How fast are you going with a Torker intake

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my son got a Torker intake on a 340 he recently bought. I haven’t ran one since the 1970’s so I was curious how fast you guys have gone with one. Mostly interested in stock stroke 318, 340, 360 engines, possible combos, and track or altitude you ran times at. Thanks. Oh and ported or stock.
 
Oh Boy...you might take a bit of heat for using that manifold, but i've used it and liked it.
 
I would question whether or not there is enough difference between that manifold and others of similar design to be worth the argument. I can see an argument of single plane vs. dual plane but not much between manifolds of the same design. They are usually pretty damn close to each other.
 
Torker 340 or Torker 2? I remember another member here who went faster with a Torker 340 than with an airgap, but his overall combination would have favored a single plane. Seems like he may have went from 11.9 to 11.30 in a four speed duster with 4.30 gears, but It wa a while back when he had posted. At the level where you need a full on single plane, the Weiand 7510 or 7545 "looks" like it would be the most efficient of the street oriented (exhaust crossover equipped) single plane intakes, but the Torker 2 looks pretty good, too.
 
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I had one on a 383 in a mild bracket car back in 93.
Heads were so, so. Torquer was ootb.
Went 11.72 @ 113. 4.30s, 9J

EDIT: forgot to mention.. that was at Bakersfield. Elevation - 500', conditions - long since forgotten :)
 
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The last one I took off was 85 or 86.

The biggest gains were down low. The Torker and the SD were about the same up top, but the bottom and middle was way better with the SD.

Had to drop the launch RPM from 3000ish all the way down to about 2200 to keep from blowing the tires off of it.

My brother was driving and it was hard to get through his head that LOWERING the RPM meant it was making more power at 3k with the SD than the Torker.

Once we got past that, the car was quicker.
 
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Garrett Ellison said:
Torker 340 or Torker 2? I remember another member here who went faster with a Torker 340 than with an airgap, but his overall combination would have favored a single plane. Seems like he may have went from 11.9 to 11.30 in a four speed duster with 4.30 gears, but It wa a while back when he had posted. At the level where you need a full on single plane, the Weiand 7510 or 7545 "looks" like it would be the the most efficient of the street oriented (exhaust crossover equipped) single plane intakes, but the Torker 2 looks pretty good, too.
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Here’s a quick picture of it the only one he sent me. This would be a stock 1973 (340) piston, rod, crank, engine with probably ported Speedmaster heads and ported intake. Probably limited to an early purple shaft cam for valve to piston clearance. Street car with an occasional trip to mile high drag strip in Denver so that hurts too. I would love to port a Victor340 for him but with the limitations listed above not sure it’s worth it till I build a Stroker engine for him.
 
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Here’s a quick picture of it the only one he sent me. This would be a stock 1973 (340) piston, rod, crank, engine with probably ported Speedmaster heads and ported intake. Probably limited to an early purple shaft cam for valve to piston clearance. Street car with an occasional trip to mile high drag strip in Denver so that hurts too. I would love to port a Victor340 for him but with the limitations listed above not sure it’s worth it till I build a Stroker engine for him.
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Yeah...idk if the ported Victor would be worth the effort.

Can you port on the Torker? That may be the best bang for your time and money.
 
yellow rose said:
Yeah...idk if the ported Victor would be worth the effort.

Can you port on the Torker? That may be the best bang for your time and money.
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Yes he’s coming home to Pa for a visit so I may have him put it in his luggage that way I could do so cutting and flow testing with it. Sorry for the long delay posting that. My neighbors sliding glass door came off the rails. Her husband passed away a few months ago so I get Johnny on the spot calls. Lol.
 
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Yes he’s coming home to Pa for a visit so I may have him put it in his luggage that way I could do so cutting and flow testing with it. Sorry for the long delay posting that. My neighbors sliding glass door came off the rails. Her husband passed away a few months ago so I get Johnny on the spot calls. Lol.
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That’s more important than what goes on here. I’m sure she is still a bit lost so soon after her husbands death.
 
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Here’s a quick picture of it the only one he sent me. This would be a stock 1973 (340) piston, rod, crank, engine with probably ported Speedmaster heads and ported intake. Probably limited to an early purple shaft cam for valve to piston clearance. Street car with an occasional trip to mile high drag strip in Denver so that hurts too. I would love to port a Victor340 for him but with the limitations listed above not sure it’s worth it till I build a Stroker engine for him.
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Ah yes, the good ole crappy Denver air, lol. I grew up in the mountains west of Denver (near Golden), moved out to Indiana in 2007. My old 360 ran ~13.8 NA in the horrid 9000' DA air....but would run 11.0 when sprayed. That same motor ran 12.5 NA out here in Indiana.
 
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I took some FaceTime pictures of his Torker intake today and I think with some work this will work out fine. My grinder awaits its arrival
 
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have fun grinding, it needs a bit.:lol:
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Intakes are like no brainer work to me. You mark it out and know what needs done and just crank up the stereo, get in the zone, and do it. Probably one of the few jobs in the shop that I may sip on an adult beverage while doing it.
 
I wonder if the lowend problem is because of turbulence messing up the AFR, in the low end, and if running an FITECH would fix this.
 
Maybe if your injectors intersected the intake flange and pointed directly into the intake port.
I myself wonder if that weird indentation in the bottom was a band aid to help deal with fuel pudding and distribution with the relatively shallow plenum.
The very similar but deeper TM-5 Tarantula that was supposed to have many hours of development time involved in it (I personally think it was actually about 4 hours of marketing time to make up enough lies to pass off a small block Chevy intake spider cast onto a small block Mopar base) did not have that weirdness in the plenum but it was also said to plow the mixture at anything into the floor past 7500 rpm.
 
I ran a Torker 340 (Gen 1) on my Duster...back before I started the current build. Everyone says it's not a good manifold down low, but I was running a 4 speed 3.91 and I had few issues other than low engine vacuum at idle. The Torker II is supposed to be a better deal on the street. With the plethora of really good manifolds out these days, and since it's already off, my advice would be to swap it out for something better.

EDIT: And I sure would not waste my time porting one.
 
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