Thread: General Hemi Info Part 2

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It's an old picture that was taken shortly after I got the intake, and is setting on the block because it was a good place to store it (and it looked really cool). I used this picture because it was the one I had handy that still showed the water pipes when I wrote this stuff.

I picked up the intake at a swap meet years ago so I don't have any history on it. I assume from the plumbing that it was run a an early 51-54 Hemi. I have since removed the pipes and pipe plugged 2 of the outlets (the other 2 will be used for a temp sender and heater hose) for use on the 55 331 thats going into my 37 Dodge.




"...... And again, were the passages from the original center 2bbl outlet somehow blocked off so that they would not flow into the other 4 ports, or are all of the ports still connected?......."


If you look closely at the pictures of the dry intake, you will see the manifold is built with sets of runners. One set is on top of the others one feeds cyls 1-4-6-7 the other 2-3-5-8. BY the design of the manifold, 1 BBL feeds one set of runners and the other barrel feeds the other set.

When the manifold was modified a cut was made into the upper runner (as far as I can tell it was milled, that went thru the top and front side of the runner. A second hole was milled thru the top of the lower runner. Neither hole cut into the runner it was not intended to feed. Pieces were then fabricated to close the runners back (including internally) and connect then to the carb base.

In this configuration you still have two seperate sets of runners that are not inter connected. The picture below should help clarify it.