Having trouble deciding which intake manifold to ues for my camaro. I have an edelbrock Performer and a Weiand Xcelerator. This primarily a strip car, so drive ability is not an issue. The car has a 400 small block, With an edelbrock performer cam, Rather small 1.84"/1.50" valves (for a 400) 58cc heads and they are pocket ported. I will be using a edelbrock 1405 carb. I plan to run the nitrous cheater set up I just aquired and they recomend a single plane, but i only plan on using the nitrous for grudge matches. so my delima is do I use the single plane (x celerator) or would the performer make more power, and i could just take it easy on the Nitrous. I plan to dyno test it when I finish it, however i will only have time to test one set up before racing season starts. So what do you folks think????

 

I'd always heard to go single plane if spraying, and since this is primarily a strip car I would think go with the single plane as the car will live in the higher RPM range as well. However, out of curiosity I did some searching around and found an article on spraying a dual plane vs single and the differences seem to be negligible:
http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/e...ing/index.html

 

Very good information thank you

 

with the heads and cam you are running, Id stick with the performer intake.

 

Right, stick with the Performer... with those other things, what intake you run won't really matter; it's not the bottleneck, regardless. All you can do is make it worse by putting too big of one on it, which the Xcelerator DEFINITELY would be. A total mismatch.

 

thanks guys, i figured that would be the way to go, just wanted to get some opinions

 

Heads $325 + shipping