hi anyone know of any intakes that are front entry that use the stock tb...its just for looks really in a mkiv supra,as wanted something like the vvti intake,so i can run twin ai filters...i have seen the cowboy beebop one but that cazy money for some shiny intake,,,anyone else know of any...or any other bits like different ocker coves etc etc...
custom intakes for na 1uz...please help
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I was once curious as to the cost for one of those intakes, as they are "pretty", but they were untested and unproven. I believe JDM wanted approximately $2,400 for it...A might bit pricey, I thought, and I am not sure that even included the Infinity throttle body they were using. It also did not include polishing. So, I passed, and simply had my stock intake ported and scuffed by by machine shop (both the upper and lower). We'll see if it helps or hurts when I get my car on the dyno after Darin gets back from the Supra meet.
Ryan
We did quite a few over the few year period, including the manifold on Eric's personal car. We did later find out that several customers of Eric's never received their manifolds, for what reason I don't know. At that point it was out of our hands... and is one of many reasons we stopped doing business with him.
For what it is, it is too much money, you are correct.
There is a difference in 20 degrees between the VVTi and non-VVTi. An adapter could be done, but you'd be left with a less than desirable kink in the transition. Simplest, maybe. Best... that depends on what the user's definition may be.
Flow testing was done - results were posted on another forum. 31% improvement over stock with less than 1% variance across all runners. The stock manifold has a variance of around 4%.
We never charged anything close to $2400, as anyone who had one done outside of Eric or TTC can attest to. His mark-ups were rediculous.
There is alot more I won't get into, however I wanted to clear up some of the misinformation.
This is Eric posting under JDMFantasy's name, that he gave me. Casey, that is untrue. We stopped doing business with you because your intake manifolds had half a dozen cracks in them, and a wavy finish, and one outright didn't fit by a half an inch! On my end, if a customer sent funds for the manifold and for shipping then he got his manifold, full stop.
Quality costs, and your sub par manifolds reflect that. I'm sorry Casey, but I never had a problem with you until you came on here to spread things that are entirely untrue. Want to see my manifolds? Here you are. You guy simply can not reach this level, I know that first hand, because your manifolds failed every time I asked your for more quality.
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You might try contacting JDMFantasy here. At one time he was making those intakes for Mr. Bebop, but IIRC those intakes had neither a taper on the main headers, nor bellmouths on the IR's, so they may have some distribution issues.
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I have cut some flange plates and formed inlet like this inlet on Cobra engine..http://www.lextreme.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13380
Trying to keep inlet as long as possible to hopefully keep some low rpm torque, keep under bonnet / hood...
Trying to keep inlet as long as possible to hopefully keep some low rpm torque, keep under bonnet / hood...
any pics of anyone moding the standard intake to be front mounted as cheapest aftermartket one i have seen is cowboy bepops one ttc racing i think they are called and its 1500 dollars...which is way to much money in my opinion...thats more than my car and v8 swap...
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I am VERY surprised someone hasn't figured out how to get a VVTi intake on the early heads. That IMO is the best option. Seems like it would just need some thin adaptor plates to match the flange angle. That or machine the manifold to fit.
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We don't get too many VVT heads available down under..
Then when they are you may as well buy the fabricated manifold...
Then when they are you may as well buy the fabricated manifold...
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I just picked up a second early UZ manifold and will be cutting it up to make a short runner manifold in the next few weeks. I doubt it will flow as much as the vvti (larger runner ID) but it know for a fact that it will open up a lot of cfm. I really like the variable length design of the vvti but im after the top end gains, period.
If someone makes an adapter plate for these 2 manifolds, I would love to give it a try. CAD files please? hehe
If someone makes an adapter plate for these 2 manifolds, I would love to give it a try. CAD files please? hehe
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I was once curious as to the cost for one of those intakes, as they are "pretty", but they were untested and unproven. I believe JDM wanted approximately $2,400 for it...A might bit pricey, I thought, and I am not sure that even included the Infinity throttle body they were using. It also did not include polishing. So, I passed, and simply had my stock intake ported and scuffed by by machine shop (both the upper and lower). We'll see if it helps or hurts when I get my car on the dyno after Darin gets back from the Supra meet.
Ryan
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We did quite a few over the few year period, including the manifold on Eric's personal car. We did later find out that several customers of Eric's never received their manifolds, for what reason I don't know. At that point it was out of our hands... and is one of many reasons we stopped doing business with him.
For what it is, it is too much money, you are correct.
There is a difference in 20 degrees between the VVTi and non-VVTi. An adapter could be done, but you'd be left with a less than desirable kink in the transition. Simplest, maybe. Best... that depends on what the user's definition may be.
Flow testing was done - results were posted on another forum. 31% improvement over stock with less than 1% variance across all runners. The stock manifold has a variance of around 4%.
We never charged anything close to $2400, as anyone who had one done outside of Eric or TTC can attest to. His mark-ups were rediculous.
There is alot more I won't get into, however I wanted to clear up some of the misinformation.
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This is Eric posting under JDMFantasy's name, that he gave me. Casey, that is untrue. We stopped doing business with you because your intake manifolds had half a dozen cracks in them, and a wavy finish, and one outright didn't fit by a half an inch! On my end, if a customer sent funds for the manifold and for shipping then he got his manifold, full stop.
Quality costs, and your sub par manifolds reflect that. I'm sorry Casey, but I never had a problem with you until you came on here to spread things that are entirely untrue. Want to see my manifolds? Here you are. You guy simply can not reach this level, I know that first hand, because your manifolds failed every time I asked your for more quality.
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Hi All
There is a place who did a conversion on a Ford Essex manifold for me a bit back, I have spoken to them and I am going to drop them off a lower manifold for the 1UZ-FE to look at, they make a lot of manifolds for bike throttle bodies.
Here is a link to some of the work they do
http://www.boggbros.co.uk/gallery5.html
Alan
There is a place who did a conversion on a Ford Essex manifold for me a bit back, I have spoken to them and I am going to drop them off a lower manifold for the 1UZ-FE to look at, they make a lot of manifolds for bike throttle bodies.
Here is a link to some of the work they do
http://www.boggbros.co.uk/gallery5.html
Alan
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