TPI Long Tube Runner Project

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Oct 9, 2014 | 05:14 AM

#551

thebandit50187

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From: Lincoln, Illinois

Car: 92 Trans Am, 87 Formula

Engine: 305 soon to be TBI, 91 305 TPI swap

Transmission: 700R4

Axle/Gears: 10 bolt

Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

i would love a set of those runners for my ZZ3 TPI project

Feb 7, 2018 | 04:46 PM

#552

ASE doc

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From: Aurora, OR

Car: 87 IROC Z28

Engine: 355 cid TPI

Transmission: Custom Built 700R4 w/3,500 stall

Axle/Gears: QP fab 9" 3.70 Truetrac

Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

bump

Aug 7, 2020 | 04:35 AM

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Bill Chase

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Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

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Originally Posted by 1989GTATransAm

I am making good progress on the runners. I have finished the upper set of runners on one half. I went ahead and took a picture for comparison with a stock set of runners so one can see the difference in size. This gives you an idea of the increase in cross sectional area.

Awesome work, I can't help but wonder why you did not consider a super ram style plenum and revised runner's with this base setup at the time you built it. Would be interesting to see how it performed. Have you revisited this project, or passed it on to someone that continued to develop it?
AGAIN, AWESOME WORK!

Aug 7, 2020 | 07:30 AM

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VincentZ28

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From: San Antonio TX

Car: 1990 G92 IROC Z Miniram

Engine: 388cu 6.4 Liters

Transmission: G-Force T5

Axle/Gears: 3.73 Gears

Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

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He doesn’t have the car anymore. The best it ran is in his sig. He went on to something else.

Aug 9, 2020 | 07:41 AM

#555

Bill Chase

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Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

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He doesn’t have the car anymore. The best it ran is in his sig. He went on to something else.

yeah I figured, That is why I asked if he maybe passed it on to someone else that continued to develop it. is He still a member here?

Aug 11, 2020 | 08:59 AM

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ploegi

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From: Adrian, Mi, USA

Car: 1988 Pontiac Firebird Formula

Engine: 5.7 TPI

Transmission: 700R4

Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

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Originally Posted by Bill Chase

yeah I figured, That is why I asked if he maybe passed it on to someone else that continued to develop it. is He still a member here?

He has been here as recently as the 7th of this month.

Nov 26, 2020 | 08:57 AM

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Bill Chase

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Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

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Originally Posted by 1989GTATransAm

Hopefully we will have some results in the next 60 days. I am waiting for Dyno Don to have some room in his shop. Then a club dyno day will be set up.

if you should cross paths with this intake again and its owner wishes to sell it. I would quite seriously buy it. out of curiosity, how many man hours and material investement do you think you had in this thing? 80,120 hours of design, testing, and fabricating plus materials?

Nov 26, 2020 | 02:56 PM

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1989GTATransAm

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From: Cypress, California

Car: 1989 GTA

Engine: 369 TPI

Transmission: 4L60E

Axle/Gears: 3.70 Nine Bolt

Re: TPI Long Tube Runner Project

I really do not know how much time was invested. I am lucky that I have a friend with a machine shop and another acquaintance who is a very good welder. So the costs were a fraction of what they would have been. That is what made this project feasible. I do not know where the intake is today.