Adding a Blackwing Intake, A Question.....
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Adding a Blackwing Intake, A Question.....
Is it an advantage to add a smooth coupling in place of the stock bellows style? A buddy of mine read that the stock bellows is good for up to 500 H.P. which my relatively stock C5 (Mods = intake and Exhaust) does not approach. Is the change to the smooth coupling worthwhile?
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Dump the stock bellows because it pops off under load (and it does). Otherwise, a smooth coupler adds no significant advantage.
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Originally Posted by EnglandGreen
Dump the stock bellows because it pops off under load (and it does). Otherwise, a smooth coupler adds no significant advantage.
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Originally Posted by Bills03Coupe
It pops off? It actually pulls away from the MAF? By under load, do you mean at wide open throttle?
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I agree with the others here. Probably very little power gain if any at all.
If you can get one fairly inexpensively, it doesn't hurt anything though.
If you can get one fairly inexpensively, it doesn't hurt anything though.
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Originally Posted by LoneStarFRC
I agree with the others here. Probably very little power gain if any at all.
If you can get one fairly inexpensively, it doesn't hurt anything though.
If you can get one fairly inexpensively, it doesn't hurt anything though.
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It could happen
While participating in a West Coast Corvette Chellange, I noticed that I had come disconnnected. I put it back on and every time I would do a burnout and close the throttle quickly, it would blow back off. Immediate fix was duct tape. I zip-tied that puppy on when I got home. No problem since then.
