Joe,
There is nothing wrong with anything you have.
The airgap is made for stock heads. the ports match fine there.
The Indy heads are different. They moved the intake runners and their indy intake is made to match. Also the gap at the ends of the intake are because of the taller heads and I think I remember you decked the block some too. You will need to make a 1/2" spacer out of aluminum and use silicone to seal it up. Or Just get the indy intake and your done!
I have spent 8 hours grinding on my torker intake. I ported the carb side of the plennum (5 hours) and airgapped the intake(3 hrs) I still have to match the ports like you are doing when my engine is together, That should take about another 4 hrs. I figured at the machine shops rate of $90.00/hr That's 1080.00 plus I have to have a spot welded 40.00 so that's $1120.00 and doesn't even include the cost of buying the intake!
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So I will have a 1300 dollar torker
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all for an extra 12 HP.
Good thing my machinist showed me what to do and lent me his shop to do it in.
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Even an indy intake would need the porting work, just not as agressively as the torker.
I hope you are planning on dynoin your motor??
Davis
Joe <jgray_55@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK...most likely a real stupid question...but here we
go.....My 401 is in the shop being
bored,balanced...etc. I have INDY SR heads, and an
Edelbrock RPM air-gap intake. They mocked it all up
today to check pushrod length,intake fit...etc.GOT
really
WEIRD...the intake gaskets line up just fine on
the heads..BUT are off on the intake manifold,the
manifolds ports are offset. He says the intake would
have to be welded and machined to line up correctly
with the gasket ports!! My friend who is doing the
machine work says that they run into alot of Edelbrock
port to gasket opening mis-matching?? NO quality
control????WORST DEAL.........the end rails are 5/8"
off?? There is a 5/8" gap at the point where the
intake end seals are to be????? WTF?? I know the INDY
heads are somewhere around .500 taller than stock
heads...BUT how can the intake surface fit/line up
correctly BUT the ends be that far out of whack??????
Am i missing something here..or is the manifold a
piece of @#*&(^%$#$^& ?? I have to drive one hour
tomorrow afternoon to the shop to look at this
mess(Thursday). ANY helpful info greatly appreciated.
Please email me or call my cell and leave a
message....309-338-3210.Thankyou,Joe
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