Best place to pick up a Cobra Jet Intake Manifold and throttle body?
 

Hey gents read over all the forums and saw a ton of mentions about a guy named Tousley? When it came to ordering the CJIM and CJTB so where's the best place to order them from? Or how do I contact Tousley? Sorry noob question.

Nevermind found it

Tasca Ford

tasca has the best prices on ford racing parts

Would check prices at both Tasca and Tousley/White Bear lake. I think Tousley is the largest Ford Racing parts dealer in the country.

Subscribing for the info.

-Alex

Well Tasca and Tousley are the same price on the throttle body at $610.50 according to their websites and only Tousley has the manifold listed on the web, $713.90.

They're cheaper than that. Why don't you hit up Yagermiester. He has one used for sale.

Tasca quoted me about $650 for the intake with the SVTP forum discount. Call them up and ask for Steve.

Sort of off topic but, does anyone know if the manifolds still look like garbage? I read over on SVTP (with pics) of the manifolds being really poor quality.

-Alex

Not poor quality. This is a cast mold intake, so there will naturally be rough edges, which is what people are talking about. Just take a dremel and spend a few minutes to smooth everything down.

And that crowd is a lot of talk, with poor results. Same ones that carry on about needing all kinds of cam timing changes for every little thing, they all think they need a 5" tube, and all think they need a ton of gear in their cars. My manifold is untouched, I haven't changed the cam timing since June 2010. I don't think one of that crowd over there has run 10.anything yet.

I was just referring to a few particular pictures a member there posted of the part he received. Not track times. The intake runners had stress cracks all inside the inside and had to be filled in order to be smooth. Other members saw similar structural issues with theirs as well, so that's all I was referring to. For the price of the part, I don't believe the craftsmanship should look shoddy.

-Alex

Yeah if you really want to get them riled up say something less than positive about a GTR, for a Ford site they sure do like them some GTR.

So what do you you have done to your car that its runs a 10.5 quarter? On the bottle?

IIRC, kdanner has a badass tune and he knows what he's doing.

if he was closer, id have him do my tune if he was available.

No bottle. All motor. kdanner is boss motor with CJ intake, I believe, with a few small weight mods, and just knows his tuning. Also an auto. His car moves out.

Just intake, no exhaust mods?

No, he's full bolt-ons + stall. But a CJ intake instead of the Boss.....I think. He may still have the Boss IM.

Yes you can see gaps on the inside, it is not made in 1 piece, you'd have to 3D print them to do that and that wouldn't be cost effective. CJs are running 10.0s letting out of the throttle way early, there's nothing wrong with those intakes. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the guys grinding on the inside of them are hurting more than helping.


3.5 years of constant tweaking is the best answer. It is a Boss engine I got a deal on, stock other than the CJ manifold and headers. The car has the right converter/gear/tires/suspension. I track tune it, as dyno numbers do nothing to get it down the track quickly, which is my end goal. I'm sure it doesn't make much horsepower, but the car is able to use every last one of them.

Honestly, Kris, if be really interested on knowing what your car puts down. I know dynos aren't your thing, but might just be nice to know?

As for the runner "porting", most of the guys are just getting rid of the casting lines on the inside of the runner, not really doing much of a typical port job

Can't, the axle and trans are already gone, and engine is going to be. I'm having a dummy converter made for the new trans strictly for chassis dyno use since it is a non lockup trans, and do plan to spend a little time on the dyno with all the new stuff just to get a baseline to start with, really much the same as what I did back in June 2010 when I got the car.

What all is going in now? Glide and 9"?

Protrans 3 speed and sort of a 9" but lots of aluminum internal parts and others cut down to lighten, all ceramic bearings. Engine will be 2014 CJ spec. I got the brakes in the other day and they are artwork.

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Sweet mother!

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kdanner, safe to assume you won't be running the Mustang at the Texas Mile this March?

Sweet set up though.

As for the CJ intake build quality, I'm sure its mostly a couple cases being exacerbated on internet forums.

Yeah this car is done with the mile stuff. Maybe build something different for that sometime. I'd really like to do 200 NA there, only know of a couple of cars that did it, one was nearly 600 inches, the other had a nascar engine.

You would need every trick in theworld of physics to get one of these cars there. lol

Correct, Mustang aero is just flat out terrible. I did some rough calculations comparing the Mustang to a 1996-97 Thunderbird, the Mustang loses over 100hp more to aero drag at 180 mph.

So now we know to find an old tbird for a coyote swap. Haha

lol

Which I just happen to already have a low mileage example of. Only one project car at a time though, it's already too cluttered here. I really think the easiest way to do it with something resembling a street car would be something along the lines of an LS swapped RX-7. Need a small car to get the frontal area down, and mod motors just don't fit in small cars.

Johns ls rx-7 is crazy fast

Coyote swap GT40 kit car? Small frontal area, lightweight.

That'd work. Expensive replicars though. A GT40 MK4 replicar would be way cool.

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That's so badass.