Valvebounce
Well-Known Member
My apologies if this has been thrashed out before.
I should preface this by saying vehicles equipped with these manifolds were never sold new in my corner of the world. So I've never set eyes on one IRL.
Recovering from a surgery, I've spent far to long watching you tube videos, and reading how-to tutorials.
Out of curiosity I watched a couple about this intake. (Freiburger mentioned one a video I watched, which drew me down that rabbithole)
One chap on you tube posted a great video showing all the nooks and crannies in great detail.
Maybe it was the pain killers, but what leapt out at me watching that video was, how easy it would be to strap on the the mill, and machine the top out of it.
Then make a mating flange, and TIG weld it to the open hole you'd made in the top.
Then it would be a breeze to attach something like this- https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006330443848.html on top,
Depending on what the junkyard stock is like where you are, a used one might be cheaper.
Since the manifold already has provision for injectors, it's a short leap to run efi.
And since the milling out would remove where the intake runners cross over, it's not a stretch to put in a false floor/blanking plate which would both reduce plenum volume, and plug off the redundant halves of the runners.
I'd sorta assumed that these would be worth nothing? But the only ones I saw for sale, the sellers were asking g more than you'd pay for a semi decent 4nnl manifold.
/go figure......
I should preface this by saying vehicles equipped with these manifolds were never sold new in my corner of the world. So I've never set eyes on one IRL.
Recovering from a surgery, I've spent far to long watching you tube videos, and reading how-to tutorials.
Out of curiosity I watched a couple about this intake. (Freiburger mentioned one a video I watched, which drew me down that rabbithole)
One chap on you tube posted a great video showing all the nooks and crannies in great detail.
Maybe it was the pain killers, but what leapt out at me watching that video was, how easy it would be to strap on the the mill, and machine the top out of it.
Then make a mating flange, and TIG weld it to the open hole you'd made in the top.
Then it would be a breeze to attach something like this- https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006330443848.html on top,
Depending on what the junkyard stock is like where you are, a used one might be cheaper.
Since the manifold already has provision for injectors, it's a short leap to run efi.
And since the milling out would remove where the intake runners cross over, it's not a stretch to put in a false floor/blanking plate which would both reduce plenum volume, and plug off the redundant halves of the runners.
I'd sorta assumed that these would be worth nothing? But the only ones I saw for sale, the sellers were asking g more than you'd pay for a semi decent 4nnl manifold.
/go figure......
Ha! this is soo funny and odd 
, that this topic and I was brought up... lol As I am in the pulmonary stages of sourcing parts to do this again just this time on a gen3 hemi...
