Author Topic: Warning -- that hole in your intake area can really burst your buibble!  (Read 1035 times)

Offline shadango

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Just posting this as a public service announcemnet...LOL

The secondary linkage on my Edlelbrock Performer carb was missing. Now, I have been trying to flush out some driveability issues and I was thinking that linkage could help.

It finally came in the mail yesterday....and I found it when I got home from work.....WOOHOO!

So of course, like a kid at Christmas I tore open the box (summit ships a 3"x6" package in a 12"x10" box.....go figure!).....didnt even change out of my workclothes.

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Well, I was in the middle of figuring out which way the linkage goes on and it slipped and fell......ever hear the sound that one of those pachinko machines make?  I heard that linkage fall into that half-round hole where my eddy performer intake manifold meets the head on either side.....  :bricks1:     :banghead:

Well, after some colorful language on my part   :swear: , I got out the magnet-on-a-stick and started fishing.

That didnt work so then I went and go my magnet on a bendy-stick.

No instant joy either...but eventually , somehow, and with lots of praying, IT CONNECTED and I fished it back to the surface.   :angelwings:

Needless to say I will remember to cover that area with a rag in the future!

So anyways, why are those holes there?   Saw a 73 Duster with a 340 that had a Mopar intake and the same exact holes.....is it for heat transfer or something?




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They are there to help the carb warm up on cold days. They work against you in hot weather and can make fuel boil in Edelbock carbs. I would like to block mine but dont want to have to pull the intake. 
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Offline Chryco Psycho

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there are just an air gap to allow heat to escape , it prevents overheating the rest of the head

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Offline shadango

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So do I have what has been referred to as a "air gap" mainfold then??

Offline HP2

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Only if you have an edelbrock 7576 manifold. Air gap intake refers to the gap that is under the manifold and above the camshaft valley. Like a big block intake only on a small block.

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been there done that.

In fact, I dropped a holly accell pump cam down there last week.  :banghead: I gave up trying to get it out (it was a spare anyway), so I left it there to die a horribel death. :roflsmiley:

It is a realy PITA at times.

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Offline shadango

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So I am not the only one!  God I feel better!  LOL

I have been covering those holes with rags now whenever I am working under there...LOL

I guess thats just dead space, eh?  No harm in leaving it?

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it was open from the factory so yeah leave it open

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I think I've lost more than a few nuts down that hole...

Wait a minute, what did I just say??    :lol:

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That dont sound right...LOL    :eek2:

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Re: Warning -- that hole in your intake area can really burst your buibble!
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2009 - 08:31:32 AM »
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