Thought my TBI brothers would like to hear about this. Guy in Michigan made an intake and I guess they tested it on a TBI (truck) and it gave them a sh*t load of horsepower on the dyno and they want to test it on more vehicles. Here is a link. I am thinking about doing it.

New Intake Design

 

taht is definately an intresting opportunity. i would love to try a dual cold air set up on my car once it is back together. hmmm, 2 tb's and 2 cold air intakes, makes sense to me

later
tim

 

It's a carb bonnet made from plastic and being sold for twice that of a standard aluminum bonnet.....

 

Thank *** Mr. KnowItAll came on here!

 

Well isn't it? I seriously can't see anything special about it from the pictures on the website other than it looks to be round and made of plastic. So I guess the plastic is responsible for making those gains. It's a good design don't get me wrong but youch, the price. I don't know if it's plastic or not so what I said was only assumption.

 

But its free to test cars.

 

What in the blue monkey **** Man that thing cost's a bunch for such a little thing

 

The orig poster (on the link above) said it's patented. Hummmm.... I wonder how they can patent something that's no different than the plastic elbow used on the Caddy injectionless TBs, and on TBIs, from the late 80s fwd cars. And why not post the patent number --- once the patent issues (with a number), anyone can read it.

FWIW, you can't (or shouldn't) patent something that's already in the public domain, and offers no improvement other than those obvious in the state of the art. Actually, you can get a frivolous patent like that if the assistant examiner doesn't do his/her homework, or if the attorney helping to draft the patent makes the claims waaay too specific (making it a patent with no teeth).

Anyone interested in one of these things ought to first look at the Caddy (Cadillac) plastic elbow, as previously discussed on this TBI forum (do a search), before they spend any money. - Ken, familiar enough with the Caddy intake elbow and with the USPTO

 

Maybe u should make that post over at CamaroZ28.com and tell them that for urself.

 

since this has already made itself out to be a sroe topic, i am gonna close it.

later
tim