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Offline sprecks

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Shaker baseplate question
« on: January 01, 2009 - 06:58:28 PM »
I'm putting a shaker hood on my vert. The car has a 426 hemi in it with a single 4 barrel. The question is what baseplate do I need to get? Will I need the 340, 383, 440 or do I need to make something special? Thanks for any suggestions. Jay
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Re: Shaker baseplate question
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2009 - 08:13:38 PM »
I would think either the 440  4 bbl , not sure how high the Hemi is by comparision but you will want it short , the people who sell these should have a good idea




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Re: Shaker baseplate question
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2009 - 09:05:44 PM »
I would think either the 440  4 bbl , not sure how high the Hemi is by comparision but you will want it short , the people who sell these should have a good idea




Thanks, I'll make some calls.
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Re: Shaker baseplate question
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2009 - 10:26:11 PM »
I've has issue with this since I got my car. I dont know what was used originally, but it was hacked to acomidate (sorry cant spell) the holley DP. So we made a base from another air cleaner base we had laying around. I am running the mopar intake with the flat paper gasket and still have a bit of a rubbing issue. That is the shaker bubble rubbing under the hood, please post what you find out!!
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Re: Shaker baseplate question
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2009 - 11:49:03 PM »
Ditch the single four-barrel and get a Stage V intake and dual Carter/Edelbrocks.

FHO has the baseplate already made up for this setup.  They sell the intake too for a good price.

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Re: Shaker baseplate question
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2009 - 07:46:59 AM »
Ditch the single four-barrel and get a Stage V intake and dual Carter/Edelbrocks.

FHO has the baseplate already made up for this setup.  They sell the intake too for a good price.

www.forhemisonly.com

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I'll check into this option too. Thanks for the link. I wanted to go with the dual edelbrocks in the first place but didn't want to get into making a baseplate if I could avoid it.
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Re: Shaker baseplate question
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2009 - 12:06:00 PM »
there 2 other things to consider , if you are going with eddy carbs use the AVS Thunder series , they are far better than the Afb
there is also a spread dual 4 bbl intake that will take Holleys , that would be my choice & I believe there si a shaker base made for them as well

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