Sunday, January 8, 2012

What do you think of the Edelbrock Torker II?

Is this worth looking into for a hot street car or leave it alone and go dual-plane?|||It is a VERY old and outdated manifold in terms of technology. I have used it before as well.


Unless you have a solid lifter cam to take advantage of high rpm breathing ability, you'll never see the advantages of any single plane manifold and consequently will know a lot of low RPM power out of it. So cam accordingly or else stick with a Dual plane. A Weiand Team G or an Edelbrock Victor Jr are good single plane intakes if you want to make high strung power with the right cam. A good street driver intake is a Weiand Stealth.|||Torker II's are not really all that. There are far better single plane intakes out there, and for my money, I'd probably forget the idea all together and go with a Performer RPM or other solid dual plane. You lose too much torque at the bottom end to make it a decent choice for anything other than a street/strip combo that's more strip than street.





That being said, If I were building a hairy, high-rpm engine and going with a single plane, I'd probably go for a Wiand X-celerator, or a Team G (the Team G's a little more hairy) over the Torker II.|||Street car=dual plane.|||Not worth the alum its made from for most combos.





Its worthless under 5000 rpm and worthless with an engine under 383 cid unless its turbochraged or spraying nitrous.





Its not even really a good intake for high rpm top end engines due to its short runners. The vic JR or super vic blows away the torker II on high rpm engines.





On most common hot street style engines any good dual plane will make more avg. HP and more avg torque than the torker II





I would recommend something like the performer RPM, RPM air gap, pro products crosswinds, etc.





You'll be much happier and faster with the above dual plane than that old torker II design.

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