fastest naturally aspirated tpi??
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Car: 1991 Z-28
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fastest naturally aspirated tpi??
since I am finishing up my 383 TPI, I'm now curious..... what is the fastest naturally aspirated f-body tpi car you've seen or read about? no stealth ram, etc.... just tpi?
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Car: 1986 Corvette, 1985 Z28
Engine: 383 Vortec HSR, 350 Vortec TPI
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Re: fastest naturally aspirated tpi??
I will tell you from my research that if you're keeping the stock intake, runners, etc your power with a 383 is going to be choked. That many cubes breathes a LOT, and the factory intake would have a hard time keeping up. I'm assuming if you spent the dime on a 383 that you've already ditched the factory exhaust manifolds - after that the next weakest link is the intake IMO.
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Re: fastest naturally aspirated tpi??
I bought Arizona speed and marine runners, edelbrock base and then ported the plenum and base. It looks like a huge difference; I just stared getting curious on what the fastest factory style TPI was; wondering if I might get close. Based on what Orr said; No, I won't be close. Didn't think I would be, but I wasn't sure if a stock style TPI had ever gotten out of the 12's.
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Re: fastest naturally aspirated tpi??
There are heavily modified TPI plenums and runners/ intake that make much more power than stock - but even that involves siamesing the runners or switching them to higher flowing ones altogether. When you get to that point, why not just let different intakes into the game to play? It's all technically tuned "port" injection.
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Re: fastest naturally aspirated tpi??
What holds tpi back is the cross section of runners and bases available. Runners are too small in diameter and base head port opening is to small.
You wanna go fast you need rpm. Long runner can tune for high rpm but the area needs to be large to flow. Like short straw vs long straw. Try sucking thru them of same diameter. The shorter one has less resistance to flow and easier to pass flow. Longer ones need to be larger diameter
Base port needs to be atleast 1205 gasket size at the opening then taper larger to the runner connection. Seems like aftermarket bases can get close to that. For really hot setups using 1206 gasket head ports, you have to weld up the tpi bases to allow porting to that size. Thats more difficult and expensive
You wanna go fast you need rpm. Long runner can tune for high rpm but the area needs to be large to flow. Like short straw vs long straw. Try sucking thru them of same diameter. The shorter one has less resistance to flow and easier to pass flow. Longer ones need to be larger diameter
Base port needs to be atleast 1205 gasket size at the opening then taper larger to the runner connection. Seems like aftermarket bases can get close to that. For really hot setups using 1206 gasket head ports, you have to weld up the tpi bases to allow porting to that size. Thats more difficult and expensive
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