I was LUCKY a few weeks back and ran into a deal where I ended up with a COMPLETE set of these cross rams, long casting, spacers, exhaust manifolds, and risers. Included was another partial set AND a 60 Chrysler (non Imp) that runs. Really fell into it and got a great deal. One set is going on my 57 Imperial Roadster. The other will end up on Robert Soule's 65 300 after we fabricate the missing pieces. Kerryp --- "D. Dardalis" <dardal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 05:01 PM 1/20/2002 +0100, r.v.lent wrote: > > >But what will happen when I make an intake manifold > like on the 300 D > >with one carb on each side of the engine ( Yes I > can make this myself ) > Even if you could cast a dual carb manifold > yourself, I would not recommend > it. There is a lot of "science" into designing an > intake manifold. There > are lots and lots of parameters (like air flow off > the carb, and Air/Fuel > distribution) that its highly unlikely you will get > it right by > chance. The OEM's back then did these designs by > trial and error, and with > lots of the engines on the dyno, they tried to come > up with the best > compromised design. Now, these things are simulated > in computers removing > most of the required prototyping and testing. Also, > nowadays with port > injection, their work is somewhat simplified since > they do not need to > worry about A/F distribution and gasoline droplets > accumulating or staying > atomized, or manifold heating, etc. > >The long runners were optimized for high rpm use > and would run poorly as a > >street engine. A lot like running a tunnel ram > manifold on the street. > Correct, but this refers to the later model ram > manifolds on the 413s. I > don't think that ram manifolds were installed on the > early Hemis... These > ram manifolds are even tougher to design since there > is an additional > parameter, the pressure waves. Also, due to the > long distance between the > carbs and the ports, it must be a real design > headache to ensure good fuel > atomization. That proves the advanced engineering > of Chrysler... > D^2 > > > > >