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Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

Typical Ford Intake, Mike. Did not take people long to figure out the very short center runners were not happy on the old Ford stuff. Having the runners on 2 levels is not an issue either.

Tom Vaught

Very true,

In fact when Bernie Knudsen threw the Tunnel Port project guys under the bus, the Pontiac Racing guys hired them! So we are just picking up from all that great work and millions of dollars the Ford Racing team did and never got to finish. From what I hear Ford was completely committed to the Tunnel Port design. However, Bernie was the GM of Chevrolet Motor division and hired by Ford and all the BBC engineering team was brought over, thus the splayed valve 429 engine was born.

On the longer runner intakes we extend the plenum front and back. Therefore looking on the outside, it looks like the runner are much longer, however the plenum extensions provide for a very close intake runner length and a bigger plenum. I will try to get a picture.

Lynn