Re: Aluminum 6-cyl intake manifold parts

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: I was surprised to find out the 80 was still integral intake/exhaust. You 
can use the Renix exhaust header with the intake from the 2 piece units (my 
buddy had to weld a couple nuts on to lever the mounting flange with the 
intake, but it was pretty easy) You can even plumb the EGR in for fussy 
areas like CARB compliant Califaultia.


From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Aluminum 6-cyl intake manifold parts
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410062227290.3689@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Jim Blair wrote:
> A: I don't recall mine having screw in fittings? Check NAPA's BallKamp
> spinning rack or the HELP! section of the other chains. I'm pretty sure 
> the

Yeah, the newer aluminum intake is water heated/cooled (as
well as an electric heater right under the carb), so it has a
water jacket, with hose nipples. Dissimilar metals corrosion,
some seem to go worse than others. It's a really nice manifold,
with matching exhaust. EGR is on the intake, but it's really
easy to block off (mine's going on a '70). THe intake has a lot
of pipe-threaded holes for water and vacuum, it weighs almost
nothing, has big runners (mixed bag for me), Carter BBD/Weber
base pattern.

I'm putting a Carter YF on it (I can hear the groans from here)
with a Weber Redline adapter. The adapter is $37; a BBD from
nationalcarbureters.com is $160 (I have no core, the junkers
I bought from eBay and the local yard were unrebuildable). I
have like-new YFs. Carb upgrade will be a nice easy project

when the car is running.