Actual interest in Aluminum Upper Intake?
04-25-2011, 09:06 AM
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04-25-2011, 02:30 PM
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04-25-2011, 05:33 PM
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The ones we had were. They were also poorly detailed and rather unfinished by my preferences (which is why we are not currently selling them). Hopefully, Elliott can do a better job of it.
04-25-2011, 05:37 PM
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^ thats why i did not buy his last one is because it had no mounts for anything that have to stay, pretapped holes, and looked like it weighed more than the stock. I could never tell if it had the connection for the fuel line or a few other things.
04-26-2011, 11:18 PM
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fwiw. I did a lot of research to have a custom uim made and sent Hogans Racing both my upper and lower intake manifold. They quoted me $3,200 for both the upper and lower made out of aluminum sheet metal, and for just the uim they quoted $2,200.
This would not have been a direct plug and play with existing components (solenoids, etc.) because they were building in as large of a plenum as possible, larger runners and would customize it for my aftermarket billet aluminum 80mm throttle body.
Here's a photo of some of their manifolds that they make for rotaries:
This would not have been a direct plug and play with existing components (solenoids, etc.) because they were building in as large of a plenum as possible, larger runners and would customize it for my aftermarket billet aluminum 80mm throttle body.
Here's a photo of some of their manifolds that they make for rotaries:
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05-10-2011, 06:56 PM
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Generally true and I have stated the same previously myself, but in this case I can show you some cast manifolds that could be considered the equivalent of our UIM and they are in the range or less of what most people are saying here. If we were talking about the LIM it would be a different story, as are custom fabricated complete one-off manifold systems.
06-02-2011, 01:33 AM
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06-02-2011, 11:09 AM
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We are getting the ball rolling on having a prototype cast aluminum 6 port upper intake manifold made tomorrow. We are looking to make one with actual performance improvements, in addition to just " show " appeal. The biggest concern as usual in price point, what are you guys willing to pay for one, and what are you looking for in the actual piece? I am thinking 1/8" pipe female ports for SS -AN vacuum/boost lines for starters, a bigger plenum, nice radii everywhere, bigger runners etc...
06-03-2011, 01:01 PM
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