2f header fit? (1 Viewer)
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Assuming the ports line up, the flange thickness matches the intake flange thickness and you have a welder and grinder, yes it might fit.
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Thnx. Measured everything.
Why is the join five feet from the curve? How will that affect the sound?
I have never seen one that looks like that. Managing the parameters like equal length, savaging the cylinder that fired before ... dictates the design if good INHO.
That mounting flange looks like 1/2" plate. So was the one on my man-a-fre. I made custom stepped washers to apply equal torque to the 1/4" flange on the aluminium intake. I used 2 Manny header gaskets that I applied wet. Made longer "studs" and used stainless steel nuts. "Planed the header on a big piece of glass with sandpaper glued to it. That header and intake plus gaskets has been on at least 2 different engines, 3 times total and no leaks.
I just run a glass pack on my racing tractor.
That mounting flange looks like 1/2" plate. So was the one on my man-a-fre. I made custom stepped washers to apply equal torque to the 1/4" flange on the aluminium intake. I used 2 Manny header gaskets that I applied wet. Made longer "studs" and used stainless steel nuts. "Planed the header on a big piece of glass with sandpaper glued to it. That header and intake plus gaskets has been on at least 2 different engines, 3 times total and no leaks.
I just run a glass pack on my racing tractor.
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Me neither. The join is about three feet from the curve, never seen that. It's definitely off a 2f though.
I don't get why a 2F is a tractor forever. Engines are compression and air/fuel and cooling and lubrication and a distributor and exhaust. If you mod all that how can you miss?
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Because it's designed for torque at low rpm, not hp. Undersquare (stroke length longer than the bore is wide), small-ish valves, conservative cam specs, heavy flywheel, plus low compression for 3rd-world gas. By the time you mod all that, you'd be way ahead on money and time just to swap in a more modern engine like an LS or SBC.
Back in the late 80's or so there was a local Man-a-fre outlet. The old guy who ran (sorry can't remember his name, but the store was on Fairview near Meridian), told me he saw a 2F that was balanced and blue printed. A quarter on edge would would stand up at full throttle. That's fairly smooth in my book. I still want the early corvette 283, with mechanical lifters and a good cam.
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Right. Well I did those mods, valves angled at 60°...etc...had to tear the engine down anyway so figured wth. If I get a few more ponies for powering up my hill in 3rd I'll be happy. Ecstatic even...
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