I know someone here will have the answer, so I'm not panicing..yet.. smile.gif

Here's my problem. I'm helping a guy put together a car, and he wanted to make it different, so we bought an old crower mechanical fuel injection that he's having converted to electronic. We needed to do some measurements for height, and when we set the manifold onto the block/heads, we couldn't get it to line up with the bolt holes.

In order to get the bolt holes to line up, we had to shim the manifold up over .25", which leaves quite a gap between the manifold and the block/heads. These injectors were off an old race car (so we were told), and I'm wondering if I've ended up with a tall deck manifold?

Is there anything I can do to make this work? These were hard to find, and weren't cheap either...heck of an expensive paperweight.

Thanks for your help..and merry christmas to all.... smile.gif

If you had a tall deck manifold, it wouldnt sit down all the way. sounds more like a manifold that was machined to fit a shorter deck ? If I'm wrong and it does turn out to be a Tall Deck Manifold, I am interested in buying it.

Are you sure you don't have a tall deck block? That is just about the thickness of the spacers you use to fit a std. manifold to a truck block.

Originally posted by Mike Feudo:
Are you sure you don't have a tall deck block? That is just about the thickness of the spacers you use to fit a std. manifold to a truck block. No, I've got a standard deck block...we used a standard intake manifold to mock things up, and it fit just fine.

Mike might be right. that does sound like a tall deck block. i have one and that is about the size spacers you need to put a regular manifold on.

Did you use the dowels to align the heads onto the block or are they missing? I would guess that if you didn't use them the heads would slide down the deck until they hit the head bolts making the distance between the intake surfaces quite a bit farther apart.

Just a guess

Jeff

Bob,
It sounds like the manifold has been milled a bunch, probably due to a set of heads that were milled a bunch also. You could probably use the spacers that they make for putting a standard intake on a tall deck block, thats about how thick they are. Also, when you get it mocked up, try the distibutor and make sure it is going into the block the correct amount.
Hope this helps,

Thanks for the help everyone. I think we may have to try the spacers...