Is this a decent intake manifold?

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273 said:
I don't get people spends thousands of dollars on parts but won't dyno or track tune there combos to get everything out of them.
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It is the normal human nature of "acquiring new stuph"..... ain't never goin' away. Besides, tuning requires thinking; buying just requires a credit card.

Just don't get me started on the 'look-good bling'....LOL
 
looks like the same intake off my 1978 360 I took out of a Cordoba.
 
2 Darts said:
trying to ID intake. Mopar used Thermoquads on the 340 starting in 1971. The part number is not correct for the 72 340. 360 4v engines also used the TQ and the E48 (318 4v) used a Quadrajet. The Carter Thermoquad and the Rochester Quadrajet are the only carburetors to have the large secondaries that would work on that manifold without some sort of adapter plate.
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Was the 318 E48 a car application as opposed to a truck? I thought Q-jets were only used on trucks in the '80's, but am trying to expand me education.
 
Performer will help, by shaving 30 lbs off the nose, thats it. Mopar iron 4bbl's were pretty good.
 
That's a 74 and up intake.
 
Wow....called a couple places here in Southern California...
Sand blast and powder coat - $120!!!!!!!

:wack:
 
I wouldn't waste time powder coating an EGR intake in the first place. Not that it's a bad intake at all, but it's not worth that, IMO.
 
MrJLR said:
Wow....called a couple places here in Southern California...
Sand blast and powder coat - $120!!!!!!!

:wack:
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Just blast it and slap a coat of paint on it. Buy an airgap (or whatever works) when you build a new motor to go in her..
 
Yup....we have a small cabinet blaster here at work....I'll blast it here and just paint it.....it'll take a while but for that kind of money.....it's worth it.


They could blast that thing in 5 minutes.....don't know what they're smoking to come up with those prices.....

:burnout:
 
According to my book that intake came on '80-'84 318's and '80 360's..
 
Locomotion said:
Was the 318 E48 a car application as opposed to a truck? I thought Q-jets were only used on trucks in the '80's, but am trying to expand me education.
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I've run across E48s in M-body cop cars. Actually, they were taxis that started out as TX DPS cars by the time I came across them. IIRC, the engines were 318s with roller cams and 360 heads. The carburetor was a non-feedback, electric choke Q-jet. I recall diving in on an old Diplomat (I was after the Firm Feel steering box) and was surprised to find a Rochester and not a Carter TQ sitting atop the engine. Later conversation with a DPS mechanic confirmed that's the way they got them. He reported they ran pretty well and had no annoying quirks.
 
MrJLR said:
Yup....we have a small cabinet blaster here at work....I'll blast it here and just paint it.....it'll take a while but for that kind of money.....it's worth it.


They could blast that thing in 5 minutes.....don't know what they're smoking to come up with those prices.....

:burnout:
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I smoke. But ^^ that is just simply ... bull$hit. I don't know how much air pressure you have your blaster set up for but even at 90 psi (the industry standard for air tools), you're looking at at least 45 minutes and probably closer to or over an hour to do the top, the bottom, the sides, and all the towers, plenum and recesses well enough for powder to adhere.

I realize this is an open forum where opinions are thrown around a lot but statements like that do nothing to help anyone ... especially some DIYer who may read that and decide he can restore his own intake in a couple of hours.

Good luck with your search.
 
CudaChick1968 said:
I smoke. But ^^ that is just simply ... bull$hit. I don't know how much air pressure you have your blaster set up for but even at 90 psi (the industry standard for air tools), you're looking at at least 45 minutes and probably closer to or over an hour to do the top, the bottom, the sides, and all the towers, plenum and recesses well enough for powder to adhere.

I realize this is an open forum where opinions are thrown around a lot but statements like that do nothing to help anyone ... especially some DIYer who may read that and decide he can restore his own intake in a couple of hours.

Good luck with your search.
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I was referring to their industrial sand blaster, not our cabinet blaster.

Calm down. Re-read.
 
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