Reply to "Why the habit of cutting notches in the plenum dividers of dual plane intake manifolds began"

'Get over it and live with the outcome.'(?)

I'm a hot rodder, and modifying and 'improving' things is what we hot todders do. We don't just accept certain things and live with them, we work to improve them and make them better than they were originally. I'm not talking blindly doing things willy-nilly. I'm talking about studying the situation, and coming up with a better solution. That's the whole trip of being a hot rodder!

So if I hear of someone who has come up with a better mousetrap, I'm interested- enough to research their idea. In that regard, Mr. Smoky Unick was one of my hero's. That man had more 'common sense' in his little finger tip than most folks have in their entire body. I don't just bolt stuff onto my motors and 'live with them', not if they can be improved upon with a little imagination and common sense- and in this case a flow bench to sort out the manifold runners flow rates.

I've been in touch with the gentleman who modified Mike Drew's B/T intake, and I personally believe he's legit and knows what he's doing. In the case of my 'little' 357" motor, he's going to do a bit of porting to even up the runner flow, but pretty much leave the divider and its factory notch alone. He adjusted this divider on Mike's intake to 'match' the requirements of his 408" motor. A perfect case of pure, functional hot rodding!