TA Aluminum Intake OR ALuminum Heads(this is for real)

Nice intake Mike. Thanks for producing them.
Derek ,doesn't look like you need to make that one fit my engine.

 

Why is the ports shaped the same as before? Look at any other brands and see what works and you need to extend the intake ports in the plenum and watch it wake up, curve the bottom of the plenum and it will even get better. Air and fuel like gentle curves not hard curves then straight! Just some word of advise...

 

instead of complaining, spend your money and make the parts! basically, put up or shut up.!!!

 

I think your looking at to many Chevy intakes . I'm sure this intake has the potential to increase power and rpm range of the small block quite a bit. If it works for the sp1 and Spx I'm sure its good for the sp3

 

Well said

 

I'm not trying to disappoint you guys, just saying why are people modifying Mopar intake that have everthing I just mentioned to adapt to Buicks then. And yes they make why more power then any intake TA has made of today. I have nothing againest TA Performance and matter of fact I have called and made suggestions that many on here already know and seen it does work. Yes that intake is good to a certain extent then you gotta modify it to much to even make it work rt then. Make one as cast and all you need it simple porting to make it rt.

 

The Buick 350 fans are SUPER happy and thankful to TA for making the intake and heads and they will work great! They made a single plane intake that fits under the hood of a Skylark, this is not a max effort intake. I spent about $1200 on my custom buick 350 intake and Hogan was asking $3000 to build me one so I feel I got a good deal on mine... That being said there are not a lot of people willing to pay that money to get a custom intake built... This is where the TA single plane intake comes in:

Now people can build a 10:1 350 with ported iron heads, 310 cam, and this intake and be running very respectable both on the street and at the track without spending a fortune....

Or people can run 11:1, ported iron heads, 510 cam, and have a serious drag racing engine without spending too much money...

The intake has been the bottle neck for the 350 and this new SP is a game changer! The poston and ta dual plane intakes were barely better than stock... Years ago we proved that the single plane intake woke up the 350 and i am very thankful to TA for stepping up and providing us an affordable option to raise the power band for the 350... Till now adding a huge cam just resulted in low rpm torque loss and a tiny gain in the upper rpm, now we will see some rpm and it takes rpm to make power with only 350 cid and no power adder!

 

What will be needed now is decent rods as these engines will see much higher rpm ranges even with cams like the 310. But maybe some new cams able to take advantage of the intake and heads.

 

Well said there.

I think the intake looks bad a**, Makes we want to think about putting the 510 cam back in to see what happens. But I bet a solid lifter roller would be more fun.

Nice job on the intake Mike.

The wait is finally over Now lets get it on.

 

TA added a lot of great options into this intake.and it looks as though the valley pan is no longer needed. injector bosses and coolant access at both rear sides of heads. 4 coolant access ports on front,air gap around runners. they took a lot of advice on building this intake and created a lot of uses in one. excellent piece of work cant wait to see dyno and flow comparisons

 

I think many are missing the power factor. Fuel bosses... now there is the ability to make a sbb wake up and be more efficient while running.

 

my preference is that you stay out of our sandbox. go back and harass the 455 guys.

 

Where's the damn like button!

 

that's some funny $hit.

 

The best bet would be to have brian (see info below) sell you a set of eagle rods that are already modified to work with a stock Buick 350 bearing. He also has a line on the matching ross pistons to work with the non stock rod length.

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Or perhaps he can alter a set of LS 6.460" or 6.560" rods that have the Honda 1.889" rod journal, if he is any good he would even be able to open the big end up to 2.125"from 2.008"(.0585 per side, might be to much?o No for Buick bearings.

 

I am sure there are a ton of ways to make different rods work but the main limitation is the cost of machine work, and the potential for lack of clearance between the camshaft and big end of the rods... Then you still need custom pistons so it is something that could easily be screwed up...

Where as the eagle rod and ross piston setup is proven, requires little machine work, uses a stock bearing, and is not very expensive.

I am sure Hershe will do another run of rods if enough people want them, and i like the fact that they are stock spec as is keeps the piston the same height as buick designed into the engine.

 

Or perhaps he can alter a set of LS 6.460" or 6.560" rods that have the Honda 1.889" rod journal, if he is any good he would even be able to open the big end up to 2.125"from 2.008"(.0585 per side, might be to much?o No for Buick bearings.[/QUOTE]

eagle has a 6.460 rod with chevy 2.100 big end. and .927 pin shouldn't take much to get these what we need and im sure racetec forged can alter compression height to 1.805. which would make it about .010 down hole. go longer with rod not shorter