Currently I have a Torker II intake on top of my 454. It is in relatively mild tune, it put out 310 rear wheel horsepower and 555 ft. lbs. of torque on a chassis dyno. My question is this. Would I be better off all around going with the Air Gap RPM manifold or staying with my Torker? I have an LS6 solid cam and 781 oval ports with SS valves, headers and h-pipe. Right now I have too much power for the 9" rear tires and 3.73 limited slip. My top end is incredible though - it pulls like a rocketship from 3500-6500. Would I be adding too much power down low where I can't use it anyway with a dual plane? Would it kill my top end? It's just that I've heard so much about how good the RPM air gap is on big blocks that I was wondering if it would fit my combination, or hinder it.

id say, put the rpm air, on it and put a posi in it, 3.73 or 3.43 or something, if you dont want it to scream on the highway at 4 grand. would help youre hooking up problem and i think the rpm airgap is a better design. just my opinion

I think the RPM intake gives the engine a boarder powercurve. I don't see it killing your top end, but it may not give the power there like a the torker.

What are your goals? Do you have a timeslip for your combo? Sounds like you need some drag radials or something sticky to get that 310 rwhp to the ground (nice #'s BTW graemlins/thumbsup.gif )

If you're not a drag racer and not looking for improved ET's,stay with your Torker.You'll need some sticky tires like I mentioned if you do bolt on an RPM to deal with all the new found torque you'll get from running a dual plane intake.

with that low of hp output and that much torque output, i'd say you have more than enough gear. how about the convertor? what cam do you have? what kind of tires do you have? what rpm was the peak torque and peak hp made?
i will say that an rpm air-gap would probably help in every aspect, bottomend, mid-range, topend, drivability, manifold vacuum, but how much i'm not sure. worth buying and changing? maybe, maybe not. first thing you need to do is get the car to hook up the power that you have now, then worry about the intake. ;)

IMO the air gap woke my cam up. I have a CC XE268H. When first installed I had a "torker II" graemlins/sad.gif then changed to the "air gap" :D .
No #'s to back it up but seat of the pants said I had done the right thing graemlins/thumbsup.gif .

Got to put it on a chassis dyno this year and got 465ft-lb @3000rpm and 329hp @4800-4900.

Got my first 12 second pass (12.84 graemlins/hurray.gif ) on regular street tires(28"tall), 3:31 gears, though the mufflers and a 750 cfm vacuum carb.
This was not the pass in my signature which was my first ever 12 second pass.