the right intake

rumblefish360 said
HEY WAIT!

2.92 gears and a cam that kicks in at around 2500 or so!?!?!?

YOU DO NOT NEED A VICTOR!!!! No way no how1 The gears are to dead and the intake is a serious hi RPM single plenum. That intake doesn't think of anything below 3500.

What exact cam do you have?
Has any porting been done to the head?

The RPM is a freakin excellent street intake. It gives nothing up to the single plane intakes in it's RPM range and will handle large cams.

That builder is nuts!!!!!!!!!!

fishy68 said
My thoughts exactly. What kind of a engine builder recommends a strip designed intake that doesn't come on until 3500 rpm for use on a street car with 2.92 gears???? You'll be going 35-40 before it ever hits the power band.

I have 2 suggestions.

1. Stay with the RPM intake.

2. Find a new engine builder.

3/8 pushrods, a victor on a heavy car, 2. rear gears, 2500+ cam sounds like a series of mismatch parts to me.

The RPM is a good manifold and would run circles around a Victor in your case, IMHO. When you build something, you need to keep intended use in mind. Matching the comp0nents to a RPM range is one way to do it. You have some recommendations from this guy that are all over the map. To take it to an extreme, would you put a tunnel ram with 2 dominators on a motorhome towing a 30ft trailer? Of course not. It's not appropriate for the intended usage. Same thing going on here.

Might put a good 100 shot of nitrous on it to get to the power band when down low. That's going to be a tough car to drive if a 4 speed. It will lug all over the place at low rpm's.

Sounds like a good build for a Comp XE262H or 268H or similar, performer RPM and a smalllish AFB style carb. You need torque.

I hope for the best on this build.