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#80265 07/22/2007 10:00 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 | I was just looking at an Edmunds 5X2 intake for my 270 GMC,and I see that the intake is basically a plenum chamber connected to the head by 3 bolt on elbows. Could these elbows be used as the actual manifold,without the plenum chamber? I want a 3X1 set up,but haven't seen one for the GMC engines.I'm thinking a spacer on each upright with a 1 inch tube between them would help balance the intake pulses to make them flow a little smoother. Ideas,comments?
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#80266 07/22/2007 7:02 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 | Wow - I have never seen a 5 X 2 Edmunds intake! I've seen a 5 X 1 McGurk (I've got one of those) and a 5 X 1 Howard (I've got one of those), but never an Edmunds with that many carbs. Interesting! The idea you are contemplating is basically the idea used by Harper on their set up. The only problem I see when I look at those type of multiple carb intakes is the fact that there is no heat to the intakes, with water or exhaust. You know, of course, that cuts into the effeciency of an intake of that nature. Joe 
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#80267 07/22/2007 11:04 PM | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 395 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 395 | Can,t you get what you want in after market with hot water heat??????Doc | | |
#80268 07/23/2007 6:55 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 | I could be wrong on the brand of manifold-maybe it was a Howard. I didn't have the actual ad in front of me.
So far I've never seen a currently made 3 single throat set up for GMC sixes. There are several available for Chevies,but none that I know of being made now for the GMC.
Not having heat could be an issue,I hadn't thought of that yet.
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#80269 07/23/2007 8:31 AM | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | The Howard 2x5 manifold is a good design. It is actually designed to be used with either two or three carbs, most engines can't actually benefit from all 5. Why not just get blockoff plates and run it with three carbs? Larrowe & Sons sells them.
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#80270 07/23/2007 4:35 PM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 | The Howard I have is actually a 5 X 2 set up also. I'll bet it's a Howard you have. I think mine is a GMC intake also, since it's a plenum chamber with three elbows. I also have some block off plates to make it either a 2 X 2 or a 3 X 2. Joe
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#80271 07/24/2007 8:23 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 | I'm just thinking that running two barrel carbs might be a little excessive on a relatively stock 270. I thought running 3 singles progressively,or 2 singles direct might make a little more power without killing what little fuel economy it currently has. (Maybe running a single two barrel would be the best compromise.)
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