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Originally Posted by Tom Vaught
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 TriPower 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 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.
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Hi Tom, I remember all that. What do you feel is more of a concern, a valve seat falling out of a head or an intake port match that needs correcting?
Btw.... I'm on here trying to educate the consumers. In the past two years Edelbrock has not let us sell any heads but we have plenty of work to do without them.