Heads milled, does the intake need work also
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Then it needs milled for proper alignment of ports and bolts.
Would I need to take block head and intake to the machine shop then?
i have physically forced an intake manifold to bolt down to some heads I had the crap milled out of. Every machine shop I called either wouldn't mill the intake manifold or wanted an insane amount of money to do it.
I had to clearance some of the bolt holes with a dremel and then afterwards I checked the port match (it was a single plane) and luckily only a couple ports had a very slight mismatch. Not exactly the best thing for performance but the car ran very strong regardless. 305 c.i. that pulled 105 mph in the quarter with factory heads.
You might get away with no mismatch if your intake is not port matched to your heads (my manifold was)
I had to clearance some of the bolt holes with a dremel and then afterwards I checked the port match (it was a single plane) and luckily only a couple ports had a very slight mismatch. Not exactly the best thing for performance but the car ran very strong regardless. 305 c.i. that pulled 105 mph in the quarter with factory heads.
You might get away with no mismatch if your intake is not port matched to your heads (my manifold was)
