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Billet Intake Manifolds

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January 01, 2023, 06:25 AM
Cashflow
Billet Intake Manifolds
I don’t like to say never but pretty sure I’m never going back to Noble. Oklahoma in general is my bad luck state, I drive across the border into Oklahoma and sh—t starts falling off the trailer.


Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right. Here I am.......
January 13, 2023, 12:36 PM
Kole Pritchett
So 1399 out of a 655 9*? I’ve seen SR20 headed engines make within 15hp of that
January 13, 2023, 01:52 PM
1320racer
Dynos are only good for giving young men and the easily impressed erections! The time slip and scales tells the truth.
January 13, 2023, 03:30 PM
SlyFox
Billet intakes? Does the air & fuel mixture know what the runners are made of? Looks like another place to spend $$$ needlessly.


Mike
January 13, 2023, 03:34 PM
SlyFox
And as far as weight savings, I'm pretty sure the OEM's are currently making intakes out of plastics.


Mike
January 13, 2023, 03:49 PM
wideopen231
Looks more like makes your **** feel bigger piece than anything else.




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January 13, 2023, 04:32 PM
Kole Pritchett
quote:
Originally posted by 1320racer:
Dynos are only good for giving young men and the easily impressed erections! The time slip and scales tells the truth.


Def won’t disagree with this. I know the 588 sr20 has been 4.50 at 2700lbs on motors. So it is a stout piece. Looking forward to seeing what they are doing on this 615 dr9 head engine. Little shop but pretty good place up here.
January 13, 2023, 04:36 PM
Big Steve
quote:
Originally posted by 1320racer:
Dynos are only good for giving young men and the easily impressed erections! The time slip and scales tells the truth.

I was at Sunset Performance Engines the other day for the first time, Joe Jolly gave me the full tour. I'm no young man but I did feel a little engorged walking thru he shop, very impressive!!
January 14, 2023, 09:24 AM
1320racer
Laughing very hard

and his dyno is known to be very happy
January 14, 2023, 11:28 AM
Al Alguire
We run with a couple SR20 engines in NMCA NA10.5. One is a 615" engine thats been low low 7.60's and ben over 180 in a 3300lb Firebird on a 29.5x10.5 tire..Engine was built by Uratchko. there is no one with a 9 degree head in the class.


"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
January 14, 2023, 11:29 AM
Alaskaracer
quote:
Originally posted by Al Alguire:
We run with a couple SR20 engines in NMCA NA10.5. One is a 615" engine thats been low low 7.60's and ben over 180 in a 3300lb Firebird on a 29.5x10.5 tire..Engine was built by Uratchko. there is no one with a 9 degree head in the class.


Chris builds some bad A** Sh**..hell of a builder...


Mark Goulette
Owner/Driver of the Livin' The Dream Racing dragster
www.livinthedreamracing.com
"Speed kills but it's better than going slow!"
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January 14, 2023, 11:37 AM
1320racer
Al, you go fast guys are never honest. Just by the fact that you call this an sr20 headed engine, presenting it as if it’s just another of the many 20 degree 615s is disingenuous at best. The only truth there is the heads are SR but came directly from slick rick and it is 600+ cubic inches other than that, this engine couldn’t be any more different than a sr20 headed 615 that bracket racers and class racers would have built by anyone of the biggest names in sportsman engine building.
January 14, 2023, 12:25 PM
Mike Frizie
quote:
Originally posted by Kole Pritchett:
quote:
Originally posted by 1320racer:
Dynos are only good for giving young men and the easily impressed erections! The time slip and scales tells the truth.


Def won’t disagree with this. I know the 588 sr20 has been 4.50 at 2700lbs on motors. So it is a stout piece. Looking forward to seeing what they are doing on this 615 dr9 head engine. Little shop but pretty good place up here.


Even if this was an all Coke Can motor I call BS. I'd really like to know what could be so different than my steel 598 with sr20's! Eek


Michael Frizie
ET 2471
January 14, 2023, 03:19 PM
DragRacerSBC
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Frizie:
quote:
Originally posted by Kole Pritchett:
quote:
Originally posted by 1320racer:
Dynos are only good for giving young men and the easily impressed erections! The time slip and scales tells the truth.


Def won’t disagree with this. I know the 588 sr20 has been 4.50 at 2700lbs on motors. So it is a stout piece. Looking forward to seeing what they are doing on this 615 dr9 head engine. Little shop but pretty good place up here.


Even if this was an all Coke Can motor I call BS. I'd really like to know what could be so different than my steel 598 with sr20's! Eek


Your Bracket 598 SR20 probably doesn’t have 16:1+, 1.050” lift cam, 2.45 or larger custom TItanium intake valve, .6mm ring package, etc. The heads and intake on the 588 also have custom ports in them that likely flow another 50-60 cfm than yours. Then the sum of all that is peak power at 8800-9000 RPM and 9400-9500 shift points.

Those are the kind of differences. Different tools for different jobs.

Jason G.


'71 Chevelle
3370 lbs w/ SBC
5.93 @ 116.7 MPH - N/A
January 14, 2023, 04:16 PM
1320racer
^^^NOT a bracket car
January 14, 2023, 04:28 PM
Big Steve
quote:
Originally posted by 1320racer:
Laughing very hard

and his dyno is known to be very happy


He has 2, a Super flow he bought from Mike Edwards brand new and a older one that he uses for all the supercharged stuff.
Regardless he has a really nice shop
January 15, 2023, 10:38 AM
BG7X77
Its a bracket car if it's raced at a bracket race.


BG
January 15, 2023, 10:43 AM
1320racer
It is not!
January 15, 2023, 12:02 PM
Al Alguire
Not trying to show anything other than the POTENTIAL for that 20 degree cylinder head. And there are plenty of them out there that run really well and over 180 in S/C. Also to point out the few who have tried the 9 degree in the NA world have moved on.


"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
January 15, 2023, 12:14 PM
1320racer
I know, we’ve been 189 in S/C.

That said, the engine you speak of is more than double the price of the typical 20 degree 615 bracket and or throttle stop engine.

Many here don’t have a clue to what these engines cost to build for class specific heads up racing.

Over a decade ago, the front runners in the former TPSA running 565s, with heads that were the foundation to what we know today as SR20 heads, were spending upwards of $80k to build these engines!