The '76 Spit that I recently got is equipped with one of these air injection
manifolds. I have no intention of connecting up the airpump when I transplant
this engine into my '78. My plan is to remove the manifold and simply install
small bolts into the holes in the head that the manifold was attached to.
Anyone see any problem with this plan? There is no emission testing here in
Hawaii to worry about.
David Gates
Hawaii
'73 Spitfire 1500 (Daily driver)
'78 Spitfire 1500 (working on this one)
'76 Spitfire 1500 (just acquired, probably going to be a parts car)
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>The heads are interchangeable but not the same. The main difference
>in Spit 1500 heads through the years has to do with the air injection
>system(s) fitted. '74 had no air injection. '75-'76 had an air
>distribution manifold which injected air into each cyl port.
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