Anderson Ed wrote:

Ah, Yes!  If there is anything worst than sudden silence under the cowl
its got to be silence after a big "Bang!". A big "Bang!" has that
permanent sounding - "don't bother because you can't fix a big "bang" -
air to it.  I am confident that others will develop really nice
composite intake manifolds, but guess that's one reason I did not build
a composite, just not enough confidence in my ability to get it right
the first time.  Now if I can just find a local muffler shop with a
mandrill bender....

Ed Anderson



Paul wrote:

That was a scary report from Tracy when it backfired and blew the
composite manifold apart. Opps! :-)

Paul Lamar

Ed, check the links on the ACRE newletter web site. You can buy a
lot of aluminum tubing  bends off the shelf and weld up what you need.
For example to make a 360 degree compact style runner, weld up two
180's.

Paul Lamar

 
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