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 Posted: 02-27-2012 07:34 pm
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Jensen Healey



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 If the budget is near $0 then your course is clear. When I was 16 years old we used to "rebuild" an engine by lapping the valves, honing the cylinder walls and throwing in some new rings and bearings, then wonder why the lump still smoked.

If you have stock cams the difference in the intake size isn't going to make a noticeable change to the power output.

Bigger isn't always better. The higher velocity air inside the smaller intake may be atomizing the fuel more efficiently. For the 8.5:1 compression and Stromberg carb engine it works just fine.

If Lotus knew what they were doing would the stock Dellortos have been so poorly jetted they had that 2000 rpm flat spot?