They must punch the mounting holes out at the shooting range. And not be a very good shot. Damn.
New Victor340 intake from Jegs
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You should flow it on a head like it is for the heck of it. For those OTTB guys!
You should flow it on a head like it is for the heck of it. For those OTTB guys!
You wouldn’t believe how close I came to ordering one of these today. Can you post up the picture of the mods you did to yours again.
Ok I called Edelbrock and talked to Heather and she sounds like a very nice lady. And icing on the cake she’s a Mopar lover. I gave her a link to our website so she may drop in. During our conversation I sent her pictures of this new intake and the bolt hole issues. She is going to bring attention to this and get back to me.
mopowers
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Where are those Edelbrock intakes cast? I thought they were born in the USA?? If so, that's just pathetic.
PRH
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The plenum opening looks like it’s closer to the carb gasket than I expected.
33IMP
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I did. Was waiting......
Please excuse the stupid question, but does that intake gasket match the cylinder head well?
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The two Mr Gasket Ultra-Seal (5840) gaskets lined up on the flange using the bolt holes originally looked about the same as in your pictures.
On mine there is no way to line the dividers of the gaskets up equally for both flange sides without having gasket overhanging into a runner.
Striking as best a happy medium in my case I slid each gasket equally so the short walls of the inner runners pretty much lined up and then the divider walls somewhat lined up, still off though. And then I needed to elongate the bolt holes about .090”
So on for runners 3/5/4/6 I have gasket slightly overhanging their long side walls about .058” I didn’t grind in the dividers other than enlarging the corners to match and roughing up the finish.
Shown below after ported,the windows opened up with the gasket placed approximately where it would lay without the bolt holes being elongated and how much the gasket sticks into the port. And the drill bit represents where the original holes are.
As mentioned earlier, your pics are what I saw with mine OOTB
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I use Mr Gasket Ultra-Seal and/or FelPro 1213 and never an issue on my TF’s (used on Action Plus on other heads, and MP SP, AG etc)
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Maybe ill use my torker you all call door stops
seems when i searched the threads
they guys that buy them run 11s and loved the intake
as well as a few others
it had instanst response when i used it
also a stock 340 notch nothing more then a tm5 and 700 dp 13.1@104 bracket raced for years
how can they make chit so badly and sell it
thats a joke
seems when i searched the threads
they guys that buy them run 11s and loved the intake
as well as a few others
it had instanst response when i used it
also a stock 340 notch nothing more then a tm5 and 700 dp 13.1@104 bracket raced for years
how can they make chit so badly and sell it
thats a joke
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Yes.............the Edelbrock I fondly remember.
justinp61
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The only problem with that is if the heads are port matched to the gaskets and you slot the bolt holes in the gasket so it matches the intake you still have a misalignment. If the heads are gasket matched the intake will have to be port matched too.
Slot the holes in the gaskets? No. I guess I may have explained things in a confusing manner. Rereading my post yeah it is. There’s no cutting or moving the gasket obviously. Properly stated, the actual intakes bolt holes are elongated to be able to move it, in my case forward so it lines up with the gasket which lines up with the head ports. I’ve had a few intakes (gasket/port matched) on my TF heads and haven’t had any mismatch: roof, floor or sides. This is the only intake that needed the holes elongated in order to match up. I had a new Victor 340 I bought and ported late 2021 and it was fine, other than dinky ports. This newest casting is something entirely different.
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Perfectly. I ported my heads to it and two sets of Edelbrock heads and a set of Speedmaster heads for customers.
mopardude318
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Wow!! Holy. Crap!
MidnightSwinger
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Makes me want to check my Trick Flow I have tucked away.
Rat Bastid
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That TF intake is GARBAGE.
I take scrap but right now scrap prices are low so we’ll have to work something out on that.
Surely I jest. That manifold is a unicorn. Wish I had one to play with.
MidnightSwinger
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******! You had me going, I was like “what now?!?”
So what is the proper way to fix that misalignment?
Only fix I see is opening up the holes so everything can be lined up properly. Here’s the exact same gasket on the same customers heads.
TT5.9mag
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If we had an LOL button…….
Richard Sweet
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It doesn't seem like using the gasket as a pattern is a good idea. I'd think that the head ports would be better to use as a pattern, then checking the intake with the heads and make sure the intake gasket is good for both. Just my opinion, don't know how to actually do it. It'll be interesting to hear what Edelbrock says about their heads, intakes and gaskets. Thanks for the thread.
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if its new return it thats ridiculous
Customer wants to race this year. We will address the issues and fix it. If he bought a used one it could just have hogged out holes like the one we are trying to replace.
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