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Coleroad
blue line stock. Red line just the 3/4" spacer. Dark red line is ported intake and spacer.
the laminator would be slightly less than the regularly ported intake. Jason`s R&D showed no real improvement by porting the bottom side of the intake. It actually slowed air velocity going into the cylinder heads. Kenny "camaro " Roberts ports both the front and bottom end of the intake. I don`t believe he`s done the same kind of R&D that Jason had done it.
I personally have both the spacer and ported intake from Jason. There`s been things I`ve had buyers remorse ove, but this wasn`t one of them. I`ve talked to Jason over the phone. He told me that the epoxy he uses in the regular port job. Costs him about $50 per intake he does. That to me makes the laminator a very reasonable option price wise. The laminator is molded plastic instead of epoxy. The laminator is going to get sucked out of its place. The air flow in that spot is actually pushing down on it.
I`m definitely one of those who likes making and doing things myself. This is one of those things that I don`t feel that about. Fluid dynamics is not simple. Very small changes can make big differences. Even at the throttle body opening. Jason doesn`t port it evenly all the way around. He opens it up more on the bottom than the top, because of how the air flows over the throttle plate.
the phenolic spacer I thought was expensive. Till i was told the labor time just for one. Plus the high cost of the phenolic. He has around three hours of cnc, and water jet time into each one. It`s not something stamped out .
If you do decide to do it yourself. When looking at epoxy, resistant doesn`t mean proof. You need something that is oil, gas, solvent, proof.
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