Custom Upper Intake

Custom Upper Intake


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MikeRenz

not stock
Well i'm bouncing around ideas and figured i'd ask for a general concensus.


Option 1:
My original plan was to build a complete upper intake that mounts to the stock syty lower intake, but is front firing. Here was my cardboard mockup:

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I already have flanges for the tb and intake waterjetted....and i traced out the template on some sheet alum to cut out. But now i'm wondering if maybe i should go this route instead:


Option 2:
Use a 350 TPI intake, cut it down, about in half longways, shave off the bottom and make it mate up to the syty lower intake
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-or-
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Option 3:
Another route i contemplated was using the lingenfelter/accel intake elbow and an edelbrock lower intake.
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So which route would you choose if you were in my shoes?
 
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12secondSY

Syty Killer :(
Re: Custom Upper Intake

I like option #1 and #3 but if only they had a lower to work with vortecs also :tup:
 

jjorgensen52

NHSTE - I'm the only one!
Re: Custom Upper Intake

I vote for option #1 ... I think that one will be the best of the three (although I do like things that are different)
 

MRKING

New Parts for Old Trucks
Re: Custom Upper Intake

Edelbrock intake all the way . Thats next on my list of mods to still do .
 

Black Knight

I Glow Therefore I am
Re: Custom Upper Intake

I like number one Mike, number two seems like alot of work, and number three is just ugly.
 

MikeRenz

not stock
Re: Custom Upper Intake

#2 seems like it'd be less work than #1 imo. Would require less welding anyway...and less opportunity to leak.

I don't think #3 is ugly...but to each their own.
 

Flyin Ryan

hated cuz he drives fords
Re: Custom Upper Intake

I would think option number 1 would be most pimp especially with the inlet facing forward
 

Black Knight

I Glow Therefore I am
Re: Custom Upper Intake

MikeRenz said:
#2 seems like it'd be less work than #1 imo. Would require less welding anyway...and less opportunity to leak.

I don't think #3 is ugly...but to each their own.

Maybe ugly was the wrong word. It's hard for me to like it when you have a nicely polished one right above it. Guess I need to have more vision, if you polished # 3 like # 2 it would look much more apealing.

Also # 3 doesn't require any fabrication so that is also a plus.
 

MikeRenz

not stock
Re: Custom Upper Intake

Jimmy said:
A cut down Ramjet ZL1 manifold would rule.
its been done...that intake is cool, but huge. Friend is putting one on his 350 build - shit is huge.
 

Jimmy

Banned
Re: Custom Upper Intake

MikeRenz said:
its been done...that intake is cool, but huge. Friend is putting one on his 350 build - shit is huge.
Really if I were you I'd just buy/make/procure a running/rebuilt truck and fugghetaboutit the dumb shit. :tup:
 

Sy+Ty

New member
Re: Custom Upper Intake

#3 all the way, plug 'n play. What does that Lingfelter piece go for? I understand they're scarce & Accel doesn't make them anymore.

However, I'd be very interested in Option 1 as well, esp. if the price was right.
 

MikeRenz

not stock
Re: Custom Upper Intake

#3 really isn't anymore/less plug n play than the other 2 options. You still have to weld injector bungs to that intake and make fuel rails for it.

I'll be going w/ option 1 or 2...and have 0 intentions on making one for anyone else. Part of the reason i want to do it is so no one else has it :)
 

dgoodhue

BuSTeD 4.3
Re: Custom Upper Intake

I dunno but I am always worried about air fuel distributions issue, so I would go with something that already tested and not be a guinea pig.

Let me rephrase that, when thinking about custom intakes, I am always worried...
 
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