Pi Intake swap

[jo shmo]

wuts up guys in this quest to making my stang more beastly , im going to upgrade to a pi intake to accommodate my p&p heads better then the stock one. but my question is when i went to a local auto parts place (advance auto) they only had the intake with the pre-attached gaskets. i was wondering if any one has done the swap with one of these intakes, or should i just search more and find a regular one were the gaskets are not attached? :BangHead:

 

[PI96GT]

what do you mean by the pre attached gaskets? are they like the gasket that holds the lower intake to the plenum?

 

[jo shmo]

yea its like the top one.

 

[joekd]

My advise, shop somewhere else

The intake I used was an actual Ford piece new in the box and no gaskets included

 

[jo shmo]

its the same intake as the one from ford the gaskets are just attatched

 

[greenscobie86]

That's the Dorman intake... It wont work too well with a PI intake swap on NPI heads... The silicone you put on will leak...

Get an OEM FoMoCo PI intake(with alum. xover) and do the job that way.

 

[jo shmo]

i thought since they were already attached it would have been better / made things easier

 

[greenscobie86]

In the case of the PI intake swap you wanna go the slightly harder way ...

 

[jo shmo]

y is that ?

 

[greenscobie86]

Because you need to lay the silicone when the gasket is laying on the head... If you went with the Dorman intake then you wouldn't know how the surfaces mated/sealed after you lay the intake onto the heads/ports/water jackets...

Just trust us on this one... Buy a Ford intake.

 

[Twista]

I read about people using the Dorman for the pi swap and had no problems.

however, its a fact the dorman is crap when compared to the a ford intake in terms of performance.