i am getting ready to do a cam/intake swap. I am going with a LT1 cam and im gonna use a edelbrock intake, but i dont know which one to buy, which one will be the best for my setup?, oh and its a lo3 305 TBI

 

Well you have about as many options as you do for cams. Do you want to retain egr? Are you running the stock or aftermarket hood? Are you willing to buy an adapter plate? Do you want a literal direct bolt on? A quick search should give you tons of ideas.

 

i tried a search but didnt really have any luck. yes i am looking for a direct bolt on, will buy an adapter plate but is there anyway around that? And about the EGR stuff, this is all new to me, what exactly is the EGR and do i really need it? If not then i will toss it. Thanks

 

EGR is one of those good things. The only way to get rid of it is to pregram it out of your chip. You will need to get into chip tuning if you want your new combo to actually increase the power of your car. If not it will run about the same or maybe even slower. The edelbrock performer TBI is about the only true bolt on. Nothing needs to be fabed up and everything off of your stock intake hooks righ up to it. Its flaw is that it comes with the stock size bores and will not allow you to upgrade to a larger TBI unit down the road. I have remedied that situation and bored mine out. Your best bet is to get a carb intake with EGR and get an adapter plate that allows you to bolt your TBI unit to it. I would keep trying different words in your search. Trsut me, there is more than enough info on this to help you in your choice. Search in the TBI forum under "best intake" or "adapter plate" or "best intake for me" etc etc...

 

I just bought the edelbrock tbi intake last night. I think it's a great intake for our cars. It's got egr, is a direct bolt on, has the same plenum depth as the rpm manifolds, the bores are centered, and is basically perfect in every way if you are using the stock 1 11/16 throttle body. The only downside, as shifty stated, is that if your combo needs the bigger 2 inch tbi then you will have to bore it out, but that is a pretty minor thing IMO.

 

Yup 25th is right. Once you actually bore it out you really open up a whole new potential for it. It is a good intake but has the little restriction up top. The hardest part was getting it on plane to bore it with the mill. After that the machine work was easy.

Forgot to mention that it is a great intake for novice intake installers. You literally have to modify nothing. The only thing I can think of is bending the fuel lines a bit.