who makes composite intake manifolds?

[sc2dave]

for sbc or 4 or 6cyl engines?

[iadr]

define composite as either thin shell carbon fiber or as the type of material used for aftermarket (and Oe) Chevy LSX stuff.

Also "makes?" means you are looking for a manufacturer of a custom one? For that I can say right off the bat you are most likely going to have to go to England for.
Larry Widmer of Endyn reported he could not keep the "AIR" CF manufactured ones in production due to defense contracts for CF paying 5 times plus what civvy contracts could

[sc2dave]

any manifold that is not aluminum or iron. Any manufacturer. I saw one in one the the latest hot-rod mags

[Competition Engines]

Wilson Manifolds is making a composite intake for SBC.

[automotive breath]

Thanks Scott, Nice looking manifold!

[Greg D]

Now that's what I'm talking about! Now if only they made one for the BBC.

[Gaby@Wilson]

We are working on a BBC version for this year.

The sbc composite should be ready to go in a couple of weeks. We are finalizing pricing, gaskets, fasteners, etc.

[Troy Patterson]

Nice composite

Troy Patterson TMPCarbs.net TMP Carbs

[iadr]

FWIW, I wasn't just throwing in a post as I did to be difficult. I surmised that the poster was carrying on with this plan mentioned in a previous thread (yeah, I am between jobs, and manage to keep track of who's who on here, and what their projects are, though lately it's getting busier and busier!)
> old post viewtopic.php?t=1142&highlight=

What I imagined he sought: http://hem.bredband.net/frenet/6/index.htm

Here's a thread on an English forum from a guy who's actually more comfortable with carbon fiber than he is with welding... pics are bottom of page 1 and top of page 2:
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2310


FWIW, alternates to metal have been tried on high end drag stuff, and found undesireable...

[mord50]

That is one good looking intake....where can you get soecs for this intake we are presently using a team g air gap part#7531 and would like to know if this Wilson will be an inprovement....we have a 355 cid with 750 barry grant dr carb w .630 solid roller crane cam and presently run in the 10's

[SchmidtMotorWorks]

We are working on a BBC version for this year.

The sbc composite should be ready to go in a couple of weeks. We are finalizing pricing, gaskets, fasteners, etc.

What is the reason for going composite and modular?

Did you consider lost foam? I think the tooling cost would be about the same, the accuracy similar, the sealing problems non existent.

[95ttoplt1]

Dragging this back up, how are these intakes comming? Are they released yet??

And what about modifying these for EFI use??

Any measurements on these?ie runner length, plenum volume ect??

Troy