Got the intake on finally. Still have to do some vacuum line routing but there arent any fuel or vacuum leaks from the intake or rails anywhere that I could tell. I could only leave the truck running for a few seconds because theres only manifolds and a couple feet of pipe on the truck for exhaust right now. Neighbors wouldnt have been to happy, haha.



Plenty of hood clearance.


New wheels/tires for track use.

 

Anyone running a vacuum block have any suggestions on where to mount this guy? I have plenty of room on the passenger side for now but worried about vacuum line routing once the snail and downpipe are in place.

 

Looking good, what size tires?

 

Hell I don't even remember. They were on a friend of mines lowered RCSB so they're quite a bit shorter than my 305/50-20s that are on my factory wheels. And a whole lot lighter lol.

 

Looks like 265/65-17s to me.

Can't wait to see everything all finished up!

 

I want to say they're at least 275-285 on the width, not sure on diameter. Either way they'll be a hell of a lot better than the old set of track wheels and tires I was running...17s with some 245 highway tread tires on them. Helped my 1/4 mile time by quite a bit but 60' suffered a little because of spinning out of the hole. I don't think I'll have the same spinning issues with these but then again who knows.

 

Why is everyone swapping to this Hi-Ram intake? Aesthetics I could see as a potential reason, but is this thing any better than the stock intake performance wise?

 

I'm sure on a max effort build it would see some gains over a factory manifold, I just bought it because it looks better. And if I get any gains out of it at all then it's just a bonus. I figured with as much money as I am dumping into this truck on this build I might as well make the engine bay somewhat pleasing to the eye.

 

I need one of those soon too...

 

Its a pretty handy little piece and seems to be made well. The particular one that I have has one 3/8" inlet which you see in the middle, two 1/8" outlets on either side of the 3/8" and another 1/8" on each side of the block. So after all my vacuum brake system is gone I should have plenty of vacuum ports to not have to run any vacuum t's to get everything hooked up. I should be able to run an individual line from each component to the vacuum block. I hope