why is it that no one makes an intake manifold for the tc yet?..im not talkin cold air or short ram, but actual intake manifolds.. is it good enough already? or is there room for improvement in this department?..what do you guys think?

 

actually it's a POS and we could definitely benefit from a nice long tube'd manifold

 

it is a pos from what i have seen and zpi told me they were making one a long time ago im still waiting for it before i install the driect port kit (come on zpi i needed this by last weekend i didnt get to race at boti ) i think if they dont have one out by the end of the year ill just "try" and make my own it cant be to hard lol i just need some flanges for the t/b and for the head

some thing like this pos would be awsome if we can fit one back there on the tc lol i think the pipes would have to bend down but you get the idea some thing that would alow me to drill some holes in it for the nitrous and also port match it but go back to stock if i ever have to

 

MMW was talkin about making one, but even if they do, and it turns out to be a great product, I still wont buy it from them. ZPI wold be another story though. Has anyone contacted them latly on it?

 

i haven't looked too much at the intake manifold's room but i know its NOT going to look like that straight off design. you're going to have to bend the hell out of those runners

 

yeah i figured that lol but you get the idea of the designe i want

 

why do you want short runners?

 

i dont realy want short runners but i want about 1.5 inches of straight pipe to put the nozels for the nitrous after that it can curv all it wants to the t/b but i want a straight shot in the the head i dont want the nitrous to have to flow through a maze lol you know what i meen right ???

 

oh comprendo

it actually makes sense with a FI setup

you get more torque from longer runners though (which would be best for natural aspiration)

 

At this point anything is better than the stock intake manifold. The ZPI nitrous car might still be running today if the factory manifold hadn't given out.

 

The ZPI car is still running, it's their 12sec turbo car.

 

^^^ You know what I meant

 

Right, gotcha :D

 

it poped on them lol cheap plastic hahaha soon we will have metal i hope my welder gets here in 3 weeks so ill try and find some one to make me a flange maybe some of my old buddys that worked at caterpiller with me can laser cut one for me out of scrap i need to find my old cell phone so i can get there numbers


any one know of a place that does mandral pipe bending in the chicago land area???

 

we are in the process of making a one-off sheetmetal intake manifold right now for our test mule shop car - we want to keep it relatively small so it can be used on both NA and Turbo applications and also offer a choice to run a different throttle body that is still drive by wire as to not run into any hassles that way - once we get our first prototype done we will be dyno testing it to see what we can pick up and make changes from there to get into a production unit

i know of 2 other companies that are actively kicking around the idea of an aftermarket intake manifold - just a matter of time till there are 4-5 on the market i am sure

 

i'm waiting on one