP1 is my next choice but I would much prefer a RPM mid rise dual plane.
    Greg
     
  8. Brandon Cocola

    Brandon Cocola Well-Known Member

    A performer rpm for a big block Chrysler is 350 bucks, what about adapters for that.
     
  9. 70sc455

    70sc455 Well-Known Member

    Just out of curiosity are there any updates to add? I like the idea.
     
  10. hugger

    hugger Well-Known Member

    Best chance we have at it a call to speedmaster...but to be honest...as beneficial as a long runner hir rise air gap intake would be I wouldn't buy one simply because it's made in China now granted so is soooo many other things on and in our cars....but damn that thing would be rite there staring at you constantly
     
  11. hugger

    hugger Well-Known Member

    Port alignment isn't as close as people say....it's "works" I guess but it's not ideal
     
  12. Fox's Den

    Fox's Den 355X

    Did the idea go away here on the stock aluminum intake? The prices are thru the roof now on everything performance, probably the real problem with this
     
  13. VET

    VET Navy Vet, Founders Club

    How expensive would it be to print a 3D CAD design of an intake?

    Is the cost over the top?

    At least with 3D printing, you can design any type of intake.

    Just curious
     

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