Re: SBC intake center bolt holes

[Shannen Durphey <shannen@grolen.com>]

Well, my experiences haven't been as high tech as your suggestions. 
I've cut angled spacers on a band saw, hogged the intake holes, and
installed an older manifold on newer heads.  Looked horrible, but it
worked.  I've also ground the snot out of a tbi manifold and installed
it on older heads.  Looked horrible, but it worked.  Total cost?  Less
than pennies, since the air, electricity, and aluminum tubing were
already on hand.
Shannen

KasaRyan@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Ok folks - lets say you wanted to do some mix and match with heads and
> manifolds on small block chevy's and are too cheap to spend 150 bucks on the
> right manifold, or 400 on heads.  How do you make them go together - what
> have people actually had luck with.
> 
> Option 1 - B&M - now holley - used to sell some aluminum shims and long bolts
> to make up for the angle difference.  Supposedly you just reversed the shims
> depending on which way you wanted to go (and probably hogged out the manifold
> holes) - has anyone used these, know cost or PN?
> 
> Option 2 - epoxy the holes in the heads and have a machine shop put in new
> ones at the proper angle - how much?
> 
> Option 3 epoxy all the holes and goober everything up with RTV silicone (big
> chance for leaks)
> 
> What works, what have you done, etc. - someone on the howell list was asking
> the same questions - specifically to put a tbi man on an older engine.  I
> would be more interested in going the other way - tbi heads with old manifold.
> 
> Thanks for listening to my electroyappin!
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