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Re: My entertaining weekend.

To: "Bricklin" <bricklin@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: My entertaining weekend.
From: "Greg Monfort" <wingracer@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:19:34 -0500

> > Single or dual plane? Spread or square bore?
> [Olson, Scott]  Dual plane square bore.
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Did you retain the stock air filter? In measuring my '75, I didn't
have enough clearance for a dual plane. The spreadbore gives even
better off idle response with better gas mileage. Oh well.
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>
> It's rather funny, but with the salting of the roads here in
>Chicago and the emminent rust problems, you don't see too many AMC
cars,
>therefore you don't see any AMC experts.  at all.  I end up talking
to a
>Corvette Specialist to answer most of my inane questions.
>
> I guess if anyone wants to pay for shipping I'll send the Air
>injection unit thingie.  It appears to be locked up, but then again
I
>don't know what it was supposed to do in the first place.
>
> Another question:
> There are risers coming vertically up from the exhaust manifold
>and all connect together at a ball valve or something.  On the
passenger
>side these have been removed and crimped.  I have an itch to do the
same
>thing on the driver side.  What are they for?
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These ultimately went back to the air injection pump.
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Should I remove them?
>How do I remove them? and are there any aftermarket or alternative
>exhaust manifolds?
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I would swap them for a set of tube headers to realize all the
potential from the carb/intake conversion. Then play with the
ignition, carb jetting.

GM






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