I am buying an Edelbrock performer intake for my matching carb (edelbrock perf) and my question is simple, as I'm sure atleast one of you have tried this combo.
How much of a hood clearance issue am I gonna have? not like "will it be there" cause it will be I'm just wondering like how many inches of clearance I would need, I assume nothing over 2 inches is over kill, but still I must ask, will it fit under stock at all, and if not, how much of a cowl or scoop (or even hole in the top of hood) would I need
Cause I'm finishing it all up on the 1st (when the intake is ordered) so I need to just put all the "don't fit" things onto a list so I can try to find away to fix them.


-Karma

 

It will clear, Had this combo before I when to a torker 2. No clearance problem at all. I have, I believe a 2 inch or so air ceaner. Just make sure that your air cleaner rod is not to long or you will put a dent in you hood. Good luck

 

Yes, when I ran that combo and a proflow tri-angular air cleaner the hood would crunch the top of the air cleaner. It does fit but really tight.

I like it all under the hood so no-one knows what you are runnin.

 

Ive got a Torker II and Edelbrock carb on mine now with one of those triangle looking edelbrock air cleaners and Ive still got like an inch or two.

 

Performer RPM, Edelbrock 750, 14x3" K&N with a 1" drop base air cleaner under the stock hood and no clearance problems

 

Thank you guys for the help
I would like to remain stock appearance as much as possible, as stock is best for street racing, the cops don't know your kick *** and either do all those damned hondas
another fast question, what kind of gain should I expect with this setup? I dunno what I'm expecting from any of this, I'm mostly just doing all this just to replace all the old tired stuff on the engine.

Thanks again you all
-Karma

 

I assume all of you have camaro's. What about firebirds, do they have the clearance issues with the performer rpm? I have a torker 2 and I want to go with a dual plane.

 

i think the year also helps. it seems to me that the older(around 86) camaros have more room.. i know on my 89 just with a pro-flow air cleaner hits the hood... the 86 we have here has an bigger aftermarket carb with spacer and cleaner isnt hitting.. both cars have 305s

i duno if the fiberglass hood on the 86 has anything to do with it..

 

Yup - pop both hoods and look underneath. The 'glass hood doesn't have all the bracing that a stock steel hood does.

FWIW - I have a performer with a non-CC q-jet and a 14x3 1.5" offset air cleaner hit when I closed the hood. Ordering a 14x2.5 offset and taking out the center hood bracing to fix the problem

- Justin