intake swaps??

[dohcfiend]

see what happens when i stray into the pushrod section, i see them swapping to newer intakes and wonder:

would there be any merit(in theory) to swapping to a newer intake. like the ones on the 3.6 dohc v6?

the 3900 ones look to be designed well too. granted they are not easy to find.

[Dave96z34]

http://email.autissimo.com/020106/50...ivetrain12.jpg looks kinda like the buick GN symbol.

[sspeedstreet]

I think alot of people have thought about it. I've seen a couple of doghouse designs for boost or high RPM power, but I'd like to see a long/short runner design. Something along the lines of the SHO intake.

[Husky]

On my spare engine, I'm actually in the process of grafting a SHO intake onto the LQ1. The biggest challenge thus far has been removing the damned Ford logo, and replacing it with an Arrowhead. LOL.

[sspeedstreet]

On my spare engine, I'm actually in the process of grafting a SHO intake onto the LQ1. The biggest challenge thus far has been removing the damned Ford logo, and replacing it with an Arrowhead. LOL.

No kidding?! Pictures, please!

[IsaacHayes]

Hmm good luck finding something to bolt up. There wasn't really a next gen 3.4 LQ1 was there? But the 3100/3400/3500 pushrods all evolved bascialy same motor but just better parts for power.

Is the SHO intake a varible intake (short/long)? How come the rear of the plenum connects like that, just to even out air pulses?

[ez112]

Maintenance purposes. You remove that to work on timing, etc. (damn PITA :P)

[dohcfiend]

does that tb also have a silicon fitting on the other side too? also what size is it?

[SappySE107]

Its a pretty small TB for the engine. My dad has this motor. Actually, he has a 95 SHO for sale if anyone wants a whole car to play with. You can take the awesome trans out and throw it in a lake.

[IsaacHayes]

ez: I meant why does the back peice even connect/is there. Why doesn't the plenum just stop before that peice.

Yeah the TB does look small for a DOHC motor. LOL @ trans comment.

[Fiero Brick]

Have you seen Michael Smith's short runner intake? He pretty much just built a plenum on top of the stock 96 lower intake.

Stock he put 174 horsepower to the wheels.

With custom tuned-length headers and his short-runner intake, a little cam timing tweaking to get optimum overlap, and of course some dyno tuning, he put 240 horsepower to the wheels.

http://fiero.cc/fiero-tdc/members/mws/intake/index.html

[SappySE107]

Yeah, and in a W body that setup would suck my ass.

[Fiero Brick]

For daily driving and until 5 grand, true. Any intake that flows more will raise your powerband, though. Not to mention, you could cut off part of the UIM and weld a plenum onto the remainder to get a runner length between stock and Michael Smith's. Kinda like Kohburn's new set-up... the one after the fire extinguisher intake.

[Husky]

Kinda like Kohburn's new set-up... the one after the fire extinguisher intake.

Any pics of that, BTW?