98GTVortech said:
Why would you want to stay away from adaptor plates with a supercharger?? It would seem that the plates would guarantee that you don't lose your intake..IMO
Why would I stay away from the adapter plates with a SC? Because using the plates will cause the car to go lean and you could lose your motor. The only way to find out how lean it is is to put it on the dyno and tune it that way. These plates are not as easy to tune for as if you just swapped over the intake!
What people are not realizing is that a proper calibrated car gets the signal from the MAF telling the EEC how much air the engine is seeing regardless of intake used. A PI intake swap with no vacuum leaks will NOT require a tune, however these plates do. With these plates, you have to command the EEC to provide more fuel because the plates are sitting the fuel injector's higher up on the motor. With a mail order tune at best you are guessing how much more fuel to command.
I have seen over 20 Dyno graphs of cars with PI intake swaps. Some of these cars used Livernois's plates. All of these cars ranged from making 10 HP to 20 HP over the curve and 15 to 36 HP Peak HP over the NPI intake. Livernois's plates swapped cars are in the upper middle of the pack and right on par with the just the gasket swaps in the same area of the country.
Now why I am not using the SVO intake on my car.
1) Cost
2) Requires Hood blanket to be removed and lots of bracing to be cut in a Tbird. It will also dent the hood. What I am going for, is if someone was to pop the hood, the car looks stock. Which intake do I use to accomplish that, PI or NPI? I am not going to choke this car with the NPI.
IMO, the best thing to do is Port-Match the NPI heads to the PI ports and use the PI gaskets with RTV. If I am going to send my SVO's to be P&P, this is the route I would go. However, there was some talk of a gasket being made which had the PI intake ports and NPI coolant ports on modular depot. The guy making these, his first batch failed and then he got injured. If this ever comes back to life, that is a good alternative as well.
I have never seen RTV blow out in a PI intake swapped onto a NPI car or a car with PI Heads using the NPI SVO SC intake. The amount of RTV to be used is very small, and if done properly will not blow out.
With the limited amount of solutions out there, IMO these plates are the WORST ones.