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| RE: Edelbrock SP2P? |
| By McQ - 07/21/2005 12:45:32 AM; IP 4.242.10.7 |
Royce, aren't you talking about the SP2P that E'brock offered for a few years. It was in the seventies and it was designed for exactly what you described. It was trully a non-performance piece of aluminum junk. The SP2P was offered for a variety of engines.
The Streetmaster was a "Do-it-Yourself" port matching job. It even came with instructions in the box about how to port match your intake to the heads. It was a single plane and depending upon all the other necessary combination of parts, could work easily into the low 6,000 rpms.
I port matched one to my CJ heads and found it worked very well except that I developed a leak between the water passage and #1 port. I think it was my fault but at the time I blamed the narrow lip between the port/water passage. Of course, I immediately removed it and reinstalled my tried and true PI intake. But I have to say that in the short time I drove the car with that intake, it sure felt strong and the cam I was running at the time was a 6,200 max Schneider solid lifter. The CJ pulled very hard to that red line and it just felt great. But I never got an actual run at the drag strip to get the true comparison.
A good friend of mine, Jerry Pruitt, Yakima, WA, did very well in Super Stock competition, '64 Galaxie Custom with legal 352. His intake of choice? The Edelbrock Streetmaster. He ported/modified it greatly but it's his opinion that the Edelbrock Streetmaster is a gem if "worked" properly.
Right out of the box, the Streemaster does have small runner ports, i.e., similar to the -S- cast iron intake, the C7ZX dual four intake and even the C7AE PI intake. But the potential is there for a great performance intake. I don't believe the Streetmaster was ever intended as a mileage maker supposedly like the SP2P.
BTW, Edelbrock will still send you those Streetmaster porting instructions if you request them. |
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