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dkak001 said:
I just picked up some corvette heads that came with a plastic intake, from 1999. So, it's been around a while.
A lot of people (myself included, sometimes) bemoan plastic. However there are use cases it's just fine. I'm not sure if intake is that application where it's fine, but they seem to hold up. And you can do things with airflow you can't with cast or forged aluminum parts. 🤷‍♂️

Found a set of winters on rims for the last car that didn't have any winters on rims today. On the way home it started snowing! Talk about waiting for the last minute! :ROFLMAO:

Most of the outside stuff is done now. Need to do a little maintenance and maybe a upgrade to the blower on the tractor, but the shop is heated so it won't be as painful as other projects would be out in the snow. Still trying to recover from the treezilla project, so it's going to be a slow day, methinks.

Hope you all have a good Saturday afternoon. Maybe I'll check in later, maybe not. Cold, wet, gray, rainy/snowy days have a habit of including a nap and extra snoozing.
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Ford had problems with them early on, but there's "fixes" for them.
Most brands have issues with early, "prototypes" that they sell us guinea pigs.🤣
Due to the nature of plastic though, I don't anticipate the manifolds to be usable on a 70+ year old car. 🤣
 
Boat1 said:
Ford had problems with them early on, but there's "fixes" for them.
Most brands have issues with early, "prototypes" that they sell us guinea pigs.🤣
Due to the nature of plastic though, I don't anticipate the manifolds to be usable on a 70+ year old car. 🤣
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There's a lot of other stuff that won't be usable in a 70 year old car by then too!

But, there's old stuff out there that failed at high rates too. Try find an original flathead Ford V8. Lots of them are cracked. We just forget about the stuff that fails, and 60 years later it's faded from memory.

I think a lot of the reason that older hardware is still available was the power per cubic inch was low. When you start pushing power density up, reliability and lifetime suffers. Some of those old flatheads would make 1/10th of a HP per cubic inch. They just weren't pushed hard enough to hurt themselves.

In my experience Honda does that with their small engines. They last forever because they keep them detuned.

Every design is a compromise. Cost, power, expected lifetime. When we want a lot of power and low cost we get plastic in our cars. Don't forget we're telling these guys what we want by what we buy. (Except when the government sets limits and rules, etc.)
 
Boat1 said:
I remember going to a school auction with dad, where we picked up a 1950 Chevy Suburban for 50 bucks. They said it had been sitting for 20 years.
We spent one day cleaning up the fuel and ignition systems, changing tires, then drove it around town....
I love that old stuff!
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The bulk of my anvils are from 1947. Inline eights, one version the largest engine outta Deeetroit that year (and the next two, also) and had the highest top speed in the o/d models. Forty-one hundred pounds and 107MPH, more or less. The funny thing is, my driver doesn't rattle. At all. Of course, they used 8 bolts where Henry Ford would have bitched about the 2nd one.
 
dkak001 said:
I remember readin' it before. I hope you end up getting it. That's the fun stuff I like playing with. Have a similar-ish project with LS heads and an inline six planned.

My only thought reading about that one was using pipe plugs on the deck of the block. Lock-n-Stitch are good because the thread profile pulls the surrounding metal together. Tapered pipe, is, tapered pipe. Probably enough iron around to that you don't have to worry, something else might have been slightly better.
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You're one up on me. I only looked at the pictures. I also wonder if the old 356 block was the best choice because there is the newer (still a flattie) design 359 which has the same kind of bulletproof bottom end and saves some mass, and therefore some weight. Just found out the damned thing is in New England, so that adds logistics to deal with. Wat's Best Guess: nobody else will buy the fucker.
 
Slow day today. Had all sorts of big plans, most of which didn't get done. The bed was feeling all nice and soft, and I drifted off for a few hours. Was awoken by a dinner call, pot roast with taters and carrots out of the garden. Slow was a flying earlier today, so that warm dinner hit the spot!

Now I'm vegging in front of the TV...
 
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