[AC445]

Hello.I thought original Nash manifolds were magnesium and difficult to weld ?

[Tom Vaught]

This is a NASH repop from the old WARRIOR intake guys. Dale and Ray Hunt (The Hunt Brothers).
But you are correct a Magnesium NASH intake is very hard to do anything with.
"Nash Intake" is the really cool design that worked well on smaller engines.

Tom V.

[Dragncar]

I run a Warrior with good results. 10.93, 9.3 CR pump gas 455, heavy 69 GTO. 850 DP.
The first nash intake was the first performance single plane intake on any kind. The first one was made of fiberglass and designed from the start to add spacers as you needed them.
Mine is a 4150 I converted to 4500 myself. Made a spacer out of 2 pieces of 1/2" aluminum plate to convert it back to 4150. Then put a 4 hole Super sucker on top of that. Works the best for me by far. Put a 2" Super Sucker on top of the adapter and it slowed the car down.
I did back to back to back to back drag strip tests on my 455. Warrior, best, then Victor, RPM, T2 then T1.
You can do the drop the plenum deal, not easy. Gabby told me he did them for Wilson and he could do mine.
But 10.93 out of a iron head pump gas TRW 455 is pretty good.
People tell me all the time how mean looking the intake is.

[Tom Vaught]

PM to Dragncar

Tom V.

[68azbird]

Same here pump gas 462, with 2 inch spacer it works mint. Drive it everywhere.

[dragracerx2813]

Originally Posted by 68azbird

Same here pump gas 462, with 2 inch spacer it works mint. Drive it everywhere.

1050?

[68azbird]

Originally Posted by dragracerx2813

1050?

Yep

[433lemans]

Not trying to hijack, but whatever happened to the Hunt Bros. and Warrior Racing? I have one of their crank scapers new in package with intent to use eventually. A friend has one of these intakes, asked me what it's worth a while back. Told him whatever someone is willing to pay I guess. But this thread might make him interested in keeping it.

[dragracerx2813]

Originally Posted by 68azbird

Same here pump gas 462, with 2 inch spacer it works mint. Drive it everywhere.

I wish mine was a 4500 style.

[69FIREBIRD76MM]

Originally Posted by 68azbird

Yep

Is that a custom carb or out of the box?

[Dragncar]

Not all that hard to convert 2813. You need to run some 5/16 aluminum bolts with JB Weld in your bolt holes. The 4150 and 4500 holes will intersect. Drill and tap the new 4500 holes. Now use a 4 hole 4500 gasket and trace the holes on the surface that needs removed. A machinist can cut the holes in a milling machines and you can grind a large radius in the plenum/ runner transition. Or you could grind it all yourself.
Another thing most do not know about the Warrior. Not only was it the first aftermarket single plane performance intake of any kind (there was a Mopar factory 318 single plane ) It was designed specifically for the then new Holley Dominator. If you look at a 4500 Warrior each the large 4500 butterfly's sit perfectly right on top of 2 runners. Divided right down the middle.
There is a little bit of intake history behind the Nash/Warrior.
A lot of people rag on the Warrior, small plenum, S shaped runners that fuel sticks to. But they can run very well in the right situation.
Put many a BBC with higher CR than me back on their trailer with mine.

[68azbird]

Originally Posted by 69FIREBIRD76MM

Is that a custom carb or out of the box?

Straight out the used ebahy box.
Also ran the warrior on a iron head 406 with a dominator and 3 inch spacer. 10.40 @ 129

[dragracerx2813]

Put many a BBC with higher CR than me back on their trailer with mine.[/QUOTE]

Putting BBC on the trailer is always fun. Haven't got to do that yet since switching to Pontiac. But I will get there.

[Dragncar]

Chebbys are so popular there is no shortage of knownothing knobs who run their mismatched pile of parts and think they are going to beat your lowly Pontiac with their almighty chevy. Granted, if they knew what they were doing or just bought a Shmidt crate engine or the like it can be tough.
While a chevy might be better in the high end of the drag world, they are not better at everything. A 550HP Pontiac will almost always beat a like chevy in the same weight car. Because they will make more torque than the chevy you have to tune for it.
Like the guy who took out the 400 in his first gen bird because he wanted to build it for drag racing, installed a 396. It ran 12s, joke. Said they did not rev, were not reliable ect. Meanwhile I have over 1000 passes on my 9.3 CR iron headed 455 shifting at 5200 455 running 10-90s and running strong as ever now. Built around 1990. My pals heavy second gen bird ran 10.90s with a 400, home ported 62s and a RAIV can with a 750. 10-1 CR. Or the guy who takes out the RAIII in his 69 bird to run a 427 with "TRW 11-1 pop ups" only to run mid 11s.
Plenty of those guys around.
but I want to step my game up. Talking to M Leech right before he got killed inspired me.

[dragracerx2813]

Originally Posted by Dragncar

Chebbys are so popular there is no shortage of knownothing knobs who run their mismatched pile of parts and think they are going to beat your lowly Pontiac with their almighty chevy. Granted, if they knew what they were doing or just bought a Shmidt crate engine or the like it can be tough.
While a chevy might be better in the high end of the drag world, they are not better at everything. A 550HP Pontiac will almost always beat a like chevy in the same weight car. Because they will make more torque than the chevy you have to tune for it.
Like the guy who took out the 400 in his first gen bird because he wanted to build it for drag racing, installed a 396. It ran 12s, joke. Said they did not rev, were not reliable ect. Meanwhile I have over 1000 passes on my 9.3 CR iron headed 455 shifting at 5200 455 running 10-90s and running strong as ever now. Built around 1990. My pals heavy second gen bird ran 10.90s with a 400, home ported 62s and a RAIV can with a 750. 10-1 CR. Or the guy who takes out the RAIII in his 69 bird to run a 427 with "TRW 11-1 pop ups" only to run mid 11s.
Plenty of those guys around.
but I want to step my game up. Talking to M Leech right before he got killed inspired me.

I never got to met Mike. But from the little I talked to him on here, you could tell he was a special guy. When I started racing right out of high school. I made the decision to find the fastest guy at the track and befriend him. So I hooked up with a old super stock racer that had a bad 67 Camaro with a 377 in it. It wasn't long before he had me running faster than he was. I still talk to him and we bounce ideas off each other. But he doesn't know Pontiac. So when I got on here I saw Mike had a bad car and was willing to let me pick his brain. It was a real shock to hear he was killed. Such a waste.

Anyway , so far I am really impressed with how this very mild 455 is running. I have to do some updates to the car before I build more power. But I am already gathering parts. Can't wait to start going fast again.

[Larry Navarro]

......anyone know what became of this intake........Jim Yanoski modded 4500.
I bought it from him back in '01 and never used it. Sold it to someone on PY and was never seen again.

[Speargun]

I bought a 4500 Warrior intake from Warrior Racing back around 1991 and paid around $425 for it (iirc). The plan was to run a 2" spacer on it, but I never got around to putting it on a running engine to see how it performed.

Once my '67 bird is done, just a few weeks more now , I'm going to see how it compares to the Street Dominator & RPM on my 455.
I've been waiting almost 30 years to run some fuel through that intake.