Re: [AMC-list] A couple questions.

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

well, I only used the reinventing the wheel phrase because I know of at least 3 other guys who have done it. One on TheAMCforum.com, user name is 327rebel or similar.
  He can tell you the pitfalls and the whos its whats its.
If you're going for it, sell the intake you have and get an airgap, much easier to cut up.

  Don't pay any attention to me right now, been a real PIA around here that last couple of weeks, and the more I fix the more things break! Dammitttt.

  I would sell you a factory intake for $150  :-O  how many do you need? need a 287? how about a core 327 to bore & stroke? Stop by and pick some parts some time, :-)  LOL...
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

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> From: "russ hathaway" <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Rambler Nash Jeep and familyAMC" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:30:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] A couple questions.
> Yeah, basically you are cutting the manny to resemble the stock 327,
> leaving the Vally pan, crossover and dist in place. I seem to remember
> seeing a manny done up back in the day, and he had a weld bead running
> around the bottom where he cut away meat and sealed up the runners.
> Now you all got me looking at this dual 4 Manny I have sitting on the
> shelf. With the head work the guy had done, maybe.....
> Mark, come on. That's what this hobby, or lifestyle, is all about. The
> first guy to hook up a Lincoln tranny to his Ford or drop in a Jag
> rear end to his Stude, you think he was reinventing the wheel. He was
> just doing it to see what would happen.
> It may or may not improve, but I'm gonna do it "just to see". You may
> have been one of the few who said the AMC 20 brakes wouldn't fit on my
> 15, but I wanted to see if they would and they do, I have been running
> them for about 6 years now.
> The cost may be more than the $250 the guy out on the East coast wants
> for a stock 4V manny, and the performance may not be that much better,
> but I would rather spend my dough seeing what works and what don't,
> rather than mail off a check and wait for a bolt-on piece. If there
> was someone who didn't think these things are gold and was reasonable
> in their cost, I wouldn't be going this route. The cheapest I have run
> across a manny is $250. I've seen 2x4 390 mannys go for that amount.
> I don't require all out, balls to the wall performance anymore, I have
> had my day in the sun. I just want good street manners. And as far as
> that being a wow factor, isn't that what we all want and seek. If not,
> then take that silly chrome air cleaner off your car (all my cars run
> that air cleaner, by the way).
> Reinventing the wheel? Maybe just rearranging the spokes. I gotta do
> my thing and my garage is full of things that worked, and things that
> didn't.....Russ
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