How would you mate the two halves of a tunnel ram together?

[Kevin Jonker]

Rtv black says not to come in contact with fuel. I made a gasket before, but a real pain down in the port area. Anyone use a rtv sealer of any type for mating the two halves? I cannot buy the gasket anymore for the Eddy Stree tunnel ram. Thx, Kevin

 

[ocdart]

Trouble getting them to mate?
Give both halves a little privacy in a dark garage. They'll figure it out.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[moparmadduck]

The auto parts have gasket material by the roll get out your trusty scissore/e-xato knife & pencil with you coffee and open the art class

 

[duster340]

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-6999/

i have used black rtv may not be right but it worked for the time i used it, if i had had some more time on my hand i would have ordered those gaskets instead
some of the old edelbrock streettunnelrams where smartly designed since some of them used the same plenum and therefore the same gaskets

 

[lemondana]

Which STR do you have? I have a few NOS sealed in package Direct Connection STR-14 gaskets. PM me for further details

 

[lemondana]

These gaskets are for the RB intake.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Rtv black says not to come in contact with fuel. I made a gasket before, but a real pain down in the port area. Anyone use a rtv sealer of any type for mating the two halves? I cannot buy the gasket anymore for the Eddy Stree tunnel ram. Thx, Kevin

This: http://www.acehardwaresuperstore.co....html?osCsid=4d833a01bc7bd29d632df4567b770a2e

 

[DJVCUDA]

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads...ain=5946082&Words=+OhioGTX&topic=&Search=true

http://www.superformanceproducts.com/

 

[Guitar Jones]

I used the thick FelPro gasket paper and just tapped it out with a small ball peen hammer. It's old school but works just fine even today. A little practice and you'll be a professional. Pics to follow of my W5 tunnel ram set up with 2 750's. Sounds absolutely awesome and
the the throttle response is just unreal.

 

[340 8BBL]

black rtv works fine,you can trim it after it dries.also if you lay some gasket over the manifold and tap it with a rubber mallet it will leave an impression for you to cut out with an exacto knife.

 

[mguner]

Gee I just tapped mine out of a cereal box and sprayed them with coppercoat.....
Then find out if the ports in the base match the ones in the top and mate them up with a little die grinder action.

 

[Guitar Jones]

 

[inkjunkie]

Show off

 

[Kevin Jonker]

Thx for the replys, I will post pics. the intake has been ported. I like the hammer and rtv method.

 

[mguner]

Thx for the replys, I will post pics. the intake has been ported. I like the hammer and rtv method.

Tapping out gaskets is pretty old school but works great. I do have an issue with RTV around fuel though...

 

[340mopar]

I used the thick FelPro gasket paper and just tapped it out with a small ball peen hammer. It's old school but works just fine even today.

This is how I do it. There's no school like the old school.


Chuck

 

[duster340]

i just dont get it why is it that you wont buy the right gaskets since they seem to be available anyway for 7$ its not like they are to expensive... except maybe that it could take alitle time to find someone who has them in stock