What about this intake?

[furyus]

I'm building a 505 RB stroker. Indy EZ1 heads, hydraulic roller cam. I currently have an Edelbrock RPM intake. 64 Sport Fury. This is mostly a street driven car.
I have the valley plate from Indy. It won't fit with the RPM intake. The heat crossover is in the way. My choices are to have the crossover milled off the intake, or get a 440 source valley pan with the drop down in the cover to clear the heat crossover, or use an eddy Torker2 intake, or maybe the Holley streetmaster, Chosen for hood clearance.
What would you do?

 

[ruffcut]

I'd use a valley pan gasket and call it done! ruffcut

 

[WileE]

In terms of $$, I would think the OE valley tray is least costly, then the 440 source valley pan.

 

[diesel_lv]

I use the stamped valley pan but I did mill my heat crossover off. Aluminum heads w no heat port, less heat soak into intake from being close to engine and more room to run wires from my fuel injection. Actually just used an angle grinder to cut it off, pretty easy. Since you already have the Indy plate and the RPM manifold, at home angle grinder is my vote.

 

[pnora]

If the heads do not have a heat cross over than cut it off and use what you have. I see you live in Florida so very little to no benefit to a crossover especially true if you are running headers.

 

[PRHeads]

If the original plan was to use the RPM intake, then just cut the x-over off and use it.

 

[RemCharger]

The last thread about this, someone posted a pic of the source pan in the garbage. Lol
My vote would lean towards a holley sreet dominator. And the indy tray.
RPM is a bit of a choker on an engine like that

 

[PRHeads]

The SD will also need to be modified to work with the Indy valley cover.

 

[furyus]

The last thread about this, someone posted a pic of the source pan in the garbage. Lol
My vote would lean towards a holley sreet dominator. And the indy tray.
RPM is a bit of a choker on an engine like that

This is why I was wondering about using a low profile single plane.

 

[furyus]

The SD will also need to be modified to work with the Indy valley cover.

I have seen the bottom of the SD, and you are right, it will need to be cut. So that just leaves the Torker 2. Is there a performance advantage to using the Torker2 over the RPM?

 

[diesel_lv]

I'm not sure where the RPM chokes a 505 mostly street engine. I'm running it on my 496 w a conservative cam and am 610hp/670tq on engine dyno. Granted I make peak hp at 5,200 rpm. But mine is "Always" street driven, never track.

 

[Backrd.Junkyard]

Depends on weight and gearing. Heavy cars with tall gears perform better with the RPM. But if you have done some weight reduction and have low gears, I would be searching for an Edelbrock TM7 Tarantula.

 

[RemCharger]

I'm not sure where the RPM chokes a 505 mostly street engine. I'm running it on my 496 w a conservative cam and am 610hp/670tq on engine dyno. Granted I make peak hp at 5,200 rpm. But mine is "Always" street driven, never track.

I may have gone a bit far with the choked.
I'm more of a single planes and race track guy.
Apologies.

 

[IQ52]

If I had the EZ-1 heads (which have the Max Wedge port openings) and 4.250" stroke, I'd use an Indy Dual Plane or single plane. Getting a Max Wedge port opening out of an RPM intake must be done with care (same with the Torker II).

A well ported RPM intake would handle a street 505 and would be capable of 640 HP before 6,000 rpm. Seen it on a 4.150 stroke 496. The Torker II was down about 20 TQ and 20 HP.

Oh, hood clearance, my bad.

 

[Cranky]

I'm building a 505 RB stroker. Indy EZ1 heads, hydraulic roller cam. I currently have an Edelbrock RPM intake. 64 Sport Fury. This is mostly a street driven car.
I have the valley plate from Indy. It won't fit with the RPM intake. The heat crossover is in the way. My choices are to have the crossover milled off the intake, or get a 440 source valley pan with the drop down in the cover to clear the heat crossover, or use an eddy Torker2 intake, or maybe the Holley streetmaster, Chosen for hood clearance.
What would you do?

I'm thinking you meant the Holley Street Dominator and not the Streetbastard made by Edelbrock? You do NOT want to use a Streetmaster but I think you probably know that.

 

[Backrd.Junkyard]

What he said. With max wedge port openings, you really need an Indy intake. Or perhaps a cross ram…

 

[33 IMP]

Mine. A sixpack.

 

[33 IMP]

I'm thinking you meant the Holley Street Dominator and not the Streetbastard made by Edelbrock? You do NOT want to use a Streetmaster but I think you probably know that.

Agreed.
Streetmaster is quite possibly the worst intake ever made.

 

[furyus]

If I had the EZ-1 heads (which have the Max Wedge port openings) and 4.250" stroke, I'd use an Indy Dual Plane or single plane. Getting a Max Wedge port opening out of an RPM intake must be done with care (same with the Torker II).

A well ported RPM intake would handle a street 505 and would be capable of 640 HP before 6,000 rpm. Seen it on a 4.150 stroke 496. The Torker II was down about 20 TQ and 20 HP.

Oh, hood clearance, my bad.

Thanks for the input. I have the ez325, which is standard port. Sorry for any confusion. Also, I guess I am going with the RPM.

 

[furyus]

I'm thinking you meant the Holley Street Dominator and not the Streetbastard made by Edelbrock? You do NOT want to use a Streetmaster but I think you probably know that.

I've never really had any experience with the Holley intakes, so I was mistaken. it's the Street Dominator I was thinking of.