bluthndr
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Just curious if anyone ever researched or tried doing anything in between milling the intake off, and just using a stock "intake" with one of the "dual ram" style air horns?
I mean, there is decent access under the intake "plate" to do things to the floor or even the underside of the plate (the ceiling) to redirect more air to the outboard cylinders?
Sure milling the intake off will always be the best, but by the time you're done you're a solid $2k (at least) plus into it with lines and all, and a guy with $200 of tubing and access to a tig on the other end of the spectrum. That leaves a huge range of middle ground for something in between. I'm surprised no one (that I know of) has even experimented with casting/welding a plate with some directional "fins" (for lack of a better word) to send air to #1 and #6.
I'm talking about something like a "turtle" (open plenum, single plane carb stuff), or the way they extend the center dividers into the plenum area on really big single plane manifolds. Seems like there is something to be gained there, maybe even economically.
I'd research myself, but the only guy I know where I could get near a flow bench doesn't want to touch any of this stuff because "those heads are too damn heavy." He's an older guy who is plenty busy doing gas stuff anyways...
Just curious if anyone else had ever looked into this?
I mean, there is decent access under the intake "plate" to do things to the floor or even the underside of the plate (the ceiling) to redirect more air to the outboard cylinders?
Sure milling the intake off will always be the best, but by the time you're done you're a solid $2k (at least) plus into it with lines and all, and a guy with $200 of tubing and access to a tig on the other end of the spectrum. That leaves a huge range of middle ground for something in between. I'm surprised no one (that I know of) has even experimented with casting/welding a plate with some directional "fins" (for lack of a better word) to send air to #1 and #6.
I'm talking about something like a "turtle" (open plenum, single plane carb stuff), or the way they extend the center dividers into the plenum area on really big single plane manifolds. Seems like there is something to be gained there, maybe even economically.
I'd research myself, but the only guy I know where I could get near a flow bench doesn't want to touch any of this stuff because "those heads are too damn heavy." He's an older guy who is plenty busy doing gas stuff anyways...
Just curious if anyone else had ever looked into this?