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Originally Posted by Ed Wright
Don't know what that Dodge manifold has to do with Ridgeway.
Anyway, I don't know how anybody can say who had the first Corvette FI manifold converted to a tunnel ram. Many used early model, cut the top off. And add a new lid. Butch Lake did that. Carroll bought a new one for a 1965, which had a bolt on lid. He sent it to Joe Mondello for porting, and made a bolt on lid. I think maybe Lake had the first one around here. Who knows if he or Ridgeway did their's first. People on the right coast are going to think Ridgeway's was first. The only place you could maybe ever see all of them in one place back then would be Indy, but not everybody could or did go to Indy. Money was tighter back then. No Internet to connect everybody back then. I do know who lost their manifold to R&D at Edelbrock.
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Ed...I've got to run to work....your points here are valid. I was in early teens in that time frame going to ONE local drag race a year. YOU were out there....competing...and saw the stuff....The point on the Ramcharger altered...is doesn't THAT look like a crude TUNNEL RAM intake....note time frame. I guess it could be said that Edelbrock was the FIRST to MASS-PRODUCE these.....