l98+t5

ok i was just looking in the carb csection and i cant take it anymore i have to see a bunch of TPI setups that are stil tPI not LT1,HSR,Mini ram ok ill start with mine a stock tpi setup

JOHNNY383

My '87 T/A with 383 taken at a High Performance Pontiac Shootout a couple years back. 12.00 at 112mph. Englishtown NJ.

Abubaca

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Well she's no beast per se, but she'll get up an boogie if ya ask nice!:rockon:

89 Iroc Z

Abubaca,
I like the L-98 sticker where you get it from?

jgifford

Here's some of the better pics of miine...

Tony89GTA

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DownUnderIROC

Abubaca

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I work at a sign shop, so I can make stuff like that whenever I want!!!

anesthes

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Wicked TPI? As in wicked power robbing and heavy? If so, thats all of them.

If your talking about wicked horsepower. Well, I did everything from stock, stock ported to aftermarket then fully ported aftermarket. Car would not trap more than 110mph in the quarter.

I sold the setup, and built a Singleplane EFI manifold (with rails, monoblade TB, etc) for around $300 and trapped 119mph in the quarter for anohter 150 passes til the season ended.

So this is no "ignorant TPI hating". This is educated experience of years (1999-2004) of messing with a doomed system.

-- Joe

TPI Monte SS

Here's mine. It's an LB9 with World Products S/R Torquer 305 heads, SVO injectors, SLP runners, hogged out plenum, Crane 2031 roller cam, roller rockers, and an underdrive crank pulley. The intake, valve covers, and headers were coated by Airborn Coatings up in CT.

Frank 84 Bird

Hows the quality of the coating on your headers? I'm thinking of having them coat my headers. There only 40min from my house.

Thanks

anesthes

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I used to be an ACS supporter, but they seemed to have just. Lost it.. Too bad cuz they did a pretty good job on my stuff.

In the future, I'll prolly have chris (TPI383) do my coating work. His work seems good, and he's a really nice guy.

-- Joe

TPI Monte SS

I've been happy with their work. My plenum, baseplate, and valve covers were done 4 years and over 20K miles ago, and still look good. The SLP runners were a recent addition, so I had them coated along with the headers. I sent them back to get redone, only because a nasty oil leak eventually ate through the coating and the lower Y-pipe started rusting. Otherwise they still looked pretty good, just a little dull.

nitrovette

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Heres mine.

406TPI

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Heres what mine looks like for now..........

anesthes

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Thats a nice clean engine bay.

-- Joe

rawley2

WOW 406TPI,, You are making me jealous.

Out of all these you GMV..

IROCThe5.7L

shawn87gta

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406TPI, can you provide more details on the part that looks like an aluminum "heater core log" on the pass side valve cover? Where is your heater control valve? Thanks.

Wicked Mayhem

Heres my Chevy LUV with tpi... its just a stock 305... anyone have a clue why i cant get over 75ish mph?? when i hit like 76-77ish it acts like its on a rev limiter or something wont go ne faster...

Ziggster

thats weird i have not heard of that before. Maybe the TPS is not set up right?

D's89IROCZ

Here's mine . Missing a plenum ,etc but you get the idea
****edit**** cardomain will not host now click my www. and hit page 2 to see it

406TPI

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Thanks Joe...it's a real chore keeping the white clean

Shawn...I made that piece...I just wanted some way of organizing those hoses a little better, it also makes taking the valvecover off a breeze too
I don't use a heater control valve...not necessary.

Rawley2..thanks man

Clutch_Grabwell

It's running but not quite finished.

91B2L

Here's mine

1992rs/ss

mine

Abubaca

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I've heard that if you don't run a HCV, even with the heat off, you still get hot air coming out the vents. Is that not the case.

I'd really like to do away with mine.

vernw

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not the cleanest, but still mine <grin> ...

91GTABird

406TPI, how did you get (fill in?) the channels out of the plenum?

406TPI

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I machined them off in a mill and then handmade the dist. cover from 6061 flatstock.

BadSS

Hmm,,, with a ported stock base and modified SLP runners,,, I ran 12.5s with a best mph of 112.47 in my IROC with it gutted in cool weather. Full weight in near 90 degree heat it would run close to 110 mph – naturally aspired, flat top 355, with box stock G1 TFS heads that everyone seems to have problems with,, and a stock PROM. I swapped to StealthRam and the ETs dropped because it rolled off enough torque at and around my stall speed to allow for full throttle launches with the stock suspension - something I could not do with the TPI system. However, I didn't see a real increase in MPH - mainly because the gearing was about perfect for the TPI system,, which means I didn’t have enough gear with the StealthRam. Point being, just because YOU picked up a lot of MPH with your intake swap doesn't mean everyone would - it will depend on how well the car is set up towards one or the other whether you see any real gain or not.

ThirdGenFire

Mine....before I go aftermaket for a new TPI induction.

ThirdGenFire

I know I know I gotta get a new overflow tank and some non yellow wires but that is coming in 2 weeks. I also got my new valve covers and breather in last week so that will also be going in along with a new paint job.

91GTABird

406TPI, that looks so good man. Nice job. You think the local machine shop could do that for me?

Zepher

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here is my 86,


and my 88 with the NOS Plate system,

I put the corrugated tubing around the lines to see if anyone won't notice it, and most people don't, not even the tech guys at the track.

meridius

Well seeing as how my 84 never even had one from factory Id say it can be done away with, You will get a slight amount of heat flowing from the vents but its ardly even noticeable to me so I was thinking about taking it off my GTA too because it is so cluttered under the hodd and is crying to be cleaned up.

406TPI

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I don't get hot air coming out of the vents unless I have the heat turned up. If you don't like the heat, just turn it down to a cooler setting, not a big deal at all.

406TPI

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Yup, you could probably find someone to do it locally...don't know how much they would charge though? It's a fairly odd set-up you have to do to get the top of the plenum where the grooves are flat to the machine. It's also a challenge to clamp that thing down to the machine..it's really an odd piece when you start to look at it from that standpoint.

LBSZ28BLOWN

Here's my 92, I'm currently upgrading the Blower from my
6psi Paxton SN2000 to a 14psi Paxton VR-4.
Pic with the SN2000

T/A_TERROR

not much, but heres mine. I may switch to hsr ?

omnipotentgoku

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It was..





It is

okfoz

Here is the pic of mine found int Pontiac Firebird by Marc Cranswick not as nice as some of yours tho

omnipotentgoku

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Look in the engine gallery, their are some nice tpi's posted their.

http://www.omnipotent-goku.com/iroc/gallery/engines

GTAfanatic

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the blower is bypased at this time i was wateing for my new pulley

GTAfanatic

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hope this works before and after

Azrael91966669

here is mine
pretty much a stock swap onto a lo3 i recently ported the plenum well the walls behind the tb other then that stock no air foil i took these after one of my weekly engine bay hose downs

Azrael91966669

woops double post

Mongoose

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Here's mine, not much but it's clean.

Gunner823

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Cam-aro

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TPIS Mini-Ram Intake - Dart 215cc Iron Heads - TPIS ZZ-X Cam(.598 lift) - 4in Cold Air Intake - Etc.

396whp On Dyno.