Editor's Note: As inanimate as intake manifolds may appear, they provide a path to both major and minor on-track power gains. Selection is one thing; "tuning" them to specific applications is a blend ...
For example, testing demonstrated a clear 175-rpm torque peak shift for each 25mm change in intake runner length. With a stock baseline runner length of 275 mm, engineers went to both extremes of the ...
BBK's latest SSI-R 5.0 short-runner intake is aimed at supercharged and high-rpm 5.0s : If a new 5.0 intake manifoldmakes you feel, uh, dated, let's say our first dyno test for what wouldbecome this ...