<VV> New heads, an approach...

[Tony Underwood]

At 03:25 PM 7/12/2009, Bruce Schug wrote:

>I understand your rational for this, but I wonder, it seems like
>eliminating the cast-on manifold would simplify the head casting quite
>a bit. This might be reason enough to make the head without intake
>manifolds. Then, separate manifolds could be made for a variety of
>induction systems.


Anyone who actually acquires a pair of these heads is likely going to 
have their own ideas on induction.


Anyone with a mig welder and a garage equipped with standard gearhead 
junk and some time could cook up their own style of intake to  fit a 
head with nothing but flange faces instead of a cast-in intake.



>If you cast the manifold on the head, somebody's still going to make a
>manifold for


...and end up cutting the cast-on intake off anyway.


Overall, it seems simpler to me to cast the heads sans intakes, then
>offer at least a manifold for Webers, 6-1 4bbl, and 4-1's. As
>expensive as this head would be, I doubt that many would use 2-1's
>with it.



Agreed.   If someone is dedicated enough to buy such heads they're 
unlikely to have any issues with picking out a separate intake to 
match their carburetion of choice.    Or, they would be making their 
own.   I've seen more than one home-made tunnel ram on dragrace cars 
made from exhaust tubing.




tony..