NC-Fordguy
Bronco Guru
I decided to take the stock ford 2v intake manifold off. I have laying around and thought to install a dual plane 4v edelbrock 289 performer on the 302 in the 1970. I noticed the stock intake has cooling port through the rear of the intake and the edelbrock didn't.
Looked around some more and found 2 edelbrock single plane 4v had the cooling port. My 74 has a weiland intake dual plane has the cooling port through the back as well.
Reading around a few forums to include this one, seems to instigate a debate. One school of thought is it's not needed if egr is deleted. Another school of thought is by omitting the rear intake cooling port leads to trapped air and cooling problems.
Since here in NC vehicles this old aren't inspected, I just assume install the 289 performer intake as is.
So what say you all?
Looked around some more and found 2 edelbrock single plane 4v had the cooling port. My 74 has a weiland intake dual plane has the cooling port through the back as well.
Reading around a few forums to include this one, seems to instigate a debate. One school of thought is it's not needed if egr is deleted. Another school of thought is by omitting the rear intake cooling port leads to trapped air and cooling problems.
Since here in NC vehicles this old aren't inspected, I just assume install the 289 performer intake as is.
So what say you all?