From: "Neil K" <neilak@home.com>
To: "Plugs Up" <plugsup@olsusa.com>,
	<StJames515@aol.com>
Subject: RE: Intake manifold.
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:08:22 -0400
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Tommy,

	I thought I'd keep every one in the loop on this.  Maybe some others will
have good ideas.

	5-6" radius isn't that tough for a tube bending shop.  Just make sure the
AL is annealed before bending and that it is mandrill bend.

	I'm not sure what FRP is (I hate TLA's  (Three Letter Acronyms :) )  I'm
guessing at Fibre Re-enforced Plastic.  You make a mould (where the fibre
glass goes in) or a plug (where the fibre glass goes on the outside) out of
any material that won't get eaten by the resin.  In the case of a plug, you
could use a rubber hose well waxed and lay glass around it then pull the
hose out.  Or clay then break the clay out, or foam and melt or pick the
foam out.  That's the great thing about fibre glass..  your imagination is
the limiting factor.

	3 or 4 layers of 8 oz cloth or carbon should to the trick along with epoxy
resin.

	What type of manifold are you trying to build?  Does it look like any that
have been posted already?  What kind of carb or are you going fuel
injection?  Have you given any thought to butchering a stock manifold?  How
about using the lower half of a stock manifold and a Racing Beat top half
(for a Weber foot print)?

Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: StJames515@aol.com [mailto:StJames515@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 8:43 AM
To: neilak@home.com
Subject: Re: Intake manifold.


Hi Neil...I appreciate your thoughts!
Do you know of (a) where one can have al tubing bent to a 5-6" radius? and
(b) how to construct FRP tubing in the curves necessary?  For the life of
me,
I can't figure it out and it should be simple.  That's what makes all this
stuff fun!...right?
Regards,
Tommy<><