The mules intake

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The Mule's manfold would be expensive to duplicate; correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it a Kinsler lower half (individual runner/butterfly) with aluminum plenum boxes up top?

To build something similar, but not an individual runner base, (see pictures in Jody's thread here for a similar concept: https://www.pro-touring.com/forum_main.htm) based on other manifolds I've speced out and ordered at a friend's shop, including throttle bodies and fuel rails Hogan's would charge about $3000 for a similar setup. Hogan's does nice work, but so does HRE Induction Specialties, Wilson Manifolds, and a few others.

Pretty much anyone with good sheetmetal working skills, the necessary metal working equipment, and the ability to weld aluminum could build a sheetmetal intake for you, but outfits that do it on a regular basis have data, history, assembly jigs and fixturing, and working knowledge of runner length/cross section/velocity properties, plenum volume, etc, and can design not only a good looking manifold but a very effective one for your application. For example, Hogan's has a pile of templates on hand with various port configurations. You can call up and order just about any oddball thing out there and if you give him good measurements (deck height, etc) the thing will bolt up and be nearly perfectly port matched right out of the box.

If you wanted to totally duplicate the Mule's setup with the individual runners/butterflies you're probably looking at about $5000 between the intake base and the sheetmetal plenums.

Troy