[DeTomaso] Valley end wall gaps-revisited

Will Kooiman will.kooiman at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 00:21:26 EDT 2018


Perhaps your head is not machined properly.

People have been telling me that for years.

On 6/6/18, 6:24 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Larry Finch via DeTomaso"
<detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:

>Despite what their representative told me, that the ports are not raised
>and the heads are no wider, the issue causing the large valley end gaps
>is related to something about the design of the CHI aluminum heads.
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>Using the same iron block and iron heads, I dry fitted my old performer
>manifold and the new blue thunder manifold.
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>The gaps with both of those manifolds are essentially the same.
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>Tomorrow I will be taking an iron head to my engine builder and we will
>try to determine what CHI has changed on their head dimensions.
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>Stay tuned. ;-)
>
>Larry 
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