Hi all,

I am doing a single turbo on a tpi engine.. i'm wondering if i would see any benifit going with a less complicated setup like a tpis mini-ram intake or stealth ram. there are 6 gaskets between the runners, plenum and intake on a tpi setup, none on a mini ram and two on a stealth ram.

my l98 is basically stock, so it would be stock heads and cam to start out. I'm only going to run between 6-8lbs of boost to start, but i'm kind of questioning how much trouble i'm going to run into trying to make sure my tpi setup will maintain a good seal under boost. stealth is 550 new, i can score a used miniram setup for about 650 and i already have an edelbrock runner/intake combo that i have done some porting on. which would best fit my application?

thanks all

 

You won't see any problems with leaks. There are stock intake tpi turbo setups out there running 9's. A friend of mine has a 20 psi turbo tpi setup that works fantastic.

The only downside that comes to mind is the effort involved in getting to the injectors, which I get to do this week on mine.

 

Leaks are no problem. I've run 18lbs through mine without any issues. 20 inches of idle vacuum is, I believe like 10lbs of out sideair trying top get in. TPI & turbos rock! Mark