RE: IML: HP Manifolds do not fit Imperial

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>By OEM, do you mean the stock/original manifolds...

Yes.

OEM is Original Equipment (at time of) Manufacture.


I have stock units that are "good enough" because the
price is right.

I came into the HP ones that I tried out for free, so
that was an easy decision.  I was even willing to
grind away some of the steering box to connive them
into place, but obviously that's not realistic.

Part of my definition of hot-rodding this car is doing
workarounds with the resources and smarts already at
hand in the most sensible/cost effective method
possible.  I went way over the top on the engine
regarding cost already, so must pause and keep
financial perspective.  I see the rationale behind
$200 for C-body hp manifolds, but see the same
goodness behind a $3k serpentine belt system with
modern components and a list of other things that
would be really cool to do if this were my only car
and I didn't have 8 others in various stages of
decomposition and renewal.

The money that could go to the manifolds will go to a
radiator recore and probably one of those metal Auto
Temp units instead.

That's the thinking now.  Limited resources and all
that.  

And yes, Brad, I realize that I mis-spoke about Imps
being the only cars with rear-dump manifolds.  That
wasn't a well thought-through statement.  


-Kenyon

--- Rob McCall <Rob_Mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, but the first time you drive it should help
> reset those scales.
> 
> By OEM, do you mean the stock/original manifolds, or
> the factory C-body HP
> manifolds?  You should be able to find a pair of the
> C-body ones relatively
> cheap, maybe $150-200.  
> 
> Rob McCall
> '67 LeBaron, don't want to even think about the
> profit-to-grief ratio right
> now.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Kenyon Wills
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:31 AM
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> Subject: Re: IML: HP Manifolds do not fit Imperial
> 
> I will stick with the OEM units.  
> 
> The profit-to-grief ratio on this portion of my
> project is already out of balance.
> 
> Thank you all.
> 
> 
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