BUILD THREAD “The Juggernaut”
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If I was the first to complain, he wouldn't have told me others have had issues and that he had a template already made to alter the geometry.
All my emails for this thread have been in my spam folder and I'm aggravated 😤
Getting back to the Edelbrock heads
Have you checked to see if anyone has a good program to cnc port them ? I am also of the opinion (jmo) that you should have heads checked locally or you can do it yourself. I had a bad experience with heads in the past. It was only made good by speaking with the owner (famous guy) of the company. Long story.
Getting back to the Edelbrock heads
Have you checked to see if anyone has a good program to cnc port them ? I am also of the opinion (jmo) that you should have heads checked locally or you can do it yourself. I had a bad experience with heads in the past. It was only made good by speaking with the owner (famous guy) of the company. Long story.
Whoa whoa whoa, when did this occur? Pictures to prove it (haha)?
FWIW, to heck with dyno numbers.
Drove 2 hours south to meet up with Cauterize and his fam for the Lethbridge swap meet today. Northernregal was supposed to join us as well, but unfortunately he had to work. Normally I come home empty handed from these things, but today was a success.
Thanks to Blane’s eagle eyes, I picked up this Edelbrock RPM Air Gap knockoff for cheap.
Guy wanted $300 Canadian pesos for it, but after a little haggling, he ended up taking $185 for it. I’m actually quite impressed with the quality and the casting, it’s far better than one would think from an offshore knockoff. No pits, flashing or otherwise poor casting qualities, and looks to have been very lightly used.
After removing all the old owners junk off it and cleaning up the machined surfaces with nothing more than a rubber bristle Roloc disc, everything looks really really good.
A little light pitting around the water jacket passages, but that’s to be expected. I was impressed that they weren’t all rotted out.
This is the worst one, but it’s only to supply coolant to the heater hose:
Next week I’ll take it into work and glass bead it in our blast cabinet, I can guarantee it’ll clean up like brand new.
This should compliment the new cylinder heads quite nicely, it’s a substantial upgrade over my existing plain old Performer manifold. And like the heads, this too was part of the plan all along too. I would’ve preferred a genuine Edelbrock, but for the price, condition, and surprising apparent quality of this CrossWind one, I’ll take it. Worst case scenario, if for whatever reason it turns out to be a total POS, I’ll send it down the road to the next guy and go back to an Edelbrock.
Thanks to Blane’s eagle eyes, I picked up this Edelbrock RPM Air Gap knockoff for cheap.
Guy wanted $300 Canadian pesos for it, but after a little haggling, he ended up taking $185 for it. I’m actually quite impressed with the quality and the casting, it’s far better than one would think from an offshore knockoff. No pits, flashing or otherwise poor casting qualities, and looks to have been very lightly used.
After removing all the old owners junk off it and cleaning up the machined surfaces with nothing more than a rubber bristle Roloc disc, everything looks really really good.
A little light pitting around the water jacket passages, but that’s to be expected. I was impressed that they weren’t all rotted out.
This is the worst one, but it’s only to supply coolant to the heater hose:
Next week I’ll take it into work and glass bead it in our blast cabinet, I can guarantee it’ll clean up like brand new.
This should compliment the new cylinder heads quite nicely, it’s a substantial upgrade over my existing plain old Performer manifold. And like the heads, this too was part of the plan all along too. I would’ve preferred a genuine Edelbrock, but for the price, condition, and surprising apparent quality of this CrossWind one, I’ll take it. Worst case scenario, if for whatever reason it turns out to be a total POS, I’ll send it down the road to the next guy and go back to an Edelbrock.
after a LITTLE haggling? nice job. I remember an episode of engine masters where they did intake shoot out I think that might have been one of the models.
Yeah, I didn’t exactly want to cut him off at the knees with an offer of $150, but had to start somewhere. It worked out because he countered with $200, and we met just over the middle at $185.
Reviews on the CrossWind manifolds are hit and miss, some guys have had bad issues with things like port misalignments and bolt holes not drilled at the right angles, but others have had no issues whatsoever and love them. I have a spare set of Olds intake gaskets here that I tried on them, and they align perfectly.
So, 🤷🏼♂️? As far as the performance is concerned, the consensus seems to be that they’re pretty much on par with Edelbrock.
Come on you didn't want to leave that advanced vacuum hyperloop on that manifold?
At least we found something in the sea of garbage. My buddy told me that Chevelle rear end dude wouldn't go lower than 250.
