Edelbrock Intake Issue
@cpearce It’s probably safe to say we all have fought with this at one time or another. I did early on with the first few Mopars I’ve owned and have worked on for someone else where the thermostat housing was removed and reinstalled somewhere along the way. Almost all of them had slathered and smeared on red or blue silicone, bolts that were sometimes too long, miss matched, cranked down, and especially stamped housings that were deformed from over tightening. Pitting on the intakes mating surface as well. I used one of those smaller magnum sized Billet Specialties o-ring housings ootb on an M1 and it didn’t leak ever. Pretty sure that’s the only one (style) you can slap on and forget about it. Anything else I do as I mentioned earlier.
Here’s a new cheap cast aluminum housing for an LA that needed the flat surface sanding to make it uniform. It was not truly flat ootb.
@cpearce It’s probably safe to say we all have fought with this at one time or another. I did early on with the first few Mopars I’ve owned and have worked on for someone else where the thermostat housing was removed and reinstalled somewhere along the way. Almost all of them had slathered and smeared on red or blue silicone, bolts that were sometimes too long, miss matched, cranked down, and especially stamped housings that were deformed from over tightening. Pitting on the intakes mating surface as well. I used one of those smaller magnum sized Billet Specialties o-ring housings ootb on an M1 and it didn’t leak ever. Pretty sure that’s the only one (style) you can slap on and forget about it. Anything else I do as I mentioned earlier.
Here’s a new cheap cast aluminum housing for an LA that needed the flat surface sanding to make it uniform. It was not truly flat ootb.