[Turk]

hdheritage97
Thanks a bunch for the encouragement. Not that I neeeded any!
I just wanted to get some input as to which manifold to use more than anything else.
It appears single 4, possibly the 2X4 will fit under the stock ERA hood. I confirmed this with Peter at ERA as well as we measured it.
I took the entire bunch of parts to my engine builder. He has an excellent reputation,he has built a very potent 427SO for a friend's ERA as well. He refuses to build anything beyond 9:1 compression.

We are still sorting through the prelimanary stuff. Nothing etched in stone yet.
Our fuel in California with all the additives, MTB etc. what makes my builder so conservative I believe.

I will take your encouragement to go through with the process. He is going to mag the heads, the block and when it is said and done and the decisions are made, I will have a few manifold and a set of tunnel port heads, and possibly a medium riser heads to sell.

Go ahead and race that Olds 442 and if he cleans your clock, I will have to take a look at your specs and possibly do someting a little more radical so that the same thing won't happen to me.

I will try to stay with the 3:31 rear end. I also don't like the high RPM at highway speeds.

Thanks again.


TURK