***UPDATE***

Got a chance to run my car with the Victor intake (see 2nd & 4th post on this thread)…looks like I paid good money to slow the car down. The car was running 7.08 in the heat with tire spinning 60’ time in the 1.55’s. I now have new tires and the Victor intake on and the car ran 7.16 in the heat with a dead hook 60’ of 1.59. The car won’t pull the front end off the ground anymore…definitely lost a lot of torque…the converter was flashing to ~5100 now its ~ 4800. I tried many different shift points over the course of 2 days and it ran the fastest when I wound it up to 6500 on every shift. With the Air-gap it ran faster shifting @ ~6000. I will be switching back to the Air-gap when time permits and keeping the Victor for future upgrades.

So, at least for my combo, the Victor was not the better intake.