Re: MPI Manifold

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 25 1999 - 22:06:27 EDT


On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Bill Arthur wrote:

> Lord, is it worth all of that?

  Heh heh heh! He didn't even mention the grinding and cutting you
have to do to your A/C compressor and acessory bracket, new upper
radiator hose, re-locating the engine coolant sensor (he didn't have
to do any of that since he doesn't have A/C), or the new thermostat
and thermostat housing, new PCV vaccum hose, lets see, what am I
forgetting? :-)

   That's why I am planning on putting together a kit to truely
make this thing a bolt-on, as if you take the DIY route, there's
a lot of running around to do before you can get 'er up and running.

  As far as wether its worth it or not, IMHO, absolutely. =)
The manifold did take away some low end, (ok by me as I didn't mind
a little less low-end to help in the traction department) but once the
RPMs get up to about 3K or so, it pulls like nobody's business. My
ETs dropped from 14.8s and 14.9s to 14.5s. My best time so far is a
14.55@94.14, but I have run 14.55 on a run where I missed a shift, so
its got more in it.

   Although I don't know for sure since I don't have any baseline
dyno numbers, I suspect the intake was a major part of the reason
my torque curve is so nice and flat. (Graph available at:
stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu/dyno001.jpg">http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~stei0302/WWW/DAKOTA/ATTACHMENTS/stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu/dyno001.jpg)

                                              -Jon-

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