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I just fired up the cut-off wheel and chopped that hump of extra weight off the bottom of the manifold No need to take it to the machine shop nobody will ever see it
Just cut it off
Gus



Good point.

On what ever it was that my machinist was working on he was able to mill it without actually getting into the cross over. So someone could still use it on an engine with a heat cross over. As I said, I don't recall what the engine was so it may have still had the heat cross over.

As for why not just use the valley pan, it is because I hate them. I could list reasons but I won't. People will tell me all the ways to avoid the problems. And at the end of the day I'll still hate them. So I'll save people the trouble of typing.