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Old 02-22-2023, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by carbking View Post
One of the three dumbest things I have done with a car since I got my first one in 1959 was blocking the cross-over on a street-driven car!

The other two?

(1) putting an electric choke on wife's car which was equipped with an automatic transmission
(2) thinking I was good enough to make a Pontiac 301 with factory turbo run with a basically stock 1970 4 cylinder Toyota

Jon
What was the result? Cold start problems?

I've always heard, and believed, that Pontiac had a superior design with the valley pan. It keeps the hot oil off of the intake manifold. Is there another reason for it? Seems to contradict the hot manifold theory. Would the hot oil make it past the target intake temp?