Torker Intake

one of the problems with this manifold is its name TORKER. this is kind of misleading. when this manifold was originally made its was intended for a more race application, edelbrock made a manifold at the same time (not sure the name of it i think strip dominator but not sure) that was made for the strip. it was a true race piece. both manifold were listed the same rpm range. rumble says it was 2500-6500 i remember it being 3000-7000 but that dont matter. the reason the torker was named torker was because its was intended to pull more power from the 3000 rpm side and rev to 7000. the other strip type manifold was intended to pull more torque from the 7000 rpm side. if you compare the 2 manifolds the torker and strip manifold have the same runner length, but the torker has much smaller runners and manifold heat provisions.the strip manifold has the heat blocked off. i used a torker manifold on a 340 that i ran on a 3/8 mile oval asphalt with a 2 bbl 500 holley.and it ran well, but with a holley strip manifold i picked up about 90 rpms with no sacrifice to bottom end torque. i also ran one on a 1970 340 challenger 509 cam 850 dp it ran good but when i put a ld340 manifold on it hesitations were gone and just as much top end about 6500 rpm. i didn't work on the carb to work the problems out of it and i think i could have but just a swap and the problems were gone. as was stated before its better then a stock 2 bbl manifold but its tough to cam for this manifold and get a good running piece anywhere.