Seems folks on here like to think outside the box, so thought Id pose a question.
I have a ford 300 with stock efi, Ive been bouncing a few ideas around to put a touch on the engine that makes it "mine".
Recently I reshaped the throttle bores, then began having visions of little velocity stacks.
As it sits, there is an inch lip that sticks out past the main body of the throttle body. Easiest solution I could come up with, was to take two 3" long pieces of aluminum pipe, with a same inside diameter as my TB lips outside diameter, braze the pipe to the TB and shape by hand. I could throw money at it and get what I want and probably come close to bolting it on but Im looking for cost effective means to achieve the same goal, I have more time to spare than disposable income.
I found velocity stacks that would work, they are however extremely long and $25 each before shipping.
The intent is not performance gain, just to obtain a "look", if the stack should assist throttle response and overall driveability for some strange reason, well thats just icing on the cake.
This is a photo of the stock TB after my minor port work, the photo makes the lip of the TB appear extremely short but in reality, it protrudes out about an inche, the diameter is roughly 1.5"/42-45mm:
This is the final look I want to achieve, this is a motorcycle carb with velocity stack:
Maybe someone has some scrap aluminum pipe they could let go for little $$$
