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Old Dec 18, 2009 | 04:48 PM
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In general, for boosted applications, EITHER of these manifold should make a decent amount of power over the stock manifold. If you have the $$$ to get it, deff get it. If you dont, then the stock IM would be more than sufficient.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 04:51 PM
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I like the plastic intake manifold personally its well designed for a plastic one. Ive seen VW plastic and ford ones blow to pieces with nitrous, I ran a 70 shot for a long time and it held up great.

if I had to choose Id get descendant since I hate the goofy angled throttle body on the tc
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue_TC_Man
I like the plastic intake manifold personally its well designed for a plastic one. Ive seen VW plastic and ford ones blow to pieces with nitrous, I ran a 70 shot for a long time and it held up great.

if I had to choose Id get descendant since I hate the goofy angled throttle body on the tc

Same! I HATE that wierd angle of the throttle body!
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by draxcaliber
does anybody on this forum other than me actually have one of these manifolds? i'm running the world racing manifold right now.
There is another guy can't remember his screen name 300tc something. It's dave his setup is the cleanest I have ever seen from anyone who does not work at a good shop for a living.

His idled fine, tip in was a different story but that isn't the intake manifolds fault.
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 06:24 PM
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yea dave is local to me and he has the descendant mani. his car idles fine
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 06:33 PM
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we just need some proven dyno sheets plane and simple!
Old Dec 18, 2009 | 11:18 PM
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i vote for aj's billet design custom intake mani. complete with 80mm cable throttle body.


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Old Dec 18, 2009 | 11:26 PM
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^ Yeah Marco at Billet does bad___ work... his prices aren't so bad___.. but he can get away with it because his clientele is wealthy.

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Old Dec 19, 2009 | 02:20 AM
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that looks bad___, what is the tb size?
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 02:44 AM
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Originally Posted by DezodDon
There is another guy can't remember his screen name 300tc something. It's dave his setup is the cleanest I have ever seen from anyone who does not work at a good shop for a living.

His idled fine, tip in was a different story but that isn't the intake manifolds fault.
theres also another guy, SN is Rasta i believe, blue tc, stock wheels, brembo brakes, but he runs Hydra, dont know if that has anything to do with it
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 03:17 AM
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X2!!! For Marco's manifold!!!!! That ____ looks nice. Jg autowoks the ones that made my mani might have to make me a intake mani. Hey Brett who did that turbo mani!!!
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 03:21 AM
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Marcelo that was also done by Marco at Billet (turbo manifold).
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 04:00 AM
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Nice. Robert mister I text you lol.
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 08:01 PM
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Shoot, I've been waiting for a dyno sheet from Descendant before I even decided to come close to pulling the trigger on a Manifold.
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Firefightin_tC
Shoot, I've been waiting for a dyno sheet from Descendant before I even decided to come close to pulling the trigger on a Manifold.
i offered my car for the dyno and they agreed, but i had to buy thier manifold, pay for tuning and dyno time as well as paying them to install it. they didn't care for results or pitching in on cost.
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ESEMRFOZZ13
i offered my car for the dyno and they agreed, but i had to buy thier manifold, pay for tuning and dyno time as well as paying them to install it. they didn't care for results or pitching in on cost.
Oh, damn all that noise.

And not to mention for 700 bucks that I'd have to drop, I care about results, lol.

Let's hear it for OEM plastic! WOO!
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by brett561tc
i vote for aj's billet design custom intake mani. complete with 80mm cable throttle body.

Is that something that they are producing for tc other owners?!?
Old Dec 19, 2009 | 10:33 PM
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For flare factor go with the neo chrome weapon-r for sure. Im sure both will yeild gains. But Descendant is out there running this hardcore so they got my vote.

But those custom ones Rock!!
Old Dec 20, 2009 | 01:13 AM
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Does anyone have before and after numbers with any intake mani. I gave up on waiting for the descendant thread.
Old Dec 20, 2009 | 01:49 AM
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Me and you both, bruddah.



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