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Old November 27th, 2002, 09:38 AM
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Question intake material
anyone know what type of material the stock intake is made out of?
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Old November 27th, 2002, 11:05 AM
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Aluminum. Crappy aluminum, but still aluminum.
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Old November 27th, 2002, 05:26 PM
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Aluminum, but it seems slightly different than the 86-87 manifolds. Using the same dremel to port both styles, the shavings were different between the two. A ran into a few big air pockets in the casting when I was porting it.
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Old November 27th, 2002, 06:38 PM
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so what did you do about the air pockets? will they affect air flow?
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