BBK SSI intake manifold
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BBK SSI intake manifold
My car has a P1SC on it. Should I ditch the BBK for an LS6 manifold or just leave it alone? I was under the impression that the BBK was best suited for N/A cars (something about heat soak?)
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I did have one years ago looks pretty chrome looking and all, but yes it is a heat blanket for sure. I sold mine years ago. Look at a ls6 are ls2 intake...You will lose HP when it get hot even in a N/A motor... Robert
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funny how i did a back to back test with my weiland intake and my IATs were 7 degrees more then the ls6 intake.. The surface temp was not much higher either but i forgot thoughts numbers as they are illrelevent.
Anybody who says its heat soaks is just commenting without any test they have done personally, no offense Robert. FI cars are totally different then NA cars because you are forcing air thru the motor, rather in boost of not, which means air is less time spent on any given surface which means any heat on a surface will have little to no effect on the air charge. Further more, if you spray meth.. it don't matter anyways.
SO, if heat soak is such an issue, get rid of that aluminum head unit and that aluminum intercooler. Like i said, i have both.. and run the weiland without reservation.. and i run 26 psi.
Anybody who says its heat soaks is just commenting without any test they have done personally, no offense Robert. FI cars are totally different then NA cars because you are forcing air thru the motor, rather in boost of not, which means air is less time spent on any given surface which means any heat on a surface will have little to no effect on the air charge. Further more, if you spray meth.. it don't matter anyways.
SO, if heat soak is such an issue, get rid of that aluminum head unit and that aluminum intercooler. Like i said, i have both.. and run the weiland without reservation.. and i run 26 psi.
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funny how i did a back to back test with my weiland intake and my IATs were 7 degrees more then the ls6 intake.. The surface temp was not much higher either but i forgot thoughts numbers as they are illrelevent.
Anybody who says its heat soaks is just commenting without any test they have done personally, no offense Robert. FI cars are totally different then NA cars because you are forcing air thru the motor, rather in boost of not, which means air is less time spent on any given surface which means any heat on a surface will have little to no effect on the air charge. Further more, if you spray meth.. it don't matter anyways.
SO, if heat soak is such an issue, get rid of that aluminum head unit and that aluminum intercooler. Like i said, i have both.. and run the weiland without reservation.. and i run 26 psi.
Anybody who says its heat soaks is just commenting without any test they have done personally, no offense Robert. FI cars are totally different then NA cars because you are forcing air thru the motor, rather in boost of not, which means air is less time spent on any given surface which means any heat on a surface will have little to no effect on the air charge. Further more, if you spray meth.. it don't matter anyways.
SO, if heat soak is such an issue, get rid of that aluminum head unit and that aluminum intercooler. Like i said, i have both.. and run the weiland without reservation.. and i run 26 psi.
Man car must run good with 26 psi on her more ***** than I have. Robert
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no doubt it does dissipate heat slower when the cars off and sitting there... But i have never raced with my car off!!! haha I believe the benefits with a solid intake on a FI car would far out weigh any minimum lose that would occur, if any, from the 2 intakes themselves. Although there have been far less issues with the ls6 intake blowing out then on the fast intakes for Fi cars, I believe, although i have not seen for myself, that there have been a few intakes blow out. With the aluminum, the issues i had was oil coming out of the bottom from so much pressure, usually above 20..but it never blew apart. This was a crank case pressure anyways.
If i had a mild, say 1-15 psi boost car, ls6 intake would be fine because its cheaper then the aluminum. If i already had it, i would not get rid of it. Maybe that is a better way to put it. Both intakes work and do the one job it has on any FI car and that is providing a hole for the blower to shove air thru it.
If i had a mild, say 1-15 psi boost car, ls6 intake would be fine because its cheaper then the aluminum. If i already had it, i would not get rid of it. Maybe that is a better way to put it. Both intakes work and do the one job it has on any FI car and that is providing a hole for the blower to shove air thru it.
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My tuner gave me a hard time when I switched to my new setup this year. Some say that I lost HP over my LS6, but the way I look at is aluminum has been used on intakes for the past 50+ years on race cars.
Nobody says anything about weight or heat soak whenever someone goes with a custom made aluminum intake or a Victor Jr. So why is the Weiand, or BBK any different?
All I know is that the stock plastic intakes look terrible on a beautiful Corvette, and the Fast intakes look the worst!
When I pop my hood, all I get is compliments. And it's nice to have something different than everyone else!
Keep the BBK!
Just my .02
Nobody says anything about weight or heat soak whenever someone goes with a custom made aluminum intake or a Victor Jr. So why is the Weiand, or BBK any different?
All I know is that the stock plastic intakes look terrible on a beautiful Corvette, and the Fast intakes look the worst!
When I pop my hood, all I get is compliments. And it's nice to have something different than everyone else!
Keep the BBK!
Just my .02
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My tuner gave me a hard time when I switched to my new setup this year. Some say that I lost HP over my LS6, but the way I look at is aluminum has been used on intakes for the past 50+ years on race cars.
Nobody says anything about weight or heat soak whenever someone goes with a custom made aluminum intake or a Victor Jr. So why is the Weiand, or BBK any different?
All I know is that the stock plastic intakes look terrible on a beautiful Corvette, and the Fast intakes look the worst!
When I pop my hood, all I get is compliments. And it's nice to have something different than everyone else!
Keep the BBK! Just my .02
Nobody says anything about weight or heat soak whenever someone goes with a custom made aluminum intake or a Victor Jr. So why is the Weiand, or BBK any different?
All I know is that the stock plastic intakes look terrible on a beautiful Corvette, and the Fast intakes look the worst!
When I pop my hood, all I get is compliments. And it's nice to have something different than everyone else!
Keep the BBK!
Just my .02
With the clown here with F/I on the OP car with meth go with it for sure with what you have... At least you know you will not blow out and if you are hard core racer if it get hot you can put a few bags of ICE on top of it for time between runs to cool down. Robert
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