09-22-21, 12:01 PM
markz Wrote:That's terrible about your friend. He will be in our prayers......
That intake looks just fine!
I would would not sweat the intake port alignment too much. On my Muscle Motors 528, the port alignment was terrible. I mean terrible. When I asked Mike Ware about it, he shrugged his shoulders and said don't matter, but if it makes you feel better here is some epoxy and go at it. So I did. Alignment was spot one when I was done. Zero et or mph difference. Zero. Go figure. All I can think of is that its laminar flow and the protrusions were not affecting the laminar characteristics.
Engines are strange, I took a 305 Chevy out of some guys shed, put a truck head on one side, took a used PAW (anyone remember them) cam, used a Mr G adapter to fit my Holley to a cast iron intake and could keep up with a Grand National at the track. my Z28...
Funny thing about the 305 camshaft when it first came out.. it had the same lift/duration/lobe sep as a 70's LT-1 cam, only was retarded 4 deg for emissions.. Oh yea, it flattened lobes in under 20k miles..