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Super cool Mike. I am happy to see that someone is finally trying
to convert a six port to a four port. Good work. I think it is going
to set a record for HP from a side port aircraft engine. Great.

Ok Tom this is why we need plenty of wall thickness meat around those
intake runners so people can port the manifold for this level of engine
porting.

Paul Lamar

Zounds!  Them are some big ports!  OK Paul, I get the idea now.  Lots of
metal around the runner cores.  Gotcha.  It'll make my job easier anyways...
don't have to sweat to get tight tolerances with thick walls!

By-the-by everybody:  I'm definitely making the patterns, but I'ld hardly
claim to be "well along".  One core box smoothed out and started putting on
the finish tonight.  By the end of the week I'll have tested it by making a
plaster cast, and hopefully run it under the (approving?) eyes of the
foundry.  Three more core boxes for runners at about one per week, one main
pattern (two weeks?), and one big core box for the cover core (two more
weeks?).  Say two months until we get our first test pour.

Tom Kendall

 
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