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I have a 1275 engine in my 1960 BE. I have a 948 exhaust pipe. I just received a 948 exhaust manifold, which marries up nicely to the exhaust pipe. I have a Weber carb. (I used to have a 1098 exhaust manifold. That was married to the exhaust pipe with a clamp. Worked okay, but it cracked recently.)

When I assemble everything I find that there is a small (1/16th inch) gap at the bottom of where the intake manifold attaches to the engine. The top meets, but the bottom has those gaps (one one each intake port). The exhaust and intake manifolds are fit really tight together and I just can't get them any closer together.

The exhaust manifold fits fine.

Has anyone dealt with this? Any recommendations?

Mike Pennell
 
Hit "switch to full reply screen"
Hit "file manager"
Add file of picture
Hit "Submit" (or whatever that is called)
 
Don't try to tighten anything until this gets cleared up. Cast stuff is brittle.
 
Sorry, guys. I can't get a single photo under 100K. I'm a novice. If anyone has a recommendation I'm open to listen.

Mike Pennell
 
With whatever software you use, get the photo to less than 600 pixels in any dimension. That should get the file size down. On a Mac, you can use iPhoto to do this. Not sure on Windows.
 
if your running window7 you can just snippit and save it that how i got some of my pic on
 
My daughter told me to open the picture in "Paint" and save (and send) that one.
It worked for me (Windows cra!!!!).
BillM
 
Billm said:
My daughter told me to open the picture in "Paint" and save (and send) that one.
It worked for me (Windows cra!!!!).
BillM
Click to expand...

works - just make sure you save it as a jpg

you can also crop and resize in microsoft office picture manager. There is a size spec for picture posted to the net.
 
The issue is that the exhaust manifold has a square section behind the center port. The intake manifold is making contact with this, preventing the intake manifold from making complete contact with the cylinder head. I am aware of the metal rings, but I am not using those.

Mike Pennell
 
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