BurritaSVT
Veteran CEG'er
This was a great 3 liter that was built years back when the first 3 liters swaps were just known to us thanks to David Z, Warmonger, beyondloadedSE, etc. This engine had some adjustable cams to allow the engine to achieve better VE up top. The intake he used was the hybrid setup with the SVT uppers and lower with some porting on the heads. We are all aware of that the intake as you can see could easily support the air needed to achieve the airflow of 280hp Engine with about 260ft/lb torque. The heads that were used on the setup was SVT with 3 liter valves which can outflow a oval port by simple area measurements so my point to the story is that all the bug hype about not being able to support a 3 liter is not been proven yet to be untrue especailly when we can look at this dyno and verfiy that is has not been touched yet. The oval port heads are the big bottle neck anyway if you want to find the weak point NOT the intakes systems. But I can only imagine seeing this come about when you go to 500whp since the oval ports are large also by all means and the split ports even larger. We know the volume is most definitly different but is the lowend torque from the cams or the intakes obviousily we know it is the cams. Heck the SE cams we tune earlier this year put down more torque than the SVT.......hmmm why because it was built for a ATX and the topends suffers because of it just like the Escape cams. Which is great cam by all means.
If I felt the split ports were hampering your power levels then why does this dyno show steady power up top if it was scavenging due to smaller intakes. The SVT car was road tested against all the cars in its class where everyone of their competitors had more torque than it did. But guess which one felt faster and more sporty on acceleration then the other torque monsters SVT was favored over all it class and even over 30k cars when it came to power and performance.
I personally like both setups but it is based on what application you are wanting the car to achieve is going to be your choice. I think we can all agree that price is no longer the problem on any swap or even power I can't see anyone so far completly stomping down insane numbers to shift it from preference to outright performance decision. Joey