I know I'm gonna probably get mixed answers but I'm starting my planning/saving for my 383 swap and I would like some opinions on the intake setup, should I keep and soup up the tbi or swap over to some other intake? I dont plan on going all out race car, just mild street/strip

 

I plan on getting a blueprint engines 383 crate next year and im plannin on goin carb to start off

 

Well this is my first car with fuel injection so i want to try and keep it fuel injected. I was looking at the blueprint 383 with the tbi intake on it already, but I didnt know if i should keep it tbi or not

 

If you are building a 383... The TBI intake would need max porting. And still lack flow
If I were you I would purchase a performance intake like a weiand stealth.
And look at patriot heads or similar..drop 50#'s and have a respectful ride

 

I was told that intake setup wouldn't clear the hood

 

I'm long out of the carb setups... I thought with a low profile cleaner the setup will clear

 

I dont personally know if it will clear or not thats just what I was told

 

Have your 383 built for strong low/midrange torque, get an edelbrock performer rpm intake & adaptor, I'd look into getting some vortec heads as they have good budget/performance ratio. It'll be easier to get it to run good if you use a mild cam. I'd get a complete 350 vortec engine from the junk yard, use that to build your engine. It'll come w/ the good heads & roller cam.

 

Does everything match up pretty good with the carb'd intake (sensors etc)

 

Sure, read the stickies.

 

Ahh good point, so is there any specific tb yall would recommend? Or should I just use a 350 or 454?

 

Stick with the TB you have (do the common mods), find a carb manifold you like & use a quality adapter to mount the TB.

The biggest mistake, & first sign of induction ignorance, is the use of a larger than necessary device. If you are going to run your 383 over 7k rpm I suggest a 46mm TB from these guys,

http://www.rvmorsemachine.com/index.html

Edit: It would be smart if you first make your ECM tunable & learn to tune on your existing engine.

http://www.dynamicefi.com/EBL_Flash.php

 

Ok I didn't know if I could use my stock tb, that makes me feel better

 

On the carb'd intakes does it matter if its single or dual plane with the tb?

 

If its a 383, I'd go w/ a dual plane with the center cut down alittle. Or add a carb spacer if theres room.

 

I was readin the other day that for a carb on a dual plane you wana go a lil bit bigger in the cfm as compared to what you'd use on a single plane. I assume it would be the same for tbi

 

That information is incorrect, savvy guys know that a dual plane only hides the gross ignorance of over-doing the fuel metering device better.

 

If your going to use a single plane there is only one I'd suggest,

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-2901/

 

thanks for clearin that up for me, i dont mean to put out wrong information

 

Haha thats the intake I was looking at, which drew up my question