-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 > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BaadAssGremlins/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: BaadAssGremlins-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/