vortec intakes

grumpyvette

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the common vortec heads most guys use are designed for the 1500rpm-5500rpm power band and have ports designed to match that flow rate on a 350cid displacement engine, if you've upgraded the displacement to 383 cid then you've reduced the rpm band to about the 1500rpm-5100rpm band making the use of the single plane intakes rather useless as the ports become a restriction even if the intakes not, by about 5500rpm, on the stock small port production vortec heads.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-7516/
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http://www.holley.com/8502.asp
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its almost always a better idea to leave a bit of room to grow in the parts selected, theres no question in my mind that for your application one of these intakes are a decent choice, personally.

now there are large port vortec heads and thats a totally different ball game.
read these
viewtopic.php?f=55&t=2857&p=7492&hilit=206cc+vortec#p7492

viewtopic.php?f=55&t=858

viewtopic.php?f=52&t=322
 
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