A modification to flatheads that I saw at the drags was to fabricate an
intake manifold that allowed an exhaust pipe to be attached to the heat
riser passage in the block giving them four pipes on a side with a very
strange configuration.
Jim in Palmdale
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----- Original Message -----
From: DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com>
To: Richard Fox <v4gr@rcn.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: An Odd Question...
> Sure. Here is where I am coming from.
>
> Section II-1
> right after the engine displacement table
>
> " for reasons of ECONOMY and HISTORICAL authenticity, vintage engine
> modifications are restricted to older technology levels.....so far as
> practical."
>
> Now it seems to me that hogging out the blocks' valley and rewelding in a
> new and very sophisticated valley that lets the exhaust exit through the
top
> of the block, use of fuel injection and big honking new blower is bending
> the rules a bit to much. Even Jacls use of turbos' seem to me to be a
> stretch. And according to the program guide, both were in the same XF/BGS.
> Now none of this affects me in any way possible and I really do not care
one
> way or another. It was just a curious question to me.
>
> mayf, the red necked, ignorant desert rat in Pahrump.
> ----- Original Message -----
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