Hey Guys, I'm more kind of a silent reader, collecting ideas, asking silly questions and learning. but now I got something that might be interesting for you so i wanna give a little bit back to the community some time ago i bought an old dog bone intake here on the hamb. No bone on it just a cap. being curious i wanted to look under it and then stuff fell apart. Badly helicoiled as it was it wasn't possible to screw it back together. ok so let's fix that thing as they are no so often found. Bored out the helis, parts broke of,a mess bigger than expected welded some aluminum into it and filed it down by hand, taking care of keeping it level to the carbs mounting surface cause if i find a bone i wanna use it. this is when i took the first photo
drilled out the rest of a helicoil from the cap. Finally not that bad... Maybe will blast it and bolts need some patina
...and this is where its gonna go, replacing the actually mounted Navarro "super" dual, paired with new Navarro heads on my French Flatty
kinda wish i had one , but they are available, its the heat spreader for the exhaust gases which bolts on top of it and goes even under the carbs. There are other threads with picshere on the hamb
Looks like it might be good for us guys up here in Minnesoooota if we drive our hot rods in the winter!
Think I have the same intake - that was made into a three / two......but lucky to get the real deal as well... pics later...
ok, got some more progress onmy favorite intake. Someone, whysoever, cut up the gen-mount so i tried to rebuild it. Made some filler pieces, but they really welded up crappy finally welded everything shut with welding rod. yes i know i´m not the greatest aluminum welder in the world. but hey i´m a hell of a grinder and cut it down on the mill yeah not really where i wanted it...
so lets put some more rods in that poor old thing after the second "mill" i liked it a lot more blasted it finally and it looked a lot better found some interesting little holes in the carb bases. Don´t know what they are good for. Maybe somebody knows?
Wow! Really awesome work there! Love to see the talent on here- especially to save something that most would consider un-savable.