Some older iron.....
 

.....for those of us who like to tinker with the early Pontiac V8s.

1959 2-barrel intake - 38.5 pounds.

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1959 Tri-Power intake - 39.45 pounds, surprisingly enough just one pound more than the 2-barrel intake.

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The cast iron 1959 Tri-Power thermostat housing weighs in at 2.85 pounds, a true heavyweight with the built-in engine lifting loop.

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The Lightweight Champ.....
 

.....of all the factory iron Tri-Power intakes.

1965 Tri-Power weighing in at a scant 34.80 pounds, 36.20 pounds if including the 1.40 pound cast iron thermostat housing.

The bare 1965 intake weighs nearly 12 pounds less than the previous year 1964 intake.

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Very interesting weights - vastly different year to year.

Water pumps next?

I did not do a complete review of the intakes so this may be a second point for the Wenzler "early" aluminum Tunnel ram. 42 pounds. The Top plate is very heavy for the basic part vs say a Weiand piece.

Tom V.

My aluminum repro 66 Tripower from the Parts Place is 10 lbs bare. It has been ported,so don' know if that would make much difference.

Offenhauser 5499 dual quad intake 22lbs. Per the Butler web-site. (forgot to weigh mine before assembly)

I am gonna do this with all my ex-girlfriends. Will post up pics and weights soon!!

Those intakes may not work the greatest, but they sure look cool!! Show up at a Cars and Coffee with one of those under the hood and your getting ALL the attention.

never cease to disappoint i8... 😂

i8 is the best.

Wouldn't hurt my feelins if ya skip the hefty ones...


Frank

Let's just say the bead blasting did NOT go over well.

parts place ho intake. shipping weight 17 lbs.

1967 Firebird 400 4bbl intake
 

apologies if any repeats, but I have a few manifolds and took the time to weigh them to contribute here.

first up, a 1967 Firebird 400 4bbl intake. It has one plug on it that might take more time to remove than I had over my lunch break to take all these pics so it stayed on. otherwise, this was the heaviest manifold in my stash weighing in at 39.3 lbs.

Next, a 1969 4bbl intake. This came out of my GTO but I don’t know what it was originally from as my engine isn’t original. This one was slightly less at 38.3 lbs.

67 vs 69 Pontiac 4bbl intakes
 

Going off on a tangent- as I was doing this I got curious as to the changes between these two intakes that, at first glance, might be taken as identical. Yet, the closer I looked more I noticed the differences. quite a bit of them, actually.

- carb mounting flange shape
- groove on the 67 carb flange
- pressed in vs screw in plugs
- less pipe threaded holes drilled
- lack of casting info on the bottom
- 1 vs 2 bolt holes for the choke spring
- casting # info and locations

’71 HO 4bbl and Edelbrock Torker II
 

I also have this ’71 HO intake I’m storing for a friend (He will sell it for the right price btw) and a new Torker 2.

the ’71 weighs 13.2 lbs without the crossover and 18.8 lbs with it.

The Torker 2 weighs 14 lbs

Edelbrock Torker 2
 

additional post since I’m limited to 5 attachments per reply…

Intake
 

Been trying this setup that I installed a few weeks ago.
Definitely keeps carb and runners cooler. Motor seems really
happy with it aswell.
9799068 with seperated water crossover and repop 69
Exhaust crossover.

Gerry

FIREING. I both hate and love seeing that. :D

https://forums.maxperformanceinc.com...1&d=1710292339

LOL hadn’t noticed that. Were they all like this in ‘67, or just a small batch of them?

Small batch. I've seen several on the internet.
They're unusual, but I wouldn't call them rare.