[Cliff R]

"My appoligies for the confustion, I had it on my mind the Hurricane was the "copy" of the Performer RPM intake. Got it confused with the Crosswind."

Steve, I have episodes of CRS myself, daily!

A few years ago I tested the Tomahawk intake, which was newly released at that time.

We did the testing at Norwalk in hot/humid weather for a "Shootout". It is a very good intake, and I couldn't detect any real loss of low end power or driveability running it around the pits and a quick trip down the County roads outside the track. It actually "felt" much stronger than the iron intake it replaced at full throttle, really pulling hard in the upper mid-range and top end.

The track results weren't quite as good as I expected, but it ran almost 2mph faster than the iron intake. It gave up nearly a tenth is 60' times, and still ran a couple hundreths slower for ET.

This was with a 1" spacer, it didn't like the q-jet without the spacer.

This brings up an important point with these intakes. The T-II for example really responds well to at least a 1" spacer. We've used them for dyno testing numerous times, and it can rival the Victor intake on engines to at least 600hp. The Tomahawk would be equally as good, being of similiar design with slightly larger runners.

Some set-ups lack the room for spacers, so keep this in mind when selecting intake manifolds. The RPM is already almost 1" taller than the T-II or stock intakes, and requires some "cobbling" to get them to work with factory Shaker assemblies.

The taller intakes also raise up the throttle linkage, and move fuel lines higher as well.

I've also noticed some quality control issues with the Edelbrock intakes in recent years, poor port to gasket alignment, having to remove material to get them to sit on the heads, etc. One would think as long as some of these intakes have been in production, they would be getting better, not worse?......Cliff