I am having one heck of a time finding just a regular stock intake manifold for a 1990 460. The previous owner put the Edelbrock round port intake on the stock square port heads and I'd like to put it back to stock. Does anybody know of a source for a stock intake manifold? Whenever I do a search for EFI intake manifold, it's for converting a round port early model 460 to EFI (Edelbrock or Weiland). Help!!

 

Best bet is an auto wrecker in your area. He must of carbed the engine than?

 

That's right, slapped an Edelbrock performer intake and carb on the engine without thinking too hard about it....

 

Do you plan on keeping it carbed or returning it to efi?

 

I'm going to buy an adapter to keep it carbed.

 

Dont bother with an EFI manifold then. Just get some GOOD carb heads to go with your carb intake

 

I've considered that route, but cost is a big factor. I looked into getting some older heads, but then I'm messing with compression ratio and paying $500-1000. Interestingly, just after posting this, I found a guy on craigslist who is parting a seized 460 and giving me an intake for $20.

I'm open to suggestions though, if you can point me in the direction of some heads that are <$200 and don't need rebuilding. All I seem to be able to find are aftermarket performance heads.

 

[QUOTE=DrZoom;15680109]I've considered that route, but cost is a big factor. I looked into getting some older heads, but then I'm messing with compression ratio and paying $500-1000. Interestingly, just after posting this, I found a guy on craigslist who is parting a seized 460 and giving me an intake for $20.

I'm open to suggestions though, if you can point me in the direction of some heads that are

 

yes......?

 

That intake sounds like a good deal dude!

 

I know! I was prepared to buy the whole seized engine for 150 just for the intake, but then he said I could just take the intake for $20. It's a 90 minute drive, but it'll be worth it! Still have to buy the adapter for about 150 though....

 

I dont know WTF happened there. But...

$20 intake+, $?? adapter, = ZERO performance

 

I figured it was a technical glitch... I get what you're saying Brad, but I am not familiar with any heads that can be procured for less than ~$1000. Will the performance of a stock intake be great? No. Will it be better than my current mis-matched ports? Absolutely. Do I want to put some performance heads on that bad boy and burn some rubber? You bet - just point me in the direction of some reasonably priced heads, or wait until I save up the $$.

 

Brad - what are your thoughts on porting EFI heads? Could that be a cost effective way to add a bit more power instead of buying new heads? Not sure how much room for improvement there is on the EFI heads.....

 

Did the PO yank the all the EFI parts and fuel pump too? Seems kind of an extreme solution to convert to a carb setup.