This is our latest thinking on the intake manifold.
 It has up sides and down sides. One down side is it
 requires four tubing bends at about $10 to $12 bucks each.
 The tubing bends are cut with a 1/2 inch straight section
 so they can be bonded or welded to the casting.

 The up side is it can be ported with a die grinder to match
 the 1993 and later turbo engine's larger ports. The wall thickness
 will be about 3/8 of an inch to accommodate this.

 It is somewhat cheaper to make the casting and a lot simpler
 to make the pattern. We think but are not entirely sure about this
 yet.

 The dimensions on this drawing are not the gospel truth.
 We are working on new drawings.

 What do you all think?

 Paul Lamar

Paul,
As I take it, the curved tubes in the drawing are the solid plugs that make
the interior of the manifold (i.e. they keep the aluminum away from where
they are). If so, then the manifold plate as shown in the drawing really
needs to be a recessed block that gets "filled" with aluminum to make the
manifold, or are you using the aluminum plate that Jon Lauter had fabricated
as a base to weld / bond the cast curved tubes into?

Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser #4045

The flange will be cast on. The drawing is wrong and misleading in that
regard. We are working on better drawings.

Paul Lamar
 
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