Intake from Joe came yesterday. Nice lookin' piece. 385cfm, which I assume is an average flow as Joe usually balances the runners.
Even though the intake flows more, it could totally be a wash as the engine may not want that runner length. You never really know for sure until you try and I haven't had much luck with software determining the optimal runner lengths. Even if I lose a few ponies, I think I'll keep it as the intake just demands attention.
Got it all swapped this morning. Took all of 15 minutes and I remembered how much quicker it is to change an intake on a small block vs an FE....LOL
I went ahead and swapped it because I shot myself in the foot when I was at the dyno last time. I was using a borrowed carburetor and I don't have access to that carburetor anymore. Instead of going down, getting a baseline with a new carb, and then pulling the VJ to find out that the intake needs cut would have been a slight kick in the pants. I'm pretty confident that the new carb has the same metering blocks, baseplate, etc., so it should be pretty close.....crossing my fingers.....
Any guesses as to what it will do?
BTW, the pictures show the engine with a 2" Super Sucker. I'm almost 100% sure it won't want the 2" carb spacer, but I had to slap it together just to see how mean it looks.