camarors8992

i was looking through the jegs catalog and i saw a really nice air scoop with red butterflies and ive always wanted one on my car and i was wondering do they make a intake manifold to put on a 3.1 and then i could put a carb on it and then the air scoop

AM91Camaro_RS

edelbrock makes a carb manifold.

camarors8992

i went to edelbrocks website and looked at it...will this bolt right up to the 3.1 and will it decrease or increase horsepower

camarors8992

also what would be nesesary to convert it and would the car then be considerd carb'd or fuel injected and should i see a horse power increase and along with this i want to change the cam and lifters and put an exuast on it and a perfromance distributer and new perf. wires and plugs...What are some other upgrades that will speed this car up a little

FbodTrek

Interesting....
First off, will you see a gain : Probably. This setup was designed as an upgrade for 2.8L 2bbl V6 cars (trucks actually). With the right Cam, I was told the 390 cfm 4bbl and manifold could boost power close to 50 horses. If you know someone who has GOOD exprience tuning carbs and picking cams to match them (for your particular displacement), I say go for it. Get a big enough cam, port the heads, machine the valve seat on the intake side and add that. I REALLY want someone to purchase that setup. Personally, I'm tired of all the BS that comes with fuel injection, too many things to go wrong once you start modding. Go all out chief, let us know if you need anymore help.

camarors8992

but couldnt i just buy the intake manifold and the carb and the air scoop that i want or do i have to completly swap it over....im just wonder but the throttle body in the jegs catalog for the LS1 looks like it would work with the 3.1

AM91Camaro_RS

yes you could just buy the stuff, including the scoop...but without swapping it, you won't have it on your car. that type of scoop doesn't work too well with FI motors...its hard to make it functional. somebody on here is trying to adapt a LS1 TB to a v6 but i don't see the point in doing that, escpecially on a stock motor. the new TB i'm making isn't going to be as big as an LS1 TB and i think it should be big enough for even my setup. anything over about 60mm on one of these motors, stock, i think is way too big. LS1 TBs, stock, are 75 mm i believe, the one i'm making will be about 65 or 66 probably. we'll see when i get all of the honing done on it.

vsixtoy

I have to warn you, You are planning to spend several hundred dollars on something that I think you are going to be very disappointed in the gains, if any at all. The MPFI puts out much higher HP#'s(Camaros & Firebirds) than the same motor on carbed engines (S10s)- aprox 15hp more on FI.

AM91Camaro_RS

did the s-10s have a different cam?

camarors8992

i dont understand why it wont work good with fuel injection...im only changing the parts that the air is flowing throw its still getiing air flow

camarors8992

but they dont make performance parts for the 3.1 intake like performance throttle bodies and high plow plenum like they do for 5.7 and carb'd motors