87 vette 81 big girl

Is the Edelbrock Pro Flo Intake an aluminum boat anchor to use on a C4?

I was at the Chicago Drag Expo today.
Edelbrock had a large display on hand.
I spotted their Small block Chevy Pro-Flo intake system.
Was somewhat impressive to see 1st hand and look over.
And promising for Torque and HP production.
Sales guy said no problem, it would fit my 87 vert easily.
Clear the stock hood when closed.
I also noted that it used a LS1 style thottle body.
And linkage mounted on passenger side instead of drivers as C4's are stock.
No TV cable provision for a 700R4 trans also.
When I read more on the Edelbrock Pro Flo intake using the SEARCH function.
Did not like what I read.
A fellow C4 forum member installed a Pro-Flow on his 95 LT1 Vette.
Wouldn't clear his hood till he trimmed the upper casting mount for the throttle body.
Had to track down an early LS1 throttle body.
Deal with replumbing the fuel system.
After spending many hours getting the install right and much $$$,
He ran slower in the 1/4 mile.
Posts ended shortly after with him starting a new build. A stroker engine combo.
No further results or updates.

If it does work, any real Torque and HP increases?
Or is it an engineering and production failure that Edelbrock released a few years back?

Looking like an ACCEL Super Ram or custom EFI intake is a better choice for me thus far tonight.
Build my own from a cut down, machined down daul quad carburated tunnel ram for a SBC. And some fancy fabrication.
Using Brodex 1986 and earlier intake bolt pattern heads on my stroker engine.

Drag Expo was OK but no Swap meet this year for some unknown reason.
My friend with me was very dissapointed too. The best reason to show up their was for all large assortment of Speed and Racing equipment in used condition. Often unused too.

Had $$ on hand to buy my Hilborn or Kinsler SBC injection system.
To be had used in the past always at this swapmeet in the past years.
Just my luck. LOL

Brian

rodj

Just modify the well proven HSR to fit under a C4 hood like LD85 and JoBy did years ago

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-t...ification.html

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/1556291257-post19.html

or Chaos's quicky version
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-t...r-hsr-mod.html

87 vette 81 big girl

I see there has been many other attempts to home fabricate a better EFI system for our C4's.
And they all look Nice in your links provided.
Had something slightly different in mind yet.

That Edelbrock Pro-Flow system Junk ???

Appears that way to me.........

Brian

cv67

On the right app with good tuning bet they would work alright.

Id bet most the web feedback you see on "This part is a POS " threads is due to installer error.
Not saying this in regards to this intake, just generally speaking.

Havent really seen anyone use one yet with real results so hard to say.

87 vette 81 big girl

I have not seen many results either on the Edelbrock Pro-Flow sbc efi system either.
That poor guy in Missouri sure went through an awful lot of work and $$ installing his Pro-Flow and did pretty nice craftsmanship.
Lack luster results he had.
His tune could have been way off too.
No one likes buying boat anchor parts.
Hard to say right now if its a decent system or not.
Super Ram has been around a long time now. And it works I know.

Brian

JackDidley

Miniram. Its proven, available and easy.

87 vette 81 big girl

Yes, thought of it also.
Like being different too.
Not buying anything tonight. Still have time to decide.

tpi 421 vette

Hi Brian, what size engine are you building, and what kind of rpm are you planning on turning?

I can relate on like to be different. That is the main reason I built a 450... not too many of them out there.

383vett

SuperRam all the way Brian.

87 vette 81 big girl

They all work nicely,
Still like being different guys.
Its too bad most high performance parts development has come to a standstill some on C4's.

I may conform or use what works for others on C4 racing their Vettes hard.

Brian

vetteoz

yedister

These are what determines which intake you choose. I would go with modified carb intake for fuel injection. Check out these dyno comparision
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~davis/z28/winter01/dyno/

Kubs

USAsonlyway here on the forum has the Pro-Flo intake and he got good results with it. Hopefully he will post here.

Calderone

Right here in Chile there is a builder shop which is very very expensive and somehow they have used the Pro flo in a couple of C4's but i think they tend to follow the "Edelbrock" thing like its the best,they don't know about MR,SR and HSR , they have done the SR as well but for me everything works better with the proper head,cam intake and torque converter if automatic,but i don't think here Corvette owners are willing to mod to that point. Super Ram for me !

383vett

That certainly is different.

0Paul Ruggeri

That's not gonna fit under the stock hood.

tpi 421 vette

I can't believe somebody actually did that! It sure is interesting!

383vett

Buy it Jim, and try it out for the rest of us. It should work great on one of your monster motors.

tpi 421 vette

That looks like the hot set up. I bet it has great fuel distribution.

That pretty much sums it up!

bjankuski

I am sure that a correctly designed engine package will work well with the Pro Flow intake. The Pro Flow is very similar to the HSR and it works very well in the 2500 to 6500 RPM band.