air intake bellows, smooth tubes.
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air intake bellows, smooth tubes.
i have a 96 LT4, where can i get smooth intake bellows(from the throttle bodie to the MAF and the MAF to the air box)? :chevy :steering: :steering:
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Re: air intake bellows, smooth tubes. (pettsir)
Eckler's sells them So does Mid America (I think...)
But they're sort of useless. They don't help with hp or torque. The stock air bridge is the accordian ribbed design so as to resist collapsing inward during high demand operation, and it doesn't really make the intake charge that turbulent.
Better to use the $$ on a set of low resistance spark plug wires like Taylor Spiro Pro's, MSD's, or Magnecore's. The OEM carbon filled wires ain't that great for voltage delivery (but they do suppress RFI well...)
But they're sort of useless. They don't help with hp or torque. The stock air bridge is the accordian ribbed design so as to resist collapsing inward during high demand operation, and it doesn't really make the intake charge that turbulent.
Better to use the $$ on a set of low resistance spark plug wires like Taylor Spiro Pro's, MSD's, or Magnecore's. The OEM carbon filled wires ain't that great for voltage delivery (but they do suppress RFI well...)
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Re: air intake bellows, smooth tubes. (Lone Ranger)
The stock air bridge is the accordian ribbed design so as to resist collapsing inward during high demand operation, and it doesn't really make the intake charge that turbulent.
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Re: air intake bellows, smooth tubes. (Steel Blue 91)
You could by the smooth tube to smooth out the air and then by the Tornado to churn up the air. Also the Tornado would keep the smooth tube from collapsing. For a couple hundred dollars you could be right where you started. :lol:
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Re: air intake bellows, smooth tubes. (Larry Mackey)
You could by the smooth tube to smooth out the air and then by the Tornado to churn up the air. Also the Tornado would keep the smooth tube from collapsing. For a couple hundred dollars you could be right where you started. :lol:
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Re: air intake bellows, smooth tubes. (pettsir)
:D :D :D P T Barnum said it best, there's a sucker born every minute :D :D
GM would have done this and a lot of the other inexpensive horespower mods if they worked :D
The only "free or cheap mode" I have seen make adifference is getting rid of my "frisbee" and the old tick of opening the spark plug gap to 0.50. cutting back the ground tip at the point where it curves, will do the same thing.
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GM would have done this and a lot of the other inexpensive horespower mods if they worked :D
The only "free or cheap mode" I have seen make adifference is getting rid of my "frisbee" and the old tick of opening the spark plug gap to 0.50. cutting back the ground tip at the point where it curves, will do the same thing.
:seeya
:steering:
