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Originally Posted by Mcronk
Unless you can find an original no one reproduces the green cover. However you can get creative and paint it to be green. There was an original on ebay a while back. I used it for reference.
Nice to see original set of RA II exhaust manifolds. I got lucky and found a nice set. I had them coated by Jet Hot.
I made some changes from stock configuration. I "by passed" the factory vacum advance routing (its there for correct look) but found my car likes vacuum from intake port (full vacum). Carb is a 263 not 273 ( 263 is correct 68 manual transmission). Distributor is a early 68 manual transmission code modified with single advance port like correct RA II distributor. I had sold Jim Mino the last correct fan blade and spacer I had. Also talked to him about distributors and vacum routing before he passed. He sent me pictures of a RA II distributor he just restored.
I find these RA II cars intriguing. In fact 68 GTO has a lot of "one year only" parts much like the RA II engines.
My car is not a concourse car but am trying to make it mostly correct.
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Very nice. Please post a pic of your fan setup. No heat shield on the manifold?