Is this gonna hurt?? Look at my pic's
 

just got my intake today. The ports are horrible. Weiand used to
make there intakes with small peanut ports. Now thay almost match
the large oval ports. But they are so out of round:smash:

Will this hurt performance??
Should I gasket port them??
Does it matter??
These are going on a 454 with large oval ports.
Should I just leave them alone??

This is a tech question!! :cheers:

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You can tell some ports are a little larger than others. Edelbrock makes perfect
ports on there intakes, But the weiand, I think is better in design minus the port area.

Gasket port at the very least!!!IMO

Thats what i was thinking. the second pic shows the out of round
port real good. :smash:

those do look bad:ack:

As posted ,I would blend those intake ports to the heads via the gasket as a template.


This was a tech response.


:cheers:

BB NJ Ken

LOL, thanks. I don't like how some ports are bigger then others :ack:

Just got off the phone with weiand. He came on this site to see the
pic's, and said those were crap!! SEND it back LOL. :D

Dilema solved

Wow, thats service

Or bad publicity.:lol:

Jegs is pretty good about problem solving.
They are even paying for a return lable :cheers:

Now that's worth publicizing. Kudos to Jegs. :hurray:

I'm impressed. Way to go Jeg's.

:iagree:

Nothing like a standup vendor!

Wow!
 

That's some serious core shift! Makes you wonder how many others are out there.. Be great to get one as a second (read cheap), and then port match the heck out of it. Rest of it looks OK, but it must be just as bad inside...

Hans

I have a stealth manifold new in the box I bought two years ago, going to look at mine.

Way, cool. Post some pic's :cheers:

Misread op. You have the manifold for bb engine with oval ports. Those do not look too good. I have a sb stealth, ports are rectangular.

I just bought a WEIAND stealth intake for my VORTEC
and it was in perfect shape:cheers:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...Picture040.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...Picture045.jpg

And this is the current state of MEGALADON :crazy: :ack: :( :eek:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...Picture046.jpg

OOps sorry, its an action plus intake.

Dang Felix, you need to buy a storage shed or give me that Camaro.