Please don't confuse anything for a pissing contest, as that is exactly what I am asking you to help me avoid here.
I've no axe to grind with you, or anyone else. Those who know me also know I don't waste time carrying a dull axe. When I'm upset with someone, they know all about, no hesitation required.
I don't know you either. Which leaves me in the position of questioning your CV, when I see you offer the kind of nonsensical commentary you have in this thread. You offer questionable advice, trump it with an outright erroneous statement and everyone is meant to just accept it as fact and move on? You then return, continue with your obvious misunderstanding of intake manifold design and suggest *I* am the one entering into a pissing contest?!? Whilst I still don't know you, I'm certainly learning more about you, with each successive post you submit.
I've simply asked you to support your statement with facts. Not as a method of seeing who can piss the strongest stream, please understand, but as a method of getting someone who offers questionable, drive-by commentary to get in front of what he is saying. And yes, I've been doing this long enough to recognize a drive-by when I see it.
Any time a single four barrel carb is used on a tunnel ram intake, the cylinders located furthest from the four throttle bores will suffer, of that there is no question. Yet I built that very combination and set multiple 1/8 and 1/4 mile records with it. I have built combinations using one Dominator and one Dominator split and had the same record-setting results. I have built a combination using one 750 an one Dominator split, with the same record-setting results. I have experience with disabling one carb and using just one carb on a street-driven, tunnel ram combination and actually accomplishing acceptable results. I have used progressive linkage combinations on several street-driven, tunnel ram applications with acceptable results. I'm saying it can be done as a result of my experiences in building these things, running them on the dyno and in both race and street-driven applications.
Would a single 4 bbl top on that tunnel ram intake work better? Absolutely. Would one of those carburetors on a Performer RPM intake work even better yet. Without question. As I stated earlier, the point here is to make the parts in hand work as well as possible. And that can be done with minimal effort and cost, in spite of what you have had to offer thus far.
If you cannot support your statements, I am OK with that. (Actually, I'm OK with it because I could see your errors coming into it) They will stand as a statements made without foundation and tomorrow is another day. And I will will call out the next person who makes the same kind of silly, error-filled and unsupported statements. Who will doubtless make all the same erroneous assumptions about myself you have just made.
So this time, I'll remove all doubt as to my position - show me how an intake manifold utilizing a common plenum to join all the intake runners is ever going to be considered anything close to an individual runner intake. There is your challenge, sir. With the full knowledge it cannot be accomplished, I bid you a good day with the hope and expectation you will present no further disinformation to anyone. Since, by your very admission, you spend no time on this forum, I will thank you for not furthermisinforming those who do.
(Silly me, for wasting my time in this manner. My initial response to this claptrap should have been a simple put up or shut up. The next bit of silliness won't get the benefit of the doubt.)
