I’ll see what the guy porting the heads has to say about using the spacer or not. Or run it this year without the next year with. Kim
Intake porting/blending
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yellow rose
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Looking at this again, I would run the spacer (its not really a spacer, it’s an anti-reversion/shear plate) and I’d take the plenum all the way out so that none of that rail around the outside of the plate is covered by the flange.
You may not see any HP on the dyno, but any time you can help direct the air/fuel where you want it and reduce exit losses at the carb is a good thing.
Personally I hate the word “Butchered” and a slight more since you don’t know for sure if the mods are good or not. Extended runners are done to help fuel air distribution and normally add torque. At this point, it takes away from the plenum. Adding a spacer or spacers could be a good thing.
MoPar never sold intakes with extended runners.
I hear you, but I think you may agree with me on this particular example as being “butchered”!
Hallzy
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are you going to the porter that did mine? Strongarm? I'm going to take my victor intake there and get it done curious to see your results
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Yes, I’ll be dropping off my stuff next week. Thanks for the recommendation. Kim
Hallzy
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No problem he's a good guy does nice work
Looks horrible and poorly done, however, how does it work!?
yellow rose
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I hear you, but I think you may agree with me on this particular example as being “butchered”!
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I’ve seen a dozen or so heads where the flattened the floor like that, tested 3 of them and never figured out what they were doing except chasing volume. Certainly didn’t hurt anything and I’ll be looking into it again when I do my W2 junk.
Don’t know if they hurt the manifold or not. If they did, it’s easily repairable.
You likely see that’s the roof of the intake runners that are squared (flattened) I got it for free from an engine shop that couldn’t just dumpster it, I was just gonna pay it forward to someone else but decided to hang onto it, blast it clean, clean up the plenum runners as best possible when I finish up other stuff, and see what I end up with.
yellow rose
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Yep, my bad...I thought roof and typed floor. They square off the roof and leave the floor round.
I made mine square. I needed the volume. I may pull one of those junkers out and pour an intake port because I don’t remember where they ended up. In fact, I will do it because I need to pull one out and cut it up before I start porting my other W2’s. So I’ll pour a port and see where I ended up.
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