Been pokin around on the Snabb site for about an hour.
Very happy to see that it's right in Ithaca NY! Now if only I still lived in Cortland....
I'm confused as to the intake they are selling. Is the intake manifold simply an 850 non-turbo manifold? As in, one of the 5 I see every time I go to the junkyard? If so, it would be wayyy cheaper to buy the surrounding parts from them (larger throttle body, hoses, linkage....you get it) and just grab the NA manifold from the yard next time I go pokin around.
More importantly:
The debate part of my question is this-
If the NA manifold has better flow.... why would Volvo purposefully use a restrictive one on turbo models?
BTW my car is an LPT. I'm assuming that means I still have the same intake as a T5 or any other 850 turbo model, but I honestly wouldn't know. This is my 1st and only FWD jobber.