Well I just wasted 50 bucks (sorry Bruno), Seems you CANNOT plane off a stock intake to mount a blower plate, you hit water jackets and cut into the rear port runner. Kinda makes moot the water injection questions I was lining up, LOL.
Leave the intake boltet to the heads, and weld up the holes with "thin" plate cut to fit, little by little..
. Yeah, I could probably save it, but I’m also working with a Rover fuel injection manifold that’s working out ok but it’s a little higher than what I want. I’m gonna switch to lost foam casting and see if I can get a lower plenum.
Well, the fuel injection manifold is working out nicely, I’ll finish the machining and weld up the injector ports. I hate the height the plenum gives me cause I don’t want the carb and air cleaner sticking out of the hood, but we’ ll see.