Typhoon Intake Experience??
 

SO I'm looking for a new upper ad lower intake manifold. I've seen on Ebay a bunch of those "Typhoon" intakes made by some foriegn Performance Parts or something.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=36474
... ANyways .. I read the below linked article on them, and how they're supposedly imitation Edelbrock Performers. I hate screwing good Americna companies over, but I'm in college and poor. Does anyone have any experience with these? If not, the below article is pretty good.
http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2...ke/index.shtml

I use the Typhoon on my car. Its not a bad intake, It just needs to be cleaned up a little with a die grinder. The casting is a little rough, so I wish I would have spent the money on the polished version. Overall though, its a decent intake, and for the price difference you can do a lot of grinding! Thats my opinion anyways.

I agree...same experience here.

I have the same thoughts too. The runners are a little rough in the intake, but nothing some griding couldn't take care of. Got mine new for $300 shipped off Ebay this time last year.

Chris

Did you guys do your own port work or take it in to a machine shop? If so, how many hours worth of clean-up port/polishing was required? Also, did you have it sliced and welded back together or just the runner entry ports? THanks for the feedback guys!

You dont have to slice the typhoon intake the end of the plenum is held on with bolts.

I did it myself...probably put around 10 hours into making it look decent.

I was looking at that intake also but the thing i was wondering is if you can get a one inch thick spacer for it. I was reading somewhere that in order to run large value covers to clear roller rockers you need to have atleast a one inch intake spacer.

In that article/review from Ford Muscle (Link posted above in first post) .. they said the upper and lower poarts of that Typhoon were interchangaable with the Edelbrock Performer Series, so I would imagine if they make spacers for the Performer, you could just use that.

Yes that is true. The caveat to the spacer is that you will need a cowl hood. My intake with no spacer touches my hood already.

Yeah Jim cleaned up his typhoon intake and the green machine ran 11's for the first time compared to the higly worked over gt 40 that never got him lower than 12.3.

I have one halway done being cleaned up for sale that I didn't finish because I stoped my blown 347 fastback project in favor for what you see in my sig.

I PMed you, but just in case you didn't get that .. how much are you looking to let that intake go for? Thanks