Re: Trick Flow 270 intake and valley pan?
[Re: Azzkikrcuda]
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02/27/17 05:41 PM
02/27/17 05:41 PM
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AndyF
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Has anyone got a 270 head to check out yet. Are the ports actually Max Wedge size, Being they are not running offset intake rockers. Based on my 240 heads, porting to max wedge height is no problem, but getting to max wedge width and a straight shot in without hitting the push rod channel is tough. My 270 heads are in transit and supposed to be delivered today. Once they get here I'll snap some pictures. From what I've seen so far they are MW port size but they are the "small" MW size. That is, they match the Fel Pro gasket size. My Indy EZ heads which were ported by Modern were ported to the "big" MW size which is the Mr Gasket 302 size. The MrG 302 gasket is a fair bit larger than the Fel Pro gasket size. The Indy intake gasket and the Superformance gaskets fall in the middle between the Fel Pro and the MrG size. So depending on which gasket you are using there are at least four different MW port sizes.
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Re: Trick Flow 270 intake and valley pan?
[Re: AndyF]
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02/27/17 06:07 PM
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Azzkikrcuda
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Yeah, I bought a few different gaskets when doing mine and they were all different sizes. I ended up using the superformance gasket size.
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Re: Trick Flow 270 intake and valley pan?
[Re: 70VcodeCoronetRT]
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03/01/17 10:41 PM
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Cheers for your research Andy. Just a quick question is the exhaust port standard height ? Im after some head but we have fenderwells set up with SR's so I cant go lower.
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Re: Trick Flow 270 intake and valley pan?
[Re: AndyF]
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03/02/17 11:00 AM
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BradH
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The 240 heads are a little different. The Superformance paper gasket is a very good match to the 240 head while the FelPro paper gasket doesn't fit very well.
Yep, the FelPro paper gasket doesn't even align properly with their own valley pan; the paper gasket has the port pairs separated a bit too much. You've probably seen that Edelbrock has their own .030" paper gasket that looks almost exactly like FelPro's, except the Edelbrock gasket port spread is "normal". I don't have many MW gaskets on hand since I don't use them. However, Indy's MW gasket appears to have the opposite situation than FelPro's std port gasket, in that it has the port pairs slightly closer to each other than the "normal" distance. I don't know if Indy's MW ports align with their gasket or not. I know their std port gaskets line up just fine (at least the ports do, but the bolt holes are slightly higher than they should be).
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Re: Trick Flow 270 intake and valley pan?
[Re: RustyM]
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03/02/17 11:08 AM
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... Leaving us with the very limited intake issues of the MW world as far as I'm aware at this point. Indy: - RB 4150 - RB 4500 "-3" - RB 4500 "-3X" - B 4150 - B 4500 Edelbrock: - RB 4500 It's not as if there are NO MW intakes, only whether Trick Flow decides to provide any more options. EDIT: I left out the MP "337" RB 4150 because I don't know if they're any more available at this point.
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Re: Trick Flow 270 intake and valley pan?
[Re: srunge55]
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03/02/17 03:59 PM
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Andy, any plans to test the new 270 heads with the Indy single plan intake? Yes I broke down and ordered up a Indy 400-3 for my 470 engine. I'll test it as well as the Mopar M1 4500 std port intake. Might even try the TF std port intake depending on time.
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