Re: [Amc-list] intake ports, was exhaust tuning

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Sandwich Maker wrote:

> how about leaving the trough as a mounting surface?  the ports are
> pretty close to round where they enter it, right?  my idea is to
> mill a step in each port for a tube to sit in.  have the tubes go right
> through the plate that bolts to the trough and weld them to it.

Well you just gotta see the thing to believe how silly the intake 
"design" is. I know little about performance engine design; but this is 
in another class of design, literally. The "flaws" (by today's 
standards) are obvious.

When I get the head cleaned out I'll photograph it all. I can light the 
ports from inside without valves in it etc.

I'm not making fun of Nash's design. I mean, the design is from the 
30's, really. You can practically SEE the carved wooden blocks that made 
up the mold for this head, and especially the block. Everything is 
rectangular! 90 degrees here, to 90 there, square this, square that. 
We're talking close to a century ago in engineering terms.

It's increasingly clear to me, the stuff that made for the AMC merger. 
Nash seems to have had great quality, and a history of good solid 
design, but by the mid 1950's... a bit backward and stodgy, though high 
quality. Not good for then-modern marketing, but just great from a "fix 
an old car" point of view!


I didn't get the heads disassembled for drop-off today, but I will 
Thursday.

> " EFI would solve it all.
> 
> add injectors as required...

Yeah, the top plate/trough business would be easier than average to 
hack, and if the trough were only air supply, fuel distribution problems 
would disappear.
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