Hey Barry, did you run those on a vehicle, and if so how did they perform?
Just asking for a friend...
TomK
Just asking for a friend...
TomK
I found the small port M/T Power Ram for sale on ebay about 2 years ago. Probably made a big mistake not buying it. Its now on another street car. I guess that is where M/T Power Ram's go to die. The street.I can’t help but thinking there had to have been more than 50 of these made. Ive owned two in my days here on earth. I don’t think they would have even gotten there r&d and tooling money back with those numbers.
I found the small port M/T Power Ram for sale on ebay about 2 years ago. Probably made a big mistake not buying it. Its now on another street car. I guess that is where M/T Power Ram's go to die. The street.
http://www.348-409.com/forum/threads/crossram-m-t-348-dual-quad.40081/I did not know they made a small port M/T crossram
Spirited grocery getter. The wagon may get more spirit with a new engine/trans for the track this summer but it will also have a full interior and a 3rd row seat in it.You just learned how to drive a race car on the street.
I've kinda got mixed emotions on this. I probably would never do that because I generally like to preserve stuff, especially if it works OK as-is. But sometimes, I can't help myself and I feel like tinkering with something just because I think it needs improvement. Now, I don't know whose intake that is, but it does belong to them, for better or worse. So let them have at it. Maybe it's just a learning experience. Maybe it's a mistake. On the other hand, I doubt that Mickey T was very skilled at manifold design, either, nothing designed in that era looks too good today. Maybe it will make an improvement?
As far as the need for a CNC machine to make it all uniform, I'm not so sure about that, either. Many great hot rod parts were built, both by companies and by individuals, using common sense and the equipment they had on hand, long before anyone could spell CNC. And I would be willing to bet that there are some really good head porters out there (I know a couple from my own experience) that hand-finish everything. After all, our sport doesn't survive in fully-equipped machine shops, more likely in whatever garages and spaces we have available.
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So here are a couple of pics of an intake I just pulled off my Nova. It's not really either a single plane, nor is it a dual-plane like most 180* dual-planes, maybe it's kind of a cross-ram. Did it work? Ran fine when things got warmed up. I won't modify it because somebody might want it as-is, and the designer forgot more about manifolds than I will ever know. Maybe it doesn't measure up to today's performance levels? I have no idea, mine never saw a dyno or a track. It did get a lot of comments. Sometimes it's hard to say what might work and what might not. A lot of times, someone else can show you a better or cleaner way to accomplish whatever it is you are trying to do.
My point is that most of the people on this site can do some amazing things based on common sense, practical experience and basic tools. That is the basis of our "sport" much as it was back in the 50s and 60s. I also know for every successful "hack", as they are called today, there are probably 5 or 6 failures we don't know about!