Come on Edelbrock. Get your act together.

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While the 'compromise' on the gasket surface at the valve cover is not acceptable, I'm going to view this from the other side:

If I was a design engineer (which I still kinda am), and I knew that my intake was going on any number of factory or aftermarket heads, I would have left those ports just like that. Why try to make it fit? It's never going to fit anything perfect, so leave enough meat to work with, and leave it to the customer (and save the foundry money) to finish out as is. If you want a bolt-on, you gotta accept less than perfect. If you want perfect, you gotta have enough meat to get there.

If the foundry made them perfect for combo A, now all the combo B guys are returning it because it doesn't fit.
AND if the foundry made it perfect, the price would be up another 25%.


The difference: I'd put in the product description, "Requires port matching/grinding for maximum results with YOUR engine combo"
 
jos51700 said:
While the 'compromise' on the gasket surface at the valve cover is not acceptable, I'm going to view this from the other side:

If I was a design engineer (which I still kinda am), and I knew that my intake was going on any number of factory or aftermarket heads, I would have left those ports just like that. Why try to make it fit? It's never going to fit anything perfect, so leave enough meat to work with, and leave it to the customer (and save the foundry money) to finish out as is. If you want a bolt-on, you gotta accept less than perfect. If you want perfect, you gotta have enough meat to get there.

If the foundry made them perfect for combo A, now all the combo B guys are returning it because it doesn't fit.
AND if the foundry made it perfect, the price would be up another 25%.


The difference: I'd put in the product description, "Requires port matching/grinding for maximum results with YOUR engine combo"
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I'll go along with that, IF that's what's happening. ....and if that were the case, they'd ALL be like that. They're not.
 
IDK that Intake doesn't look new to me in the first couple Pic's.
 
I think some of you guys read half the posts half the time. I’m not explaining it again
 
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No, what I’m telling you is I can clamp ANYTHING down on a cnc that I know how to run proficiently and cut it in 1/2 the time and I’m no talking production machining. That includes MDI manual programing at the machine control interface.
 
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When you order a new Victor 340 you can expect something like this. Having to elongate the bolt holes (about .090” here) in order to slide the intake forward (in this example) in order to line the runner dividers up with the head/gasket.
Last photo shows I assume “born on date” or close to:

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Wow, that is bad. I bought one pre-pandemic and the casting was really good.
 
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