Does anyone know if a Edelbrock super victor and a low profile TB will fit under the hood of a 4th gen F body? I am building a solid roller 383 LT4 with Dart heads and I am planning on using a Super Victor intake and a distributor to run the car. A 1250 cfm Accel TB will meter the air flow.

 

Hasn't anyone out there done something like this.......

 

This may give you an idea of how it will look like. not my car, got that after searching.
http://www.hotrodhawk.com/third_stag...d_pictures.htm

 

Not under a stock hood though.

You'll need at least a cowl hood to make it work.

 

talk to SstrokerAce about it he makes single plane intakes work lt1's and even converts them for fuel injection

 

A Super Victor will fit under a stock hood. The only thing you have to do is cut a small piece of the hood "webbing" out right in front of the cowl. This is with a Precision Turbo 4" elbow and AccuFab TB. The elbow had to have 1" milled off the bottom....they are very thick to start with.

It all fits with minimal cutting, but most defiantly under the stock hood

Jason

 

It will fit with just minimal cutting of the cowl, last time i knew Bret was working on a intake elbow for use with the super vic intake that allows you to reuse a stock 58mm TB and all fit under the stock hood as well. It was the direction i was going to go but I decided to go carbed instead so ive got to do a little extra clearencing of the cowl and run a different hood.


-john

 

No cutting of the cowl (plastic piece) was required on my car. Cleared it by at least an inch.

Jason

 

Jason, do you have any pics you could post up for reference too. all the pics ive seen were from cars where they cut the cowl back completely to the windshield which was way to much but i havnt seen any wherre they only cut back just enough for what they needed,

thanks man,
-john

 

You are thinking of a 4bbl throttle body or carb setup.....in which case you do need to cut the cowl. With a 4" 90/100/110 degree elbow like I had, it clears everything on the cowl. The only thing that needed to be trimmed was the metal support under the outer skin of the hood. However, it wont fit unless you mill down the base of the elbow quite a bit.

I dont have any pics of the setup, but it is now on "atljar" (Jared's) car. It is up and running and I have seen a couple pics floating around of it. Not sure what hood he is running though.

Jason

 

The 90* elbow setup is nice but you have to do some work to get the TB to match up with the cables and what not.....

Getting it to fit under a stock Z28 hood I would think would be tough without some serious work to the Elbow......

BTW watch out for bad injector angles on single plane EFI conversions, using the right bungs is the key.

Bret

 

Brett, I am thinking about using the Accel Pro ram which is basically a Victor. Using that manifold and the Accel 1200 4bbl or possibly the 1350 three barrle TB from Accel. These manifolds are all cnc machined and are a very low profile. I beleive that the bodies are about 2.5 to 3" tall certainly considerably less than a standard Holley type carb or a Q-Jet carb. I was going to convert a set of Dart Pro1 230 heads to LT1 specs but the guy doing it says there are going to be problems with the Darts with porosity, he says it can be done but its going to take a lot of time to do it. Crap if I knew that I would have gone with Brodix or something else. In any case I think that the Super Vic is a better manifold than the LT1 manifod anyway.

This elbow that you guys are all talking about is that the elbow that bolts to the manifold carb flange that allows you to use a twin bore TPI style 58mm throttle body?

 

I've done a Accel conversion for a guy, not a bad intake, I like the Super Vic better but it doesn't come with bungs in it from the get go.

Yep!

 

Thanks Brett, I am going ahead with the LTx head conversion. I misunderstood Lloyd when we talked on the phone the other day. I still have to convert the heads regardless of the intake bolt pattern. There is considerable work to be done in order to make the heads work as reverse flow. So for now I am going to use the stock LTx manifold with this combo. We have stock eliminator cars running 10.70s with the stock manifold and a 48mm TB using a cam with 250+ intake duration ground on 106 too 108 LSA so I would think a heavily ported LT4 intake with these darts and the right cam will run with them easily. If not then its back to the drawing board