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Offline RCCDrew

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Intake manifold machining question
« on: September 13, 2012 - 02:44:35 PM »
I'm putting an rpm air gap intake on a 340 in my cuda. I don't know what's been done to the block and heads as far as machining. How can I determine if I will have to do any machining to the intake to get it to fit properly?

Thanks in advance.




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Re: Intake manifold machining question
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2012 - 01:55:17 AM »
is it hard t o figure out other than trying to bolt it  on , if you cannot get the bolts into the heads on both sides the intake is too wide

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Intake manifold machining question
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2012 - 04:12:45 AM »
Ok then.  It bolts on, I was mostly worried about a vacuum leak between the intake and head.

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Re: Intake manifold machining question
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2012 - 02:01:36 AM »
if the heads are milled to increase compression the intake will be too wide to fit easily so if it fits you should be good

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Re: Intake manifold machining question
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2012 - 07:35:40 AM »
I'm not sure about small block numbers but on a big block the rule of thumb was for every 0.030" milled off the head, 0.010" needed to be milled off the intake side.
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