Fits like a glove. (Albeit upside down...)
Fits like a glove. (Albeit upside down...)
AJ, any chance of getting more material and doing a group buy in the future?
Also what internal diameter did you use for the spacer ports?
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I looked into doing some of these.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...sheet&_sacat=0
the material is inexpensive and can be purchased in sheets.
weird problem is they seem to come in 12 inch pieces. our intake was 13 or 14 inches across at that gasket..
So i considered making them two pieces. to save on odd material stock sizes.
either way it came out with out low volume of orders to be about 70-90 each set to make..
those look nice though. I would love to have one. wonder what the temp RSI values are of that material.
Lined up perfect with my ported manifold. I’ll take some photos when I have time.
Sometimes there is enough core shift porting to the gasket will break through the wall so you can add some material on the backside before hand. While the welder is out you can add a couple more bosses for potential direct port fuel or nitrous later on. Here is the one on JoeDuno's van back when it was "in process"
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Bummer inn the core shift, mine didnt get thin there bit I HD to lay down a third Layer of molten aluminium in some low spots today to go 60mm consistent
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Here's the spacer sitting on the lower half of my ported manifold.
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Not too shabby. Any hood clearance issues? (if you've gotten that far)
Shouldn't be, I've had one on my GLHT for years. Mine is 3/8" and I measured clearance by placing a wad of aluminum foil placed on top of the manifold and closing the hood. About 1" of clearance, IIRC.
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I was thinking of making a spacer by hand. I have a lengel intake that's going in an h body. Should I get 3/8 or 1/2 thick material?
Im thinking more is more. Still theory at this point tho. I'd go an inch (most ebay stuff seems to be metric?) if L body hood clearance wasn't an issue...
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I found 18x12x 1/2 thick g10 on the bay. I actually have a machine shop with a water jet 9 miles from my house so shot them a message.
A 2 piece gasket is right about 2 3/4 X 12 7/8, buy material so as many can fit on your stock as possible. Heck, make 4 and sell 2 of them. Once the waterjet place has the pattern entered in(my place charged me 2 hours labor for this) their CAD program, they can make as many as needed. THey charge a fee by the 1/4 hour increments but the phenolic cuts fast.
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I was thinking it would be badass to have o-ring grooves machined so I could do away with God forsaken paper gaskets but I think that would add quite a bit of expense.
with the Lengal plenium I'd consider making the spacer a simple rectangle instead of cutting it to the shape of the gasket - then it would also block the plenium from any "line of site" heat transfer from the exhaust castings below
by nature that polished aluminum can is going to collect and store heat
leaning on the polished fins on a black valve cover shows the difference in heat retension / transmission of polished parts vs black painted ones