thoughts on the edelbrock sp2p manifold

it's about the looks over performance....not much kick to the 318...i was told the performer doesn't pull enough vacuum. if i bumped up the cam to a stock 340 cam and ran some 360 heads that flow more i could go with the performer and may do so in the future.....but this old vintage intake is a high velocity intake with really small runners (smaller than stock) but moves the air a lot faster....and .......it's just different...as is a dual 2 1973 carters (with metering rods) on a muscle car. i will go with a progressive set up....trying to now figure out the idle circuit....in concept, if i used all 4 idle screws, i question.....will this act like a holley 4 corner idle set up. or i can shut the back one off and just use the front primary carb for the idle. dont know what to do for the squirters. thought about removing the accelerator pump to the back carb and just use jets back there. going to run 2 carter bbd's or rochester 2g's. the carters would be harder to tune with the metering rods but would run better and have a smoother fuel curve. i hate to but i will have to use a carb spacer. vintage speed sells an adapter for a 4 to 2x2 set up for $85. Then the matter is just figuring out a custom linkage and trying to get it to work

if anyone can find a 318 street master let me know.....i think it's a better intake. the weiand 3000 is as well so that is an option