Anyone tried one of the Weiand Street Warrior intake manifolds? Whats your opinion on it? I'd like to get a new intake for my 350, as I'm currently stuck with my stock L69 intake (cracked the one I was going to put on, and my RPM was sold before that).

The Qjet thats on it (from an early '70s 396 car, not sure what car exactly) actually seems to work very well with my 350, so I'd like to use a spreadbore type intake manifold, but one that I could also swap on my square bore Holley if I change my mind on the carb.

The only decent spreadbore intakes I know of are the Performer, the 'RPM Qjet', and this Weiand Street Warrior sounds like a good on. What do you guys think? This is my combo -

- 350ci
- XE274 cam
- Comp ProMag 1.52
- World 200cc/64cc heads (10:1 CR)
- Hedman shorties
- MSD vac advance dissy, coil, and box
- Super T10 4-speed

 

I haven't tried one yet because they won't tell how tall the carb pad is. So it might not fit under our hoods. I'm not gonna be the one to risk that much $ to find out. I expect it to be equal to either the Performer EPS or the RPM AirGap.

 

It actually does say on Holley's site, just takes some hunting to find it... it says 3.50" front, 4.50" rear, so its pretty similar in height to the Performer and EPS. About 3/4" shorter than the RPM.

 

I believe it's a new design (not a re-name of an older design) and is Weiand's direct competitor to the Performer EPS. The EPS isn't available with a spreadbore carb pad, though.

 

Thanks for the info, guys. I'm not currently in the market, but I hafta wonder why Edelbrock didn't put their universal carb pad on the EPS, and I'm glad to hear Weiand resolved this in their own way. I really like the little warrior drawing in the ads in the magazines. That plus a voodoo sticker would have me ready to battle the NOPI kids :-)

 

It does look to me like a new intake design from Holley, which is why I was asking if anyone had tried it yet.

It didn't appear to be a relabelled intake of an older design, like Holley is notorious for doing. I know the 300-36 Holley manifold I have sitting on my desk has gone through about 3 or 4 name changes over the years, with little or no practical changes.

 

Yeah, I always scratched my head why they didn't offer a spreadbore/universal carb pad on the Performer EPS. Would seem to be a natural fit.

The other head-scratcher is that the Weiand Street Warrior intakes aren't available for Vortec style heads! I mean, they threw money into making one for the ho-hum 87-up bolt pattern heads but not for the wildly popular Vortecs?!?