The first picture in this thread is of the intake in my car. If Ryan is selling the intake for $1,500 you will get a better deal than I did. I paid $2,000 , but mine had injectors in it. I could'nt use the injectors with the factory computer because of the style. What I saw missing in the other picture was the seals and hold downs for the injectors and the linkage between the throttle shafts. The factory computer can run the system but the original Fiero injectors are the biggest you can put in. I had to fabricate a linkage setup, but I used the original throttle and cruise cables. The air cleaners were made for me by a friend who does machine work. The intake definitley makes a difference. The best time I could get, with the factory intake on a 3.4L engine with a 4T40 transaxle, was 16.5 seconds in the 1/4. After installing the intake I went down to a 15.7 sec 1/4 mile and after installing a manual transaxle I am down to a 15.2 sec 1/4 mile, and the intake is not at it's full potential due to the fuel mapping in the factory computer. I will need a programable computer to get it's full potential. Other misc. items that were needed to make the intake operational were a fuel pressure regulator, AN-6 fuel line fittings and lines, linkage arms from Hilborn fuel injection, a fabricated vacum manifold, copper tubing and fittings to plumb the vacum manifold to each intake runner since the intake did not have any vacum source available for the MAP sensor or cruise control. Now that I have changed to a DIS ignition system I had to get a remote IAC housing to get idle control back, because of the way the computer for the DIS system uses Fuel and IAC on cold start. If anyone decides to purchase one of the intakes from Ryan I can help you get the things made to make it operational. Ryan also had a computer that was used for operating that intake, but is not like the newer computers and would probably not make the intake street drivable. The original design of the intake was for racing use.
Kris A. Munson, Sr.
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