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Adams my friend,

you turn a funny phrase sometime, thanks for the laugh.

There are two aluminum manifolds designed to accomodate the spread bore Autolite. Fords own intake designed for the Boss 351. It is functionally identical to the 1972 cobra Jet manifold, just cast of aluminum instead of iron. When you find one, you'll find the owners asking between $300 and $500 for it. The other intake is the Holley Strip Dominator. It is no longer manufactured but comes up for sale from time to time on ebay, normally selling around $400. The strip dominator is a single plane intake, air gap type, mounts the carburetor about 5/8" higher than where it sits right now, so use of the stock air filter assembly will not be possible.

On the topic of header noise, all headers made of tubing are noisy, compared to cast exhaust manifolds. However, what will make your Pantera quieter or louder will be the mufflers. The Magnaflow mufflers are a good trade off between low backpressure and mellow sound level.

I have the stock exhaust system on my car, and even it sets off car alarms. I kinda like that, it gives me a chuckle when it sets them off.

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cowboy from hell