The July edition of Popular Hot Rodding has a nice artical about it. It's the first aftermarket composite manifold to be offered. It has design work from Nascar wizards like Keith Wilson and offers "nitrous blow out panels" and "Witness Grooves" for custom port matching. It has dyno proven gains of 33 hp over an LS1 intake with very little (3ft-lbs) of torque loss down low and 28 ft-lbs gain up top. Looks pretty nice..the only thing I can't tell is...the mule was a GMPP 320hp Fbody crate LS1, but I don't know if it was an LS1 intake or an LS6 intake? LSX intake manifold
[ 01. June 2004, 01:33 AM: Message edited by: SSHEETS ]
Posted by SSHEETS (Member # 1989) on :
Oh yeah, the LS1 was mildy modded with Xtreme Comp Cam's XR281HR 228 intake duration and 230 exhaust with an LSA of 112 degrees and .571/.573 @.050 lift. It also was equipped with Hooker headers.
Posted by Hawkeye (Member # 88) on :
I've ordered one, supposed to arrive Thursday.
I'll let you know my impressions. Posted by el ess1 (Member # 1544) on :
Hadn't seen a price on those anywhere in the magazines that's been featuring this thing, and even in the magazine ads. What's the tab on this thing?
Posted by SSHEETS (Member # 1989) on :
Code: LSXmanifold Price:$993.75
[ 01. June 2004, 10:39 AM: Message edited by: SSHEETS ]
Posted by Elie Garfinkel (Member # 1635) on :
The experience with these, is that the more heavily-modded cars derive the most benefit from this piece. Cars that are stock (or close to stock) don't usually see more than 8-10 RWHP. There doesn't seem to be a significant advantage in changing to the LSX intake over an LS6 manifold in a close-to-stock '98-'00 LS1 (with the original LS1 intake manifold).
Best regardSS,
Elie
Posted by mattp (Member # 2140) on :
1000 dollars?!?!?!
wow
Posted by Brian's 01 SS (Member # 1499) on :
I have read toooooo many complaints over at LS1Tech.com to pay a grand, or $800 bucks for something that was so pourly engineered. There is no way to keep the map sensor in at the back of the intake, leaking issues, and more that can be found over at Tech. I will wait til the bugs are worked out!
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