Update - "AoK - New Dual Carb intake for the USA flathead 6"
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Well it has been a while since we last checked in with the progress report on the New AoK intake.
As does happen some things just throw a curve ball into a project and the water jacket feature was our
curve ball. We have a perfectionist as our pattern maker and while it didn't increase in price, he most certainly
put in a ton of extra time trying to come up with a solution to the water jacket "perfect solution".
The perfect solution really became comprised of two factors.
1) We asked if it was possible and if so how much of a deal would it be to have 1 set of molds, that allowed
for the creation of the intake without and then with the water jacket.
We were doing that based on a pretty much split down the middle in response from customers on what they would
ideally like to have.
2) Was is there any difference in having the water tube integrated on the outside or the inside.
If it is on the inside it would look better as things are a little more hidden and we don't have any issue
with the it interfering with linkage required for vehicles needing linkage on the outside of the intake such as trucks.
So between #1 and #2 we went from being a couple of weeks ahead when we were ready for a 1st cast early in January, to
being a month or so behind. Lol.. welcome to the world of trying to make as perfect a part as you can.
Now for the good news: The final molding (not just the prototype molding) is now finished and what we hope is the final intake
before going to production with be cast this week.
It will be shipped to us to be checked over, then machined to make sure it is 100% in line with the specs.
Then assuming its two thumbs up we will go into production casting the intake without the water jacket.
No, don't panic, we will then insert the add on mold piece and be able to cast the intake with the water jacket.
So we are making progress and the there are some great things coming from the process but it is taking time.
Expected shipping of intakes to customers... still shooting for April time frames.
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Appendix:
This is a picture of our AoK triple for the big block. It has a set of AoK headers made from a stock exhaust manifold.
Customer wanted white !
These two pictures are the AoK triple on Tim Kingsbury (my) 1949 Plymouth Business coupe. It gives you a good idea what the headers
look like mounted on the car. Personally I prefer the look over other headers as it provides more of a period look and provides the same performance results.
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