[BaadAssGremlins] Re: INDY heads/RPM Air-Gap...mismatch???? HUGE gap on the ...

["jgray_55" <jgray_55@xxxxxxxxx>]

-YEP!! Gonna call em today. This is getting REAL expensive...just in 
parts alone! Luckily my friend is helping with the machine work  
labor.Just heard back from Randy Guynn. I knew the heads were 
thicker....400 thousandths or so. The thickness is at the head gasket 
area..so they ARE taller.The INDY intake has more material at the end 
seal area to fill the gap!! BUT...when you look up the SR head kit in 
the INDY catalog...it states.."will accept any  STOCK or aftermarket 
intake manifold"!!SO..being  un educated on INDY heads quirks...(read 
that dumbass).....i "ASSUMED" that my BRAND NEW Edelbrock airgap  
would bolt right  up and work! Wouldn't you ASSUME that one would 
bolt up and work, after the way the catalog stated it???? I've been 
collecting pieces to do my 401 for about two years..wish i had known 
more about the INDY heads!!!! Live and learn..but it gets expensive. 
Joe-- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, baadass73gremlin@... wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 3/23/2006 12:12:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> jgray_55@... writes:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Joe,you may have been better off going with the matching Indy 
intake.
> Bart
>







 
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