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Originally Posted by PAUL K
I believe the manufacturer called it good by including a note stating the valve seat may fall out if the head is ported.... That was a simpler fix.
Remember all the folks that got there panties wadded up over the core shift issues with the reproduction intake manifolds.... That was funny.
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With good reason. My post will be about the reproduction intake manifolds. Not going to discuss the above comment in any way
since I was involved directly in Chris C Tri-Power aluminum intakes.
A Bit of history:
Barry Grant did a Pontiac Tri-power intake many years ago.
A PY Member bought one. Posted pictures. A lot of issues with the casting.
Then Barry did a second run, better but still issues.
Finally Barry Grant did a third short run of the intakes. Pontiac 6-Shooter I believe it was called.
It was a very nice intake, I own one and had it further ported by Dave on the east coast.
Then we move to the Rochester Carb aluminum for the Tri-Power 66 engine.
PY's owner had a run made. I got one of the first intakes for testing on a flow bench.
Very nice finish and even flow thru the runners. Chris at PY did good.
Then the "Other Companies" started making knock-off intakes which were barely acceptable (with work) to "not going to work at all".
I did not see any bitching by the members when the Tri-Power clones were being sold by some of the people posting here.
So it is rare to get a part that fits and works well on a first run. Chris proved it could happen.
So now we have some "Edelbrock" head "clone" castings.
Obvious to me that the guys who sell the "E-version" aluminum heads would make a lot of posts on the subject.
(All negative, naturally), got to keep that "E-version" head paying the bills.
They probably sold the piss-poor Knock-off version of the Aluminum Tri-Power intakes too.
So it one case it is all business and in the other, all bashing, in my opinion.
But entertaining, never the less.
Tom V.