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I am building a stroker Cleveland. Will use the Australian 4V alu heads from AFD. Have found that Edelbrock offers two manifolds I can use. They are #29246, or #29286. (based on Super Victor #2924, and #2928). As these are made for the Windsor engine, I need to use an adaptor kit offered by "Pricemotorsport", item AP35, or AP06. Anybody out there with any knowledge/experience with these products ?

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Frode,

I am assuming you are mounting the heads & intake on a Cleveland engine block. Based on that assumption, I have the following advice.

The best combination is the CHI 3V cylinder head & the CHI intake manifold, machined for fuel injectors. These parts were designed by the manufacturer to work as fully integrated system. No other combination you can choose will have been designed to work together as this set of heads & intake. The CHI intake manifold has injector lugs cast into the runners, I am certain CHI can provide their intake machined for fuel injectors. The CHI heads are available with 185 cc intake port volume for 351 cubic inch applications, or with 218 cc intake port volume for high rpm or big displacement applications.

The AFD 4V head has a 4V size port with the floor of the port raised. It would be a perfect match for the Parker Funnel Web intake manifold, which has fuel injection lugs cast into the runners, there would be no need for adapters, and little to none port matching. The fuel injector lugs would simply require machining for the fuel injectors, Parker may offer the manifold already thus machined, it would be worth looking into. The intake ports of the AFD 4V head are greater in volume than even the CHI 218 cc 3V intake port, which is why I prefer the CHI 3V head for your engine.

Both the Parker Funnel Web and the CHI 3V intake manifolds are single plane, high rise manifolds that look very similar to the Edelbrock Victor manifolds you are considering.

The problem with using either Edelbrock manifold designed for the Windsor motors is that they have a water outlet housing cast into the manifold that will be unused, take up space, and look awkward. Neither manifold is a perfect match with any Cleveland cylinder head, neither manifold was designed to work with this combination of parts, and so performance potential is not optimum. It really doesn't make any sense to proceed in that direction when parts that were designed to work together are available.

My advice is to run the CHI 3V head and intake manifold, or the AFD 4V head and the Parker Funnel Web intake manifold.

your friend on the DTBB, George
Last edited by George P
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