Something else I found. This time on intake manifolds

yellow rose said
You can’t get the oil off the crank with the skirts hanging down there. That’s was a HUGE flaw in the 99 Hemi. I know what work went into getting a pan on that thing that worked. And what a PITA it was to deal with.

In the notes I have from Bob Tarozzi he did a lot of work starting in ‘71 with KB on Hemi oiling.

He pitched a different bore spacing and raised cam TF block decades later... NHRA didn’t go for it.