Systemax Ii Questions

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It's time to replace my intake (chinese Cobra). I have been told by numerous people that the only intake I should buy is a systemax or a systemax. I am currently running a 3/4 spacer with the cobra intake and it barely clears the hood. Are there clearance problems with this intake, does it sit higher than cobra? The only options I saw for spacers were 3/8 and 1 inch and I am assuming I will need to run the 1 inch. I also had oil consumption problems with pcv on the cobra (no baffle). Do the systemax intakes have an oil baffle or am I going to have to fab one?
 
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It has an oil baffle. Cant comment on oil consumption as i have a catch can with vents off my valve covers and the pcv capped off.
 
i ran an edelbrock rpm2 (very similar to the holley performance wise) with my tfs170s and a stage 2, and i have to say it worked rather well. no spacers needed, plenty of height above the intake. all the available intakes will be baffled for the pcv (the early chinese cobra ones use too small of one though), but with the age and mileage most of the stock short blocks have, the amount of blowby past the rings can overwhelm the stock pcv system no matter what baffle you have or how you have it plumbed. i ended up putting an air compressor water trap inline on the pcv vacuum hose to keep oil out of the intake, there was about a couple thimble fulls of oil in it after a couple weeks on a ~140-150k mile shortblock.
 
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Correction, Valve covers aren't taller (black finned ford racing), double thick gaskets to prevent valve train from hitting baffles. There isn't much room between manifold and valve covers even with 3/4 spacer. Builder recommended double thick gaskets instead of grinding out baffles.
Run same valve covers , blue rubber gaskets for clearence and used to run the intake with no spacer and no issues. The clearence was minimal on the driver side valve cover but it worked fine .

Same head , same valve cover , Harland sharp 1.6 rockers . Those valve covers provide plenty of room with a single blue felpro rubber gasket .


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Run same valve covers , blue rubber gaskets for clearence and used to run the intake with no spacer and no issues. The clearence was minimal on the driver side valve cover but it worked fine .

Same head , same valve cover , Harland sharp 1.6 rockers . Those valve covers provide plenty of room with a single blue felpro rubber gasket .


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Thanks TOOLOW, that was exactly what I was looking for.
 
No still TFS 170s and stage 1 cam. I want to update and round out everything, I'm ditching the c&l and getting an 80mm pro m and power pipe as well.
Got it, though I have to say....don't expect huge gains. The Cobra intake is getting near maxed, but not so much that another intake is going to provide a vast power improvement. You may actually end up picking up some power up top, but at the expense of the low end of your torque curve. Also, the Pro-M 80 is waaaay overkill for your horsepower levels, so unless you've got some form of forced induction in the future, you'd probably be better served with their very popular 75mm bullet.
 
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Holley SysteMax2... Now that's a name I've not heard in many years.