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Old 01-22-2022, 04:18 PM   #8
Bruce Fulper
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Default Re: Cast Iron manifolds on Super Stock cars

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Originally Posted by 427FE View Post
Some those early Pontiac manifolds were aluminum as well
And they melted rapidly. Pontiac didn't have a good alloy for them . I had a few sets. Melt under the bolt head. Guys would retighten the bolts, squish the flange, loosen, retighten, melt, squish, retighten until junk. Sad. Because the cast iron ones were 78 lbs apiece.
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