Big Jim
Hard-core CEG'er
Somewhere I gained the impression that the late 99 and 00 SVT lower intake manifold was larger than the early SVT intake. I have an early built 98 E0. That was a mistaken impression.
I purchased an 00 LIM from a fellow CEG member believing that it had larger ports. I cleaned it up and ordered gaskets, then got around to installing it today. When I had the two off the car, side by side, I measured the bores with a caliper and they are the same. As far as I can tell there are only two differences. The part number on the decal and a slightly different kink in the linkage rod connecting the front and rear secondary banks. Even the casting number is the same.
So for anyone else that may be thinking it is a fast way to provide a slight increase in horsepower, forgetaboutit.
So for the record, is there a larger on? Is the 96 to 99 Taurus 3.0 larger?
I'm probably going to keep the one I purchased (I put my original back on) for possible use on a 3.0 upgrade. The thought that keeps going through my mind is to have a machine shop increase the bore. A 3.0 is 20% larger so it would make sense to increase the area by 20% to better accommodate the additional displacement. I like keeping the secondaries so new secondary plate would need to be made as well.
I purchased an 00 LIM from a fellow CEG member believing that it had larger ports. I cleaned it up and ordered gaskets, then got around to installing it today. When I had the two off the car, side by side, I measured the bores with a caliper and they are the same. As far as I can tell there are only two differences. The part number on the decal and a slightly different kink in the linkage rod connecting the front and rear secondary banks. Even the casting number is the same.
So for anyone else that may be thinking it is a fast way to provide a slight increase in horsepower, forgetaboutit.
So for the record, is there a larger on? Is the 96 to 99 Taurus 3.0 larger?
I'm probably going to keep the one I purchased (I put my original back on) for possible use on a 3.0 upgrade. The thought that keeps going through my mind is to have a machine shop increase the bore. A 3.0 is 20% larger so it would make sense to increase the area by 20% to better accommodate the additional displacement. I like keeping the secondaries so new secondary plate would need to be made as well.