This may not mean much to anyone, but I finally, finally am looking at installing my first legit performance upgrade. I picked up a new intake manifold -for free, yes, free- but it has to stay at home while I'm at school. I'm thinking about taking it to a shop to have it checked out to make sure it's not cracked or anything. It's an Edelbrock Torker II, anyone know anything about it? I was just reading some stuff on the Edelbrock site about it.

 

Sweet! you damn sure can't beat free!

 

I dont know about anyone else, but I always like hearing about someone modding their truck, especially when its a cool truck like yours.... By the way, my cousin had one of those torkers on his nova, and he couldn't stop frying his tires...... You've been warned........

 

says on the edelbrock site that its not for heavy vehicles but i think you will be fine, especially for FREE! personally if i was buying one id get a performer RPM, but the torker should work fine. how high are you revving to now?

 

I had read the info on the Edelbrock site and wasn't quite sure. The other thing is that the site says it "will not fit 1987 and later cast iron heads" but since mine is an '86 I'm assuming that it should be fine, because in '87, if I'm not mistaken, GM switched to TBI on the C-10 and that changed things up.

As far as how high I am revving... I don't know. I don't have a tach or anything to measure it.

 

Yep, you'll be fine. The later heads thing is easily fixed though even if you had the TBI heads. The only thing that entails is the center 4 intake bolts go in at less of an angle on the TBI heads than the Carbed heads, it just takes a 3/8" drill bit to angle the hole in the intake out a little and they'll fit just fine, done it many times.

As for the Torker II, you'll be fine with it, I ran a Torker I on my 84 Silverado. You just want to make sure you run a cam that kicks in about 500-1000 RPM below your intake to get the max effect, since the Torker line was a high RPM line and you'll need your low end grunt in the heavier truck but still won't want to give up too much on the low end. That Torker I speak of got stolen from me a few weeks ago.

 

Any suggestions on a good cam, well, one that will work with the intake?

 

If it were me, I'd go with something like a Comp 224*/230*, .470"/.460". It'll have a noticeable idle being on a 110LSA, but you won't have to run a stall or upgraded springs for it and it won't be too hard to drive around either. It'll come into it's powerband at 1500 rpm and run all the way up to 6500 rpm. It should work nicely with your intake and they'll compliment each other pretty well also.

That cam is # 12-320-4 if you want to look at it, just go to jegs or summit's website and type that in as the keyword search and it should pop up.

 

What carb are you going to be running since the Torker II has a square bore flange and a Q-Jet won't fit right unless you get an adapter plate or are you just going to run an adapter plate?

 

The guy that gave it to me already had an adapter plate on it. He actually had his old Q-jet in the back of his truck, so the first thing I did was see if it fit...everything was flush and lined up without a problem.