I've never worked with an aftermarket manifold before, but if you want to
see what a truely poor example of quality is, take a look at a factory TPI
intake manifold for a late 80's Pontiac F-Body. Now that's one rough,
uneven, peice of metal! My M1 looks 500% better than that thing!
John
http://jndneff.home.texas.net/dakota/dakota.html
>I just finished working on mine. I smoothed out the step on each side left
>from the machining into the plenum directly under the throttle body.
>Mine also has some core shift that effects the runner dividers. I also
>smoothed these out and profiled them a little as one divider is almost
1/16"
>thicker than the other three. All the dividers protruded different amounts
>each into the plenum also so I smoothed them to the plenum.
>I had to smooth the injector bosses also. Spent about 2 hrs. on it.
>All in all I did what should have been done from Ma Mopar.
>My opinion is that my intake is a poor example of quality!
>Maybe the second run will be better. I will have mine installed tomarrow.
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