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I suggest the edelbrock water pump. It is aluminum and comes in natural or polished. www.summittracing.com.

Manifolds are pretty easy. The best performing is the Edelbrock performer rpm manifold. It is a bolt on medium rise style 4v but of course it isn't original. Blue Thunder has repro manifolds that replicate the OEM look and provide good performance. Offenhauser made a good 4v as well as a dual quad manifold for several years and are pretty cheap these days.

Of course the most manly men choose either an OEM dual quad or a webber setup. Both are more pricey and more difficult to keep tuned. But of course you didn't come in here because it was easy. You came in here because it's cool. Dual quads and webbers are cool. A nice webber set up willl set you back $2k-2.5k and a full 8v lowrise should be about $1200-1500.

You can put together a dual quad unit piece by piece if you can deal with non oem carbs (Holley 1850's are most common) in that case the carbs are $375 ea. a nice manifold might set you back $450. 1" phenolic spacers are $50 ea and air cleaners are another $65 ea. linkage is $75. It still ends up being $1500 but in smaller chunks.