tf street or track heat?

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Street heat will be better for your stock engine. Before you buy anything, think about your future plans and where you want the car to be. No sense buying a tiny intake now when you have big plans down the road.
 
Well coming from a street heat owner, I'll give my two cents.

The intake upper says specifically idle to 5500... and let me tell you, they aren't kidding about that 5500. This is fine for me as my car usually isn't revved past 4500 on the street.

If and when I go for my cam and heads, I will probably consider switching to a track heat upper. I'll want to build power to 6500, where the street heat will be hard pressed to flow enough cfm. At this point the car will be more of a track car then a street one.

I guess it depends on what you want to do with the car.

Adam
 
I will be totally honest, I can't remember exactly "why" I picked the Track heat over the street heat (Maybe the HP rating) and I've never ran it but maybe I'll look into it more, I know it pulls hard in the higher rpms......I thought I saw someone say the intake is bigger, maybe that's why I see some people kept their bar and mine won't fit.......unless they bought the custom one.......OH WELL:shrug:
 
drakesdad said:
I will be totally honest, I can't remember exactly "why" I picked the Track heat over the street heat (Maybe the HP rating) and I've never ran it but maybe I'll look into it more, I know it pulls hard in the higher rpms......I thought I saw someone say the intake is bigger, maybe that's why I see some people kept their bar and mine won't fit.......unless they bought the custom one.......OH WELL:shrug:

I'd like to throw in my two pennies worth here please :D

If one is gonna go for 300 or better with a typical stock block NA combo

I think the middle of the line intake (Track Heat TFS or RPM Edel) is not necessarily a bad choice.

High end of the rpm band first

Adam basically said it all above.
The street intakes can sign off a bit early.

Now for the low end of the rpm band

It is true, the middle intakes can kill some low end.
however
These days, more and more peeps have seen the light about LT's
so
One can make up all or a good bit of the difference using LT's.

It has seemed to work kinda like that for me :D

Grady
 
Grady, I looked int he summit book last night and compared the two.....I think chose the Track heat because it was listed as 360 hp and the street heat was 350......torque was higher on street heat though......So I did the "Tim the tool man Taylor" and went for the larger HP.....that and $1 will by me a Coke...LOL I'm still content with it even though I am trying to finish the supporting mods.....
 
Oh I also forgot to say that when looking up the set ups last night I saw very small print that states peak HP using a 306 cubic inch flat top engine.........What's up with that....LOL So just how much is this kit pushing out.....:shrug:
 
Black95GTS said:
Well coming from a street heat owner, I'll give my two cents.

The intake upper says specifically idle to 5500... and let me tell you, they aren't kidding about that 5500. This is fine for me as my car usually isn't revved past 4500 on the street.


Yeah I agree. I had a street heat on my 302 and it killed my combo upstairs. I really needed a ported rpm manifold but I did a stroker instead :D I'd MUCH rather have the upstairs power over un needed low end any day of the week.
 
Well, with your plans, I would definately get the Track Heat.

BUT, I would also consider buying a Holley Systemax II intake. It is an almost exact replica of the Vortech intake that was designed SPECIFICALLY for boosted applications. So it's your best bet for any type of forced induction. :nice:
 
I run the R intake and let me tell you it really comes alive at about 2k to 2500 and it pulls especially when i ran nitrous. But I always had plans of being stroked,blown,NO2 or all of the above. Guess it would be an overkill on your set up but what im trying to say is just make sure you look to where you are going to be later it will save you alot of money ,trust me my mistakes have gotten alot of people cheap parts:bang: