Ted, congratulations to getting in EMC, we.re all optimistic for great results, sorry to butt in but whats happening with frank, pegleg and the castings, i thought i read of some problem? in the thread, i was just curious. thank you, Best regards to all. aussiebill.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

A bit of back ground on the manifold might be in order as a starting point. John Cain is based in the Newcastle area 100miles north of Sydney, he used to reco and sell engines. I think most of his manifold where for our Chrysler and Holden straight 6's with a  few V8 as well. He is still there but a few years back sold his workshop equipment and these days imports and sells white wall tyres!!. I e-mailed him about possible performance sheets and dyno reports but as usually happened back in the 60's it was seat of the pants testing on the cars, if it worked great, if not back to the drawing board. I looked at the rules [page 18] of the EMC and using this manifold even with internal modifications like runner dividers would appear to be O.K. No performance comparisons are available at my end, I have never used it and don't know anybody who has. Not much help I know but Ted if you think it has potenial I could send it over. Some basic dimentions; 3" from top to the floor of the plenum, runners are 2 1/2 " x 1 3/4". It is rough cast alloy just painted grey at the present time

Pete, one of the Aussie mob. Beechworth, Victoria60 F100 Panel Van, Y-block. 65 Galaxie Country Sedan 390

Frank is the best one to fill in any details but I thought casting issues at the foundry were at the forefront of the timing cover and water pump shortages.

Pete.  If you can get the manifold to me, I’ll test it with some other intake manifolds as that will determine if the manifold has merit or not.  Just let me know if you’re willing to send it and I’ll just consider it a loan until it’s on its way back to you.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

O.K. Ted it's on it's way, jeez I hope it's not a dud.

Pete, one of the Aussie mob. Beechworth, Victoria60 F100 Panel Van, Y-block. 65 Galaxie Country Sedan 390

Pete, these manifolds etc were cast from anything alloy that would melt and often were put on boats due to the open runner design, i have ran them in the days when they were only 4bbl intake available here, as there wasnt anything else to compare them to, they seemed to go ok. I have several and must say, that one looks nice. We often joked they would turn red when you put your foot down as the fuel was coming through the casting, he, he. Regards bill.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Rebop is pretty much history. The sales fell off a cliff last year, and I had a problem finding another foundry for the aluminum parts. Went through three with very poor results. Lousy quality, and deliveries, but high prices. I have found a foundry that will and can make the parts, but still don't see enough sales to warrant the investment in time and money to restart it. I can't afford to continue to subsidize this, have to support a familty and eat first.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

AAHHH  JEEEEZESS   Frank, so sorry to hear. Thank God I have your timing cover, water pump, and Thermo cover.  THANK You for your concern about the quality of you parts.  Everything has been First Class.  Again Thanks  God Bless   Eddie

Eddie

Lake Forest, Ca. 92630

Great. Now I wonder if I should actually install all the alum. Rebop parts I accumulated, or save them for posterity as "new-in-box" museum collectables.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

Hi Ted, has the manifold turned up yet? any first impressions?

Pete, one of the Aussie mob. Beechworth, Victoria60 F100 Panel Van, Y-block. 65 Galaxie Country Sedan 390

Also, Ted, how is the financial help coming along?  We need to back you on this.  We tried a couple of times to let Jim accept our help, and he refused it.  Now we can help you instead, and we need to do that. 

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"