I got to thinking last night and that's always a bad idea.....
I was wondering if anyone had tried to use a manifold designed for the CHI "3V" heads on one of jays adapters.
http://www.chiheads.com.au/shop/manifolds/3v-ford-cleveland-manifold/#I started looking at them, and it looks like the CHI port is raised up quite a bit compared to a standard 351C intake
So I'm wondering if this would make it possible to do some custom porting on one of jays adapters, and raise the port in a standard run of the mill edelbrock, FElony, BBM or even a stock head.
Obviously some floor filling would be needed, but if the CHI 3V port isn't too high, it could possibly allow for a raised oval port FE head.
Just looking at picks on the internet makes it hard to judge, but it looks like it might work.
Years and years ago i cut up a stock 390 head to see how far i could raise the roof, then proceeded to clamp another 390 head in the bridgeport, and using a 1/2 inch ball mill i raised the roof about .250-.300 ( memory fails me here ), then i filled the floor with about 1/2 inch of JB weld (at the port) I ended up with a more oval port that was smaller in cross section than the stock port. Then i flowed it on the bench and was very impresses with the gains. Life happened and i was never able to get any further than that, but i've always wanted to take it up again.
with modern castings and jays adapter its more feasible now than ever. Of course it's going to have to work pretty darn well to justify going through all that work considering how good heads like Blairs ProPorts are with a stock intake location.
thoughts?
