I am going to take my intake down to get it powdercoated tomorrow and I have to decide which one of two intakes to use. I have a completely stock untouched 93 intake that came on the car and a ported stock 93 intake that I got locally. The intake has had the throttle body holes opened up to 57mm and the runners have been enlarged and are actually now pretty much exactly the same size as the ports on my heads when I measured them with a caliper. Everything looks pretty proffesional, but I wanted some opinions before I take the ported one to be coated.. here are some pics of the intake as well as a few crappy pics of my ported heads on the motor:

http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ara...take+and+heads

I just don't want to bolt this intake up and find I would be better with a stock intake for whatever reason. It looks like the intake gaskets are going to be slightly larger than both the intake ports on the heads as well as the ports on the intake manifold.

 

doesnt look that bad. i dont see how running an intake that is unported would be any better, so i say just go for it. make sure you clean it real well before you send it off for powder coating.

 

Well, more time spent with my old gaskets and the caliper makes me almost positive that the ported heads (came on car I bought I didn't have them ported) were port matched at the intake inlet and that the intake manifold I bought was also port matched since all the measurements come out exactly the same. I think both were ported to gaskets that measure 1.25" x 2.040".. I ordered a set of fel-pro 1284's from kragen and I hope they match up to the ports on both the intake and heads. If not I guess I'll pick up a set of stock GM LT1 gaskets.

I guess the intake I picked up for $20 locally might have been worth it.