quote:Originally posted by PanteraDoug: I just wanted to point out that there is a Ford Motorsport version of the Edelbrock Torker that was made for the A3 heads......I would have to think the A341 should do even better?
I’m not aware of a Ford high port intake with the A341 designation but there is one like you describe designated M-9424-A331. There is also a completely different Ford high port intake that bares that same part number but it is a tall air gap, open plenum, single plane, usually has "Jack Roush Engineering" cast on the #1 runner, and is similar in appearance to most the other Ford high port intakes.
The vast majority of the Torker style A331 intakes were cast with ports to match A3s but there were others cast to match the smaller high port C3/C302/C302B and maybe B3 ports. I own several and one of the smaller port versions which I’m sure you will remember. I’ve also owned several that were B3 port size but they may have just been the small port version ported to the intermediate B3 port size.
They are low profile and will fit under the Pantera engine screen however, they do have an angled carb pad so best if run in a Pantera with a leveling wedge plate or milling and re-drilling flat carb pad. They can be a good performing intake for higher rpm engines do to their relatively short runners, and actually pretty good all around, but in most all cases I’ve seen they respond very well to the addition of a 1-1.5” carb spacer.
A 4V Torker can be filled to very closely approximate this intake and fit to high port heads with the use of a thick gasket and opening the mounting holes a bit. It’s a lot of work but an ordinary Torkers can be routinely bought for $150 or less and the A331s are quite rare and valued.
Though a 4V Torker can be adapted to high port heads as described above, an A331 will not adapt well to a 4V head. Though the roof of the A331 runner can be filled slightly to match a 4V, there is not enough intake flange on the A331 to seal on the lower part of a 4V intake port unless the lower portion of the 4V port is stuffed with enough integrity to hold a compressed gasket, and in this case, will require a modified high port gasket, as a 4V gasket won’t cut it.
Best,
K