GS,
Definitly check out your gasket and TB alignment. My gasket was sticking in
to the stock TB bore by about 1/16 of an inch on the IAC side and the
manifold was about .02 too small on each bore. Easy fix (although once I
get the final TB worked out Im pinning it down ala the Jman's
reccomendations, hopefully to an M1 if they ever arrive and they "work"...).
for transistion turbulence and higher velocities into the plenum. Lots of
blueprinting opps on the magnum v8s it appears! Every gasket Ive seen (new)
for the TB is a little different and varies in both thickness and features
around the IAC. They all seem to need to be trimmed in one place or
another. Seems like the Mopar engineers figured these motors were just
going into trucks or something...
BKB
-----Original Message-----
From: GSWillhite [mailto:GSWillhite@ualr.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 1:11 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: Re: More Muscle Motor Madness...
Thanks for the info Jules,
As soon as I get the chance I'm gonna check out the
TBI-intake bore alignment just to see if there's any
mismatch. I don't know how difficult it would be rem-
oving the intake and modifying the runners but I may
give this a shot as well. I'd send it to you but I
can't have my truck down for very long. This may be
the way to go for extra horsepower and still have my
truck look stock for warranty situations...
Jules, how much do you charge for an intake modification?
I need to buy one of your MPI magazines to.
GS -
98 5.2L 5spd 3.92SG
>
> so... yall should maybe consider this somehow...
>
> at least check the bore alignments as best you can
>
> loosen up the bolts some... jiggle it this way.... that way....align the
> gasket.... align the tbis... draw the bolts
>
> all the time with the bore WOT and a flashlite on a cool engine... maybe a
> buddy...
>
> and get it all aligned as best you can.... 'cause
>
> you KNOW that dodge didn't align it other than to the random draw on the
> bolts and they "zippped"
>
> down the tbi bolts... when they did the engine.
>
> jamn
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